The reign of pay-TV and television networks as the most stable, predictable and highest-margin segments of the US media industry is rapidly eroding, Moody’s Investors Service states in a new report. OTT services and digital ad platforms such as
The FIA Formula E Championship – the electric single-seater car race series inaugurated by motorsport’s governing body – is to live-stream the 2015-16 season finale of the series in London’s Battersea Park, directly to Facebook using Grabyo. Grabyo is an official live streaming partner of Facebook, allowing rights holders to broadcast live events to the […]
ESPN Player will deliver live and on-demand coverage of the final race of the Formula E Season in London to fans in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe including Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Having raced at iconic street circuits across the globe in some of the world’s greatest cities including Beijing, Buenos […]
Research from the EBU’s Media Intelligence Service (MIS) shows that SVoD subscribers in Europe grew 56 per cent in just one year between 2014 and 2015, and are expected to reach 50 million homes by 2020. The report – Market Insights: SVoD in Europe – shows
Often criticised in the past for its reliance on deferred ‘as-live’ coverage of previous Olympic Games, the networks and digital platforms of NBCUniversal are taking advantage of a more favourable time zone to present an unprecedented 6,755 hours of programming for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this August. NBC […]
Virtual Reality is becoming part of the furniture of all media business conversations in the way that 4K did three or four years ago and 3D did seven or eight years ago. Which one will VR go on to resemble – the one that is becoming a standard for TV and marks the beginning of […]
Americans want cable TV providers to improve customer service and meet the high standards set by progressive Internet TV players, according to research commissioned by pay-TV subscription, billing and CRM specialist Paywizard. Americans are drawn to the next level of customer service that companies such as Netflix and Amazon are providing, characterised by features such […]
Content delivery network (CDN) specialist Akamai’s First Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report, which provides key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation, reveals that global average connection speed increased 12 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2015 to 6.3 Mbps, a 23 […]
Streaming entertainment specialist Roku is expanding its TV programme with the addition of Hitachi America as a new Roku TV partner. Writing in the Roku Blog, Chas Smith, SVP and general manager Roku TV & Players, says that Hitachi will take advantage of Roku’s TV reference design to build “superior” smart TVs that run the […]
Sky’s online streaming service NOW TV has launched the NOW TV Combo – the UK’s first ever contract-free triple play bundle, offering the latest and best TV, unlimited broadband as well as a range of call packages, all without a contract. Available from July, the NOW TV Combo comes complete with the brand new NOW […]