As it reported a big increase in its first-half net profit, Australian regional pay-TV provider Austar remains confident that the proposed merger with Foxtel will go ahead, despite the recent concerns raised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Austar chief executive John Porter indicated the transaction was expected to be completed either late […]
Following comments made July 27 by UK commercial broadcaster ITV as it reported its Interim Results that it was seeking to drive new revenue streams by exploiting its content across multiple platforms, free and pay, satellite operator SES Astra has revealed that ITV has signed a long-term agreement for satellite capacity. The agreement provides for […]
Orange reached 4.6 million subscribers for its pay-TV services in Europe by the end of the first half of 2011, having added 977,000 customers in the preceding 12 months, mostly in France and Poland. The France Telecom unit saw the TV customer base in its native country rise 28 per cent year-on-year to reach 3.9 […]
Liberty Global president and chief executive Mike Fries has criticised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over its preliminary view that Foxtel’s proposed A$1.9 billion acquisition of regional pay-TV group Austar is anti-competitive Fries, who is also Chairman of Austar, noted that Australia is the only market that does not consider pay and free-to-air […]
Petra Buchanan, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) has revealed that advertising revenues for subscription television grew by 7.4 per cent from financial years 2010 to 2011. The Ernst & Young report compiled for Astra found net ad revenues of A$180,076,820 from January 1st 2011 to June 30th 2011, which is […]
Brazil’s National Telecoms Agency says that the country now has more than 11 million pay-TV subscribers. 1.3 million net new subs were added during the first half of this year, with DTH satellite taking just over half of that total. A total of 235,000 subs were added in June alone. DTH now has 5.61 million […]
James Murdoch is likely to remain chairman of satellite company BSkyB after winning the support of the leading independent director ahead of a crunch meeting later this week. Nicholas Ferguson, Sky’s deputy chairman, is reported to have given Murdoch his backing, despite continuing questions about the role played by Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son in the […]
Spain’s pay-TV market has surpassed the 5 million-subscription mark mainly as a result of the significant growth of mobile TV. As of the end of March, the number of mobile TV subscribers grew by 28 per cent to 638,340 an amount that is added to 4,394,441 clients to the traditional pay-TV platforms, reaching a total […]
After the failure of Gioco Calcio and Dahlia TV, a third pay-TV operator could challenge the dominance of Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium in the field of Serie A football TV rights. Lega Calcio, the governing body of Italy’s professional football leagues, is seriously considering the possibility of setting up its own pay-TV operation and […]
Research firm Analysys Mason has completed its pay-TV forecasts for Europe, in which it predicts that the number of pay-TV households will increase by 12 per cent to 185.2 million between 2011 and 2016. Since 2009, connected TVs have become increasingly available and affordable as all the major consumer electronics manufacturers move to capitalise on […]