OTT provision is now part of the mainstream – but is also still evolving rapidly. All TV providers, pay and FTA, now feel obliged to supply catch up and back catalogue services. Mainly they are cost centres without much prospect of becoming profit centres. What next? And where will the money come from? Advanced Television […]
Hot on the heels of announcing a global launch and the addition of 130 countries to its operations, streaming giant Netfllix is taking steps to reduce the usage of proxies that enable ‘subscribers’ to access content only available outside their licensed territory. Writing in the company blog, David Fullagar, Vice President of Content Delivery Architecture, […]
Love him or hate him – and, like most, I have a chronically schizophrenic attitude – you have to hand it to Keith Rupert Murdoch. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again: 84 years-old, three marriages down, let’s just give it one more (bets anyone?) go. Ripper. I for one don’t want to […]
Dominant telco BT has welcomed the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) decision to approve its acquisition of triple-play operator EE, unconditionally without remedies. The CMA’s decision paves the way for BT to complete the acquisition of EE in the coming weeks and to incorporate the business into the wider BT Group in the months […]
The views of 11, 583 people who responded to a public consultation on the BBC’s proposals for its future have been published by the BBC Trust. The BBC launched its ‘British, Bold, Creative’ proposals in September 2015 and the Trust committed to asking the public for their views on the plans which outline new services […]
Media giant Vivendi will unveil its latest Q4 results next month on February 18th after the market has closed for the day. Equity analysts at Deutsch Bank, in looking at Vivendi’s key divisions, say that while ‘Music’ (in the shape of Universal Music Group) has been helped by Taylor Swift’s latest album release last year […]
Indian media company Zee Entertainment Enterprises has reported a 10.9 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 275 crore (€37.1m) for the third quarter ended December 31st 2015. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 308.61 crore for the corresponding period a year ago, it said in a filing to the […]
Al Jazeera America is to close its cable TV and digital operations by April 30th of this year. According to AJAM CEO Al Anstey, the decision by the AJAM board was driven by the fact that its business model was “simply not sustainable” in light of the economic challenges in the US media marketplace. “I […]
The decision to axe the Al Jazeera America will cause significant losses at the channel, expensively launched on the back of the $500 million purchase of Current TV – a purchase that is still subject to an ongoing series of lawsuits between former vice-president Al Gore and his partners, and Al Jazeera itself. Al Jazeera […]
Portuguese left-wing party Bloco de Esquerda, which supports the socialist government of Prime Minister Antonio Costa, has submitted a draft law in Parliament for the expansion of the DTT offer. The party wants public broadcaster RTP to make available at least two more of its thematic TV channels on the free-to-air DTT platform as soon […]