Pay-TV revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa will reach $6.22 billion in 2020, up from $3.54 billion in 2014 and $1.92 billion in 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. Excluding South Africa, pay-TV revenues will climb
Americans are now spending almost as much on smartphone and tablet entertainment as at the box office. In 2014, SNL Kagan estimates mobile entertainment generated $9.14 billion in revenue, fast approaching the roughly $10 billion per year the box office generates from ticket sales. The combined revenue from mobile games, video, music and location-based services […]
The US Netflix service will reportedly be losing all of its BBC content at the end of January. The contract with the BBC expires on February 1st, meaning that all of the titles that come to Netflix courtesy of the BBC will be immediately removed including Top Gear, Luther, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and Little […]
Waterstones, the UK’s largest bookseller, has entered exclusive talks to acquire blinkbox books from Tesco. The chain of 290 bookstores said that its current platform for selling ebooks was “antiquated” and that it needed greater control over its ebook sales. “blinkbox is a modern platform that delivers books through an app, so that you can […]
Canada’s lead cable TV operator Shaw Communications Inc reported a 7 per cent drop in first-quarter profit, hurt mainly by a fall in video subscriptions. The company’s net income fell to C$227 million ($189.72 million), for the three months ended November 30, from C$245 million. Revenue rose 2 per cent to C$1.39 billion. During the […]
Elon Musk has used some of his millions to successfully crack the rocket launching business with his SpaceX fleet of Falcon and Dragon rockets. Now it seems he wants to challenge the likes of Boeing, Airbus/Astrium, Thales-Alenia, Lockheed-Martin and Space Systems/Loral and enter the satellite building business. The 43-year-old billionaire, who made his fortune by […]
Director Spike Lee is releasing his latest film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, on Vimeo On Demand, one month before its theatrical release on February 13th. The movie, which was funded via Kickstarter, will be available to rent ($9.99 for 24 hours) or buy ($14.99). “I’m hyped on my partnership with Vimeo to get my […]
Cricket Australia, the governing body of the sport in Australia, has confirmed that Cricket.com.au has come to Apple TV, providing fans with a library of cricket videos in high definition, free of charge. Cricket Australia on Apple TV will give fans free and immediate access to the latest news and features, extended highlights from every […]
Sky is to launch Fortitude, its highly anticipated new drama, on January 29th to 20 million customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. The series is the first Sky original programme to première simultaneously across all five markets since Sky created the entertainment company late last year. In addition to its launch on […]
Iran’s INRA news agency is reporting that the country’s “morality police chief” General Muhammad Masood Zahidian has said that his force has arrested 21 people who were making satellite receivers. The police seized 640 receivers being manufactured from a total of six different small factories in Tehran and Alborz provinces. Among the detainees there were […]