21st Century Fox has posted Q2 revenues of $7.68 billion (€7.18bn), up 4 per cent, and operating income of $1.99 billion, up 15 per cent, in part on the US election. CEO James Murdoch took the opportunity to speculate the company could go it alone in OTT – direct to the consumer – and already […]
Findings from an online consumer survey from digital platform security specialist Irdeto suggest that 87 per cent of Russian consumers polled believe that producing or sharing pirated video content is not against the law and 66 per cent think that streaming or downloading pirate content is also legal. This is in stark contrast to the […]
With Netflix series The Crown crowned Best Drama at the Golden Globe Awards, Roy Morgan Research reveals how many Australians have a subscription at home, how much commercial television they still watch, and why audience engagement will become the metric that matters for the broadcast networks. One in four Australian homes now have a Netflix […]
Premium on-demand video service FandangoNOW has struck a new relationship with HBO Home Entertainment to make HBO content available for purchase via digital download on FandangoNOW. Individual episodes and seasons of HBO content will join FandangoNOW’s collection of 40,000 new release and catalogue movies and TV shows. FandangoNOW is distributed on an install base of […]
French IPTV platform Free is adding two new channel bundles to its service for €2.99 each per month. The first is a Vietnamese bundle of four channels including pubcasters VTV1 (news and documentaries), VTV3 (entertainment), HTV9 (general entertainment) and NetViet/VTC10 (dedicated to ex-pats). The second is Arabic kids bouquet Telekidz that comprises of preschool networks […]
Australian streaming service Stan has agreed a content deal with Turner’s Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network is the most popular kids channel in the Asia-Pacific region, and Stan subscribers will now have access to its huge range of series. The partnership between the two entertainment brands will also see the premiere of the eighth and final […]
According to John Bird, Principal Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, the impact of on-demand on linear viewing and the rising cost of sports rights are two of the main reasons behind the well-publicised and highly acrimonious pricing row between Sky and Discovery Communications which was settled shortly before the broadcaster’s 12 thematic genre channels were set […]
BBC Radio 5 live has signed former England cricket captain Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff to host a new podcast as the station launches a series of podcast-first programmes. Flintoff is teaming up with former Premier League footballer and BBC Radio 5 live regular Robbie Savage to host a new weekly podcast starting on Monday 13 February. […]
Mediapro and La Liga have agreed a deal to stream the semi-finals of La Copa Del Rey (King’s Cup) on Facebook to 40 countries (among them the UK, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Russia, most of the countries in the Middle East, China or Australia). The Mediapro streaming signal, through Gol, will be the first Spanish TV […]
2016 was a good year for TV sets sales in France, with 6.5 million units sold. Boosted by the Euro 2016 football tournament, sales jumped by 1.4 million compared to 2015, according to figures released by GfK. Sales will decrease in 2017 with 5.3 million sold units, predicts GfK – with two thirds of sales […]