UK comms and entertainment provider TalkTalk has revealed its best ever results for mobile, TV and fibre. Between September and December, 115,000 more homes signed up to TalkTalk TV, 50,000 took mobile and 88,000 signed up to fibre. The number of overall broadband customers increased by 15,000, while the number of customers choosing to leave […]
Netflix has unveiled plans to offer $1.5 billion in senior notes and plans to use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes, which may include content acquisitions, capital expenditures, investments, working capital and potential acquisitions and strategic transactions.” The company originally said it would raise $1 billion but then later increased the offering to $1.5 billion, […]
As widely anticipated, Sky Sports will offer exclusively live coverage of The Open from 2017 thanks to a new five year partnership with The R&A, in a move that sees coverage move from free-to-air coverage on the BBC after nearly 60 years to pay-TV. Sky Sports has been awarded the exclusive live rights to golf’s […]
The number of pay-TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa will double between 2010 and 2020 to 21.3 million, according to a new 208-page report from Digital TV Research. Turkey will account for 37 per cent of the 2020 total. According to the fourth edition of Digital TV Middle East & North Africa […]
NBC has revealed that the Patriots 28-24 last-second victory over the Seattle Seahawks drew an average audience of 114.4 million viewers on Sunday. This makes Super Bowl XLIX the most watched broadcast in US TV history. Sunday’s total was up from last year’s 112.2 million viewers — the largest recorded TV audience at the time. […]
SeaChange, the video software and services specialist, has revealed it will cut 10 per cent of its global work force as part of an effort to streamline operations that will result in annualised cost savings of around $11 million when completed. SeaChange said it implemented the workforce reduction in the US and, in order to comply […]
The deployment of FTTH networks is breaking records in Spain with a growth of 151.7 per cent in connections year-on-year. The latest figures from the competition regulator CNMC reveals that in November FTTH connections increased by 108,797 lines, up 151.7 per cent, to reach a total of 1.45 million. FTTH already represents 11 per cent […]
Sony Pictures Digital Productions, which looks after Sony’s 4K post-production Colorworks unit, is selling the division to rival DeLuxe. Colorworks is a 14,000 sq ft Stage 6 facility based in Sony’s giant Culver City studio complex. Terms of the deal, which closed February 1st, were not revealed. Sony’s Colorworks has been extremely busy remastering many […]
The past few years have not been kind to the world’s ‘Big 3’ satellite operators (Intelsat, SES and Eutelsat) because of severe cutbacks by the US government on satellite spending. The US has trimmed its spend (sequestration), in particular on the amount being spent on commercial satellites. However, President Barrack Obama, in his new budget […]
Some might call the move shrewd, and others might suggest it’s crafty, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking that its chairman Tom Wheeler rule on whether Dish Network is entitled to claim a $3 billion discount in its final bids last week totalling $13.3 billion in the FCC’s wireless AWS-3 spectrum auction. Any […]