Sky and HBO have extended their relationship by agreeing a new deal that will make Sky Atlantic the home of Home Box Office (HBO) for 21 million Sky customers across Europe. The agreement – the first pan-European content deal covering all Sky territories that Sky has negotiated – means that Sky will have the exclusive […]
Italy has seen a 14 per cent growth of the broadband market between 2013 and 2014, compared to a European average of 5 per cent. The figures are from the annual report on networks and next-generation services, prepared by the Rome-based Institute of Competitiveness (I-Com). As a result, Italy managed to jump one notch on […]
Hollywood studio Lionsgate is remastering its top 100 films in readiness for Ultra-HD broadcast transmissions, and for transfer to Ultra-HD Blu-ray packaged media. Steve Beeks, co-COO and president of the motion picture group, talking to analysts on Lionsgate’s November 10th financials, said that US consumers were definitely moving towards greater consumption of 4K content. “We […]
MTG has simultaneously agreed and completed the acquisition of DreamHack, one of the world’s largest esports companies. DreamHack runs both local and global esports leagues, tournaments and championships. The Scandinavian company’s seven live events in 2014 attracted a total audience of over 105,000 people, and esports fans have watched 34 million hours of DreamHack content […]
RTL Group has raised its full-year revenue guidance, bossted by the positive impact of exchange rates, its digital business and a growing German television ads market. The Europeanbroadcaster, which is controlled by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, expects annual revenue to rise by between 2.5 and 5 per cent, compared with a previous forecast for an […]
Twelve European companies feature in the 2014 ranking of the top 50 major world audiovisual groups. Five of these are Public Service Broadcasters (ARD, BBC, France Télévisions, RAI and ZDF). Even if top European companies do get a limited fraction of their revenues outside Europe, their cumulated turn-over already accounts for an increasing share of […]
International Launch Services (ILS) manages the Russian Proton rocket launch system. Proton has had more than its fair share of problems this past year or two but Nov 11 saw it receive a significant 5-launch contract from Intelsat. The deal, which runs until 2023, is a major confidence booster for ILS, and is bad news […]
There are now 2,677,000 Australians (14+) who have Netflix in the home, with the number of households with a Netflix subscription rising again in October to 1,039,000 (11.4 per cent), subscription VoD data from Roy Morgan Research shows. For the majority of Netflix subscribers, this is their first time paying for TV. In the year […]
Last month an international arbitration court awarded $672 million to Indian satellite facility company Devas. The award was judged as compensation for lost contracts with its then partner the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Now it seems the Indian government is seeking any sort of loophole in which to avoid paying the penalty. One idea […]
After the successful completion of customer and employee trials, US triple-play operator Cox Communications has launched the latest version of Contour to its customers in San Diego. The new Contour is the latest version of Cox’s premier video product which leverages the X1 platform from Comcast. In addition to the television, the cloud-based interface will […]