UK marketing technology company, Rocket Fuel, studied the lift in ad impressions they saw on Christmas day during the ad breaks of the most popular TV shows of the day. The Coronation Street Christmas Day episode was the most popular commercial TV programme of the day with 6.41 million tuning. Rocket Fuel, utilising data provided […]
Amazon Studios has revealed that it will begin to produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Whereas it typically takes 39 to 52 weeks for theatrical movies to premiere on subscription video services, Amazon Original Movies will première on Prime Instant Video in the US […]
Kenya’s free-to-air national broadcasters have long complained about the ‘theft’ of their terrestrial signals by the country’s two pay-TV operators, GoTV and StarTimes. The argument became extremely heated in 2014 when the FIFA World Cup signals were re-transmitted by the two pay-TV players. Now, three broadcasters Standard Media Grp (which broadcasts the Kenya TV Network, […]
TF1 is set to sub-license the French rights to 29 out of the 48 rugby matches of the upcoming 2015 UK World Cup it exclusively holds to pay-TV channel Canal+ The free TV channel will keep all the French national team matches as well as the two semi-finals and the final. TF1 auctioned the rights […]
BBC Monitoring is reporting that Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regulator Authority (PEMRA) has approved the cancellation of 425 cable TV licences across the country. PEMRA made the decision at a meeting on January 16th. PEMRA says many of the licences were dormant, or were in default. “There were total of 3,600 PEMRA licensed cable operators across […]
Chile’s pay-TV market wrapped its Q3/2014 in a very healthy condition. According to Chile’s Telecommunications ministry (SubTel) the country enjoyed 48.6 per cent of homes subscribing to pay-TV. Some 2.8 million homes are viewing pay-TV, and growth is at 0.76 per cent/quarter. Satellite DTH is now the leading service provider with 1.42 million subscribers (a […]
Following reports that the US Netflix service and the BBC were parting ways, the streaming service has clarified that many of its most popular British series are staying put. Shows that will still be available on Netflix are classic and current Doctor Who series, Luther, Top Gear, Torchwood, Wallander, Keeping Up Appearances, and the original The Office and House of […]
O3b, the satellite-by-broadband constellation that aims to reach ‘the other 3 billion’ people who have little or no access to Internet services, has added some important Pacific clients. It is now saying that O3b is the largest provider of satellite capacity over the Pacific region. Norfolk Telecom, situated halfway between Australia and New Zealand, and […]
Pay-TV technology specialist Motive Television is to begin integrating Google’s Chromecast technology into Motive’s TabletTV apps. This will make it possible for TabletTV users who have the popular Chromecast thumb-sized media streaming devices to send what they are viewing on their tablets directly to the home TV screen. When using TabletTV and Chromecast, TabletTV users […]
Al Jazeera Americas (AJA) is to completely rework its entire broadcast schedule. Out will go the hour-long special documentary and speciality programmes to be replaced with rolling live newscasts. Trade magazine Variety is reporting that a memo issued to all staff on January 16th said that “News is at the heart of Al Jazeera and […]