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Venezuela sees record pay-TV growth

Pay-TV subscriptions in Venezuela are growing at a very healthy 12.8 per cent annually, according to the country’s National Telecommunications Commission. As at July 31st Venezuela had 2,931 million subs, up 336,000 on the same period a year ago. This means that pay-TV penetration now stands at 41.32 per cent of TV households, whereas a […]

August 7, 2012By Chris Forrester

17m use BBC Red Button for Olympics

The BBC Sport website has seen an 80 per cent rise in users, with Olympics webpages attracting a peak of nearly 8 million readers natively and 10.4 million globally. The website has received 29 million requests for its Olympics interactive video streams, with a clip of Bradley Wiggins winning his gold medal seeing 729,000 requests […]

August 6, 2012

Two thirds of wi-fi users face service problems

Nearly two thirds (62 per cent) of wi-fi users in the UK are experiencing problems with their wi-fi signal, with 63 per cent suffering from slow speeds, according to new research from Ofcom-accredited comparison site Broadbandchoices.co.uk. In a study that questioned over 2,000 Brits, a further 32 per cent complained that their connection keeps dropping […]

August 6, 2012

Half of Mumbai households have STBs

With the deadline for conversion of cable system to digital format in four metros ending on October 31st, just half of households in Mumbai have been covered with STBs. A review by the I&B Ministry has revealed that 50 per cent of cable TV homes in the metropolis have already been installed with STBs. While […]

August 6, 2012

TivùSat: 55,000 smart card activations in July

During the month of July, Italian DTH platform TivùSat activated 55,316 new smart cards, reaching a total of 1,576,685 active cards. The regions that registered the highest number of smart card activations in July were Sicily, Lombardy, Lazio and Calabria. TivùSat viewers can currently access 55 TV and 40 radio channels, including the main services […]

August 3, 2012From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Nielsen: TV still major player despite evolving options

As new ways to consume media give viewers greater choice of how, when, and where to watch, an old standby – the television – is making headway in the race for market cachet, according to a blog post from Pat McDonough, Nielsen’s SVP Insights, Analysis and Policy. According to Nielsen, Americans spend 35 hours each […]

August 2, 2012

100m Latino pay-TV subs by 2017

Proof that the Latin American market is looking increasingly like a Gold Mine comes from researchers Dataxis, which forecasts that by 2017 the Latin American pay-TV market will have grown to some 97 million subscribing homes. This number, already attractive enough, is based on the seven largest Latino markets, suggesting that the true total will […]

August 2, 2012By Chris Forrester

IPTV subscribers to triple

The number of homes paying for IPTV is predicted to rocket to 165 million by end-2017, up from 51 million at end-2011 and from only 7.5 million at end-2007, according to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR). The Global IPTV Forecasts report estimates that China will supply 77 million (47 per cent) of […]

August 1, 2012

Connected TVs to reach 650m by 2017

A report from Juniper Research forecasts that the number of residential TVs, connected to the Internet via different platforms such as Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and consoles, and also via built in wireless or Ethernet connectivity, will reach almost 650 million by 2017. The report finds that Smart TVs are becoming mainstream amongst consumers, similar […]

August 1, 2012

Netflix suffers sharp decline in approval rating

According to new research from TDG, Netflix is experiencing a significant decline in satisfaction among its streaming users. “The impact of its ill-conceived price and packaging change of late 2011 continue to resonate today,” notes Michael Greeson, TDG Founding Partner and Director of Research. TDG notes that in mid-2011, two-thirds of Netflix streamers were highly […]

August 1, 2012