Having reported on the many challenges facing satellite operator Intelsat over this past year, it is refreshing to report a massive 11.5 per cent jump (35c) in its share price on April 19th, to $3.49. Intelsat releases its quarterly numbers next week on April 28th, and perhaps investors are buoyed by the likelihood of good […]
The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) and the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) have unveiled two new technical specifications for the delivery of finished air-ready programmes for North America. Through joint NABA and DPP meetings, nine of the major North American broadcasters – ABC/Disney, Bell Media, CBC/Radio-Canada, Fox, HBO, NBCUniversal, PBS, Time Warner and Turner – […]
Netflix has unveiled its Q1, saying it had added a global net increase of 6.47 million subscribers during the quarter. This was better than its previous ‘best ever’ quarter (Q2/2015) when it added 5.59 million net new subs. US growth was 2.23 million, and helping Netflix’s overall global subs base to 81.5 million. Most of […]
According to S&P Global Market Intelligence estimates, a group of 12 US companies could generate almost $7 billion in an 84 MHz clearing scenario, or up to $13 billion in a lofty 120 MHz scenario — if the execution of the auction aligns with the FCC’s vision. The 12 companies are CBS, Comcast, Univision, 20th […]
CityFibre made a first profit as the fibre broadband group benefits from demand for alternatives to BT’s Openreach network. The AIM listed company builds and operates fibre optic networks for customers such as Vodafone to help connect mobile calls and provide broadband. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, moved into profit in the […]
The white paper that will set out the future of the BBC will be published in May, according to culture minister Ed Vaizey. Referring to earlier reports about UKTV he said it was “perfectly appropriate within the white paper process to look at what the BBC does in a quasi-commercial fashion”. The government is considering […]
Com Hem, the Swedish telco, has reported Q1 revenue totalled SEK 1,276m (1,228), up 3.9 per cent. The number of unique consumer subscribers rose 9,000 to a total of 920,000. There was a continued strong volume growth in broadband, up 11,000 to 669,000 RGUs. Digital-TV RGU’s totalled 635,000, affected by price adjustments in the quarter, […]
Novra Technologies and International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) have announced that their Board of Directors have approved a merger agreement for IDC to merge with Novra. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Novra will acquire 100 per cent of the issued and outstanding common shares of IDC for total purchase consideration of approximately $1.9 million. “The […]
Following Present Obama’s call for the FCC to open up set-top cable boxes to competition, two influential lobbying bodies have unsurprisingly queried the White House’s intervention. According to Digital Citizens Alliance Executive Director Tom Galvin. it is “simply bewildering” that President Obama would come out in support of the FCC’s proposal to change the way […]
The UK government is to order BBC to sell its 50 per cent stake in cable and satellite programmer UKTV, according to the Sunday Times, which usually has impeccable links with government “sources”. It is understood that John Whittingdale, the Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, will make provision for such a sale in a White […]