After experiencing a slight decline in revenue in the past two quarters, UPC is back on course for growth in Switzerland in the third quarter. Revenue increased to CHF 340 million (€292m) in Q3 2017 – a year-on-year increase of 1.2 per cent. The number of fixed network and Mobile subscriptions increased by 14,000 in […]
Cisco Systems is reportedly looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape. Bloomberg is quoting people familiar with the process, adding that Cisco is looking to sharpen its focus in the extremely fast-changing network infrastructure business. Cisco paid around $5 billion for NDS back in 2012. Cisco sold the former […]
Ian Katz, currently Editor of Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship daily news and current affairs programme, has been appointed Director of Programmes by UK Commercial public service broadcaster, a surprise move given his relative inexperience in the TV industry, having only been in his post since 2013 following previous roles in the newspaper industry. Katz, previously Deputy […]
The UK’s Communications Providers have welcomed the ambition of Openreach, the infrastructure subsidiary of BT, to build a large-scale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the country, with the company’s CEO suggesting that it could build FTTP connections to ten million homes and businesses by the mid-2020s. There is also broad agreement that FTTP would safeguard the […]
Revenues lost to online piracy will nearly double between 2016 and 2022 to $51.6 billion (€44.5bn), according to the Online TV Piracy Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. Covering 138 countries, these forecasts include revenues lost to TV episodes and movies – but not other sectors such as sports or pay-TV. “Piracy will never be […]
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the head of beIN Sports Media, spent a reported eight hours talking to Swiss prosecutors on October 26th over alleged corruption and bribery claims between Qatar-based beIN and FIFA’s officials over TV rights to the 2022 football World Cup tournament scheduled to be held in Qatar. Al-Khelaifi faces charges that allege links with […]
International TV and broadband company Liberty Global has announced that Balan Nair, currently Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for the company, will assume the position of President and CEO of its Latin American and Caribbean operation once the split-off from Liberty Global occurs, which is expected around the end of 2017. Nair brings to his […]
Asia Broadcast Satellite’s co-founder and CEO Tom Choi has stepped down from the company. Choi said it was time for him to step and move on to other interesting projects, but that he would continue to sit on the company’s Board of Directors and he remains a significant investor in the company. Choi initially released […]
A+E Networks has appointed TV and film industry veteran Richard Tulk-Hart as Managing Director, International Content Sales. Based in London, Tulk-Hart will manage all of A+E Networks’ content distribution and format licensing activities outside the US. Working with the company’s sales teams around the world, he will oversee a staff based in Korea, London, Los […]
4K UHD is technology that has developed in an asymmetric manner – which is typical. It will soon be impossible to buy a non-UHD large-scale TV, and penetration around the world is accelerating, led by China where six competing makers are driving low cost supply. This means a market ready to watch 4K – and […]