Asia dominates worldwide Pay TV, accounting for slightly more than 50 per cent of subscribers in 2010, reports In-Stat. China alone will encompass 26.3 per cent of the total, followed by the rest of Asia Pacific at 22.3 per cent, North America 15.3 per cent and W. Europe 15.6 per cent. While IPTV grew faster […]

Singapore's future as a regional media hub is under threat as a result of new government rules for the pay-TV industry, according to the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), which represents the interests of 130 content producers, pay-TV platform operators and equipment-and-service suppliers across 16 Asian markets. According to CASBAA, the latest […]

Despite talk of 'chord cutting', a report released at NCTA shows a new record of almost 100 million Americans were paying for premium TV services at the end of 2009. SNL Kagan, in partnership with MediaBiz, has released a report on the US multichannel video market, which analyses subscriber counts, penetration and operator performance nationwide […]

Sky Deutschland is targeting a rise of 400,000 subscribers in the next twelve months as it aims to reach profitability but the News Corp owned platform lost 1,000 subscribers in Q1 this year. Chief executive Brian Sullivan briefed investors that it was looking to grow its subs base from 2.47 million to 2.8 million in […]

Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, has been selected by DISH Network to provide adaptive streaming, virtual DVD-like “trick play” and digital rights management (DRM) for the pay-TV provider's TV Everywhere service. Widevine's video optimisation and DRM platform will ensure that DISH Network customers viewing their live and on demand shows throughout the home […]

A report from Media Partners Asia forecasts that digital TV subscriptions will double and account 70 per cent of the total by 2014 and 82 per cent by 2020, up from just 34 per cent by the end of 2009, or 116 million. The report, Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2010, says that in […]

TeliaSonera has reported it had 823,000 customers for its pay-TV services across all markets by the end of the first quarter of 2010, up 135,000 during the period, with 633,000 of the total being IPTV subscribers. Nearly 27 per cent of its broadband base across all markets now subscribe to its IPTV services, available in […]

Eircom ‘s wish to bring in pay-TV are fading as telco’s One Vision consortium apparently reached the end of the line in its crucial negotiations with RTE’s networks division. The consortium has spent almost a year locked in negotiations with RTE in a bid to secure a transmission contract for the pay TV part of […]

An estimated 800,000 US households stopped their cable, satellite or telco TV subscription services last year, a number that could double to 1.6 million by the end of 2011, according to a study from Convergence Consulting Group. The report found that 17 per cent of the weekly TV audience watches at least one or two […]

From Colin Mann in Cannes Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive of BSkyB, delivered a robust defence of the satellite operator's business model and role in content value, as well as a strong attack on regulatory intervention in a Media Mastermind keynote speech at MIPTV. Identifying three key threats to the economics of content – piracy, commoditisation […]