The mega-media- merger to end all mega… etc. That is until the next one comes along. Except – if it goes ahead – this really might be the last of this kind of deal. This takeover will be sold hard as a ‘traditional’ vertical integration play – a content owner and a pipes owner come […]
Pakistan’s media regulator (PEMRA) has started taking action on Indian channels being carried Pakistan’s cable operators and those selling ‘grey’ market Indian satellite STBs which are being imported into the country. BBC Monitoring is reporting that PEMRA teams have taking action against 125 cable operators and seized their illegal equipment. PEMRA Chairman Absar Alam during […]
British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat has appointed Jason Smith to the role of Chief Operations Officer (COO). Smith joins Inmarsat from Rolls-Royce, where he was most recently president of the group’s nuclear business and had previously held the roles of COO for the nuclear business, and president of the company’s submarine business. Before joining Rolls-Royce, […]
Peter Oggel, VP Product Management for Irdeto, talks about RDK and its benefits for rapid innovation and service introduction and how it can benefit all players in the ecosystem no matter how large or small. [bitsontherun vo2gBae3-hLYU43gg]
Bloomberg is reporting that media giant Time Warner (TW) is in merger talks with telco AT&T. The telco last year bought pay-TV broadcaster DirecTV, paying $49 billion for the business. The reports say that the discussions are “informal” but Bloomberg says that TW CEO Jeff Bewkes is interested in a sale at the right price. […]
Donald Trump could launch a cable or OTT news net, according to numerous reports the US – that’s assuming he doesn’t end up in the White House. Trump ran a Facebook Live event this week for the third and final presidential in what some commentators said was a dry run for a fully-fledged news channels. […]
Last week Sky delivered a somewhat ‘light’ Q1 results statement that was much criticised by the market given that many of its usual headline numbers on DTH subscriber growth (or fall) and Churn data was missing. Sky said a week ago that Q1 trading was “slower” although price increases had helped drive revenues to a […]
Technicolor has announced Q3 group revenues of €1.14 billion (versus €877 million a year ago). Frederic Rose, Chief Executive Officer of Technicolor, commented: “Our third quarter revenues have been solid as we continued to perform well and win major new awards across all our activities. We confirm our objectives for 2016 and remain strongly focused […]
The rise in advertising revenues has driven profits at TV group Atresmedia, owner of Antena 3 and La Sexta among other channels, with its 9-months profit up by 46.4 per cent to €101.5 million. The group’s revenues increased 6.1 per cent to €740.2 million with an EBITDA of €151.7 million, up 26.7 per cent. The […]
As well as signing contract this year (to date) for 293 new IMAX theatres (and including 162 new theatres in Q3), IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond told analysts Oct 20 that Imax had executed a number of agreements with partners in Western Europe such as Kinépolis, in Belgium, Cinemark in Denmark, UCI in Italy, and just […]