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Ofcom: UK TV industry still lacks diversity

The UK’s television industry is strongly skewed towards people from privately-educated backgrounds, according to research on the sector’s diversity from regulator Ofcom . Ofcom’s annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report examines the social and economic background of the television industry for the first time this year. It also reports on companies’ progress in […]

September 18, 2019

Report: Canadian content travels best

Television content produced or co-produced in Canada has the highest rate of global travelability –  the ability for local content to attract audience demand outside of the country where it was originally produced and aired –  compared to any other market, according to research conducted by Parrot Analytics on behalf of the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Canadian content achieved […]

September 18, 2019

Slow progress for TV penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Among the 215 million households in the sub-Saharan African region, around 102 million have access to television in 2018, according to figures from Dataxis. Even though the penetration is progressing, reaching 42 per cent in 2018 up from 40 per cent in 2017, television still has a long way to go before being fully penetrated […]

September 18, 2019

Analysis: How the new SVoDs will use original content

A profile of six new SVoD players launching in the American market from late 2019 to the first half of 2020 has just been published by Ampere Analysis. Four of these new players are studio-led: Disney+, Viacom’s BET+, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCU’s streaming service. Only Apple TV+ and short-form start-up Quibi are new to […]

September 17, 2019

Forecast: Online viewing to reach 100 mins a day

The average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, up from 84 minutes this year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report. That’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. The amount of time people spend viewing online video has grown rapidly across the world, […]

September 17, 2019

Analyst: 5G hits the ground running

The 5G market is developing much more quickly than the previous generation 4G LTE standard, with a total 31 5G commercial service launches globally by the end of the second quarter of 2019, according to IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech. Amid a burst of launches in the second quarter, the […]

September 17, 2019

2019 Cricket World Cup most watched ICC event ever

The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 was the most watched ICC event ever, with a global cumulative average audience of 1.6 billion for live coverage, a 38 per cent increase over the 2015 edition and a unique broadcast audience of 706 million viewers, demonstrating the phenomenal reach and power of live cricket around the […]

September 17, 2019

Research: Loving Brits share house keys before Netflix passwords

From saying “I love you” for the first time, to moving in together and starting a family, couples progress through a series of milestones that show increasing amounts of commitment. But now there’s a new landmark for loyalty – the day you’re prepared to hand over your Netflix password. New research from property sellers’ website […]

September 17, 2019

Kagan: Netflix disrupts South Korean media ecosystem

Netflix entered South Korea in January 2016 with few established partnerships and minimal local content. The streaming giant has since devoted significant investment to creating award-winning local original content that has disrupted the South Korean media ecosystem, reports Kagan, a research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence The parents of Pooq and Oksusu have decided […]

September 16, 2019

FTTH boosts pay-TV subs in Portugal

Portugal reached nearly 4 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of the first half of 2019, a growth of 2.3 per cent year-on-year and accounting for a 86 per cent penetration rate. Data published by the National Communications Authority reveals that the growth was boosted by the FTTH technology, which added 298,000 subscribers since H1 […]

September 13, 2019From Branislav Pekic in Rome