Advanced Television

Rights deals boost Premier League clubs

Revenue for the world’s 20 highest earning football clubs reached €6.2 billion (£5.2bn) last season, up €800 million (£669m) (14 per cent) on the previous year, according to the 18th edition of the Football Money League from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Dan Jones, Partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said:

January 22, 2015By Colin Mann

Polsat to launch global channel

Polish TV broadcaster Polsat is looking to create new channels including a “global” channel for expat Polish viewers around the world. The broadcaster has applied to the Broadcasting Council KRRiT, Poland’s regulator, for a new transmission licence for a Poland World channel. Currently the broadcaster offers Polsat-2 to overseas viewers in the USA, Australia and […]

January 22, 2015By Chris Forrester

Tele Columbus shares priced at €10

Tele Columbus has set the offer price for shares for its IPO at €10 per share . The offer price is therefore at the mid-point of the price range from €8 to €12 per share. The offering was well oversubscribed at the offer price. A total of 51,022,500 shares will be placed, comprising 33.3 million […]

January 22, 2015

Russia media law will hit foreign broadcasters

Following Turner Broadcasting and Sweden’s MTG exiting Russia because of its tough new rules on foreign ownership, a report from IHS Technology says a number of other non-Russian broadcasters will find the going tough because of the 20 per cent cap now in place. IHS says that besides Raduga (a joint venture with MTG and […]

January 22, 2015By Chris Forrester

Fox consolidates all non-US channels

On February 9th, Fox International Channels (FIC) it will consolidate all of its 126 Fox channels outside the US under a single brand positioning and network package.  This worldwide simultaneous rebranding will take place in conjunction with the return of Fox’s international hit The Walking Dead. Excluding the US, Fox entertainment reaches 244 million households […]

January 22, 2015By Nik Roseveare

Record-breaking 2014 for iPlayer

BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio saw a record-breaking 3.5 billion TV and radio programme requests in 2014 – up from 3.1 billion in 2013, with over 2.6 billion TV requests and over 860 million radio requests across all devices. The much-anticipated return

January 22, 2015

Court Orders cut pirate traffic

A report compiled by Incopro, commissioned by the Motion Picture Association – the international trade association working for major companies that invest in, produce, distribute and market film and TV content in the UK – has revealed that copyright infringing websites subject to site blocking Court Orders by the main ISPs have lost nearly three-quarters […]

January 22, 2015By Colin Mann

Irdeto: Video gaming imposes on TV consumption

Irdeto has launched its Eye on 2020 report, a series of predictions over the next five years covering trends that will impact the broadcast and content industries, including the connected home, piracy, platform expectations and future differentiators. In what is set to be a make or break time for operators looking to flourish and as […]

January 22, 2015

Kenya revokes local licences

Three Kenyan broadcasters are having their digital TV licences revoked, and the frequencies confiscated because they have allegedly been broadcasting misleading advertising on the platforms owned and operated by Chinese-backed StarTimes and Multichoice’s GOtv pay-TV operations. The three local broadcasters are each major media players locally, and include Royal Media Services, Nation Media Group and […]

January 22, 2015By Chris Forrester

Gambling, adult sites sponsor Indonesian piracy

Research released at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View 2015 conference explored funding links between the banned gambling and pornography industries, and the online piracy websites they use to attract young viewers. During a panel discussion titled, “Following the Money: Who is profiting

January 22, 2015