German pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland has secured the exclusive live broadcasting rights for the FIA Formula E Championship, the electric single-seater car race series inaugurated by motorsport’s governing body . Sky will broadcast live all races of the series, which begins in Beijing on 13 September. Apart from the exclusive TV broadcasting rights, the agreement […]
Vivendi has picked Telefonica for exclusive talks over the sale of its Brazilian broadband unit GVT, spurning a rival bid from Telecom Italia. Telefonica will fold GVT into its Brazilian mobile phone carrier Vivo to create the country’s biggest telecom group. It will then use GVT’s pay-TV and broadband know-how and its broad network to […]
BT Sport is to televise extensive highlights of all 10 rounds of the 2014/2015 FIA Formula E Championship in the UK, joining ITV – which has the live rights – in providing coverage of the electric single-seater car race series inaugurated by motorsport’s governing body. In a deal brokered by the international media company MP […]
New subscribers to Sky Italia’s pay-TV bundle are this week being tempted with a ‘free’ Philips-branded home theatre system. Sky Italia’s lowest-priced bundle costs just €19 a month, so the deal could prove tempting for football fans keen to view – and hear – Sky’s coverage in Surround Sound. This is not the first time […]
Argentina’s Grupo Clarin is to sell its 7 cable TV channels to a US investment firm for $31.5 million. The move is part of its retreat from some aspects of its business as dictated by Argentina’s media laws. The offer has to be approved by shareholders (due on September 22nd). The potential buyer is 34 […]
Dubai-based OSN (Orbit Showtime Network) is to take Abu Dhabi Media’s (ADM) HD subscription channels and offer them to its subscribers effective September 1st. The offer includes the new Abu Dhabi Drama+, and ADM’s sports channels. David Butorac, chief executive of OSN, said: “The addition of Abu Dhabi Media’s pay channels, leaders in the region’s […]
The global market for conditional access (CA) technology used in STBs is set to contract as pay-TV services reach saturation, according to IHS Technology. Worldwide market revenue for pay-TV STB CA technology will decline to $1.9 billion in 2018, down from a peak of $2.2 billion in 2015. CA is defined as any method or […]
Sky Sports won the ratings battle against BT Sport on the opening weekend of Premier League season. The game between Arsenal and Crystal Palace was available to watch for free to all Sky subscribers as part of a special promotion for the opening Saturday of the season. The coverage peaked with 2.2 million (13.5 per […]
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer division, has suggested the telco is in a stronger position to secure further English Premier League football coverage when the next bidding round starts, possibly in early 2015. Speaking to the UK’s Sunday Telegraph, Petter says that two “big things” have changed since it won the rights to 38 […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) found that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 300,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2014, compared to a loss of about 350,000 video subscribers in Q2 2013. The top pay-TV providers account for