Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has rejected a proposal by DTT network operator Altice Portugal for a simulcast period during the switch from the existing 700 MHz frequency to a new multi-frequency network. Speaking to journalists, Altice Portugal CEO Alexandre Fonseca said that the migration of more than 200 DTT transmitters will take six-to-nine months, […]
Liberty Global reported sales from continuing operations down 0.9 per cent in the second quarter as it shed 29,000 cable subs versus a gain of 41,000 in year ago quarter. There were net losses of 5,000 at Virgin Media in the UK, 20,000 at Telenet in Belgium and 28,000 at UPC Switzerland, offset by a […]
Indian pay-TV giant Dish TV had a solid day on the Bombay stock exchange August 7th, rising almost 5 per cent, and helped by numerous reports that an expected merger with rival Bharti Airtel Digital TV was very much on track. Most reports suggest that Airtel/Warburg would end up with some 20 per cent of […]
Italy’s premier football league, Lega Serie A, is taking action against audiovisual piracy, which it describes as “a criminal act” and an increasing plague in recent years, all over the world and in particular in Italy, calculating only that the incidence of piracy among adults in the country exceeds 60 per cent. The league intends […]
A comprehensive review of the US C-band segment and its restructuring prospects has been issued by Northern Sky Research (C-Band Repurposing for 5G: Impacts and Analysis). The NSR report suggests that the upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision on the proposed realignment of 180 MHz of spectrum will be mostly favourable. NSR says that following […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Group increased its revenues by 4 per cent to €947 million (previous year: €912m). The organic revenue increase also came in at 4 per cent. This was driven by growth in the Content Production & Global Sales and Commerce segments, which more than compensated for the weaker development in the Entertainment segment: Content Production […]
Essel Group, which is the holding company of the Zee media empire, has sold an 11 per cent stake in Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd to Invesco, for $635 million (€567.7m). There had been considerable speculation that a bid from a Comcast-led consortium which included James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems plus investment houses Atarios and Blackstone Grp, […]
Sky Studios has acquired a 24.9 per cent stake in True to Nature (TTN), a UK’s producer of natural history programmes. Bristol-based TTN was founded in 2016 by former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, Dr Wendy Darke. Despite only being three years old, TTN is already delivering a number of premium factual series […]
Competitive access to spectrum resources will result in a thriving fixed and mobile marketplace that can deliver new, innovative services, according to Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) President Martha Suárez. Speaking at the TVWS workshop in Buenos Aires, co-organised by the DSA – a global organisation advocating for laws and regulations that will lead to more […]
Discovery has reported Q2 revenues of $2.8 billion (€2.5bn) increased 1 per cent compared with the prior year’s quarter, as a 5 per cent increase in US Networks revenues was partially offset by a 3 per cent decrease in International Networks revenues and a significant decrease in Other revenues due to the sale of the […]