Erik Huggers, Director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC has described maintaining an open and neutral Internet as “absolutely crucial” to the Corporation’s ability to deliver services. He told delegates at the FT Conference that certain ISPs had at one stage implemented traffic management that had severely affected the quality of users’ iPlayer […]
Europe Media Port (EMP), has been named the world’s fastest growing teleport for the second consecutive year by the World Teleport Association (WTA), the industry’s professional organisation. Europe Media Port partners directly with satellite operators and teleport facilities around the world to provide diverse end-to-end solutions to the satellite service market. “Europe Media Port was […]
Vivendi’s Canal Plus pay- television unit faces a continued probe by France’s competition authority into exclusive deals, the regulator has confirmed. The investigation focuses on Canal Plus’s distribution practices for its ‘in house’ channels, certain deals for linked channels, and contracts between Canal Plus and independent channels, the regulator said in a statement on its […]
French pay TV provider Canal Plus had revenues of €3.364 billion for the nine months to the end of September, up 2.9 per cent year-on-year, on the back of a rising ad market and adding 248,000 net subs in the home market. EBITA was €760 million, up from €754 million a year earlier. Parent company […]
Increasingly, the main reason people watch on-demand TV is to avoid falling behind with the linear TV schedules, which have been attracting record viewing figures in recent years, according to research published by Thinkbox and Decipher. The ‘Tellyport’ research questioned a sample of 3,000 people in the UK and employed a mixture of quantitative and […]
ITV has reported an 11 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 to £1.45 billion (€1.71bn) and forecast that the TV advertising recovery will continue until the end of the year. The commercial broadcaster said it expected TV ad revenues to be up 10 per cent year on year […]
Kabel Deutschland (KDG) added 127,300 digital premium pay TV subscribers in the year to September 30 for a total of 1,135,300. ARPU reached €13.08 for its fiscal second quarter, up from €11.88 a year earlier. In the quarter KDG added 64,000 internet and phone customers, taking the company’s total to 1.21 million. The company’s overall […]
On the heels of buying the BBC out of its international business, Discovery now seems the favourite to buy UKTV from Virgin Media. The channel line up has been on the block for some time, and not for the first time, but reports say the same old problems in closing a deal persist: the complexity […]
A study released by Nielsen has highlighted the 21st century TV-viewing habits of consumers who are watching shows or movies from the Internet on their TV sets. Specifically, it reveals that 84 per cent of these viewers report that they are watching the same, or more, regularly scheduled TV since they started streaming or downloading […]
Egypt’s Nilesat, fresh from the success of launching its Nilesat 201 satellite, and despite taking a long-term capacity from near-neighbour Eutelsat, is also looking for an additional orbital position to allow for further business expansion. Nilesat’s orbital ‘hot spot’ is already home to some 572 channels. Nilesat’s chief engineer Salah Hamza says: “It is a […]