Top Gear UK may be out of production but is continuing to sell around the world, as BBC Worldwide announces that Italy is the latest country to license the format. Produced by Toro Media (a Sony Picture Television Company) for SKY Italia, Top Gear Italia will air in 2016 on Sky Uno, the pay-TV platform’s […]
Scripps Networks UK & EMEA has announced the switch to MPEG4 compression that will follow with the launch of Polsat Food Network HD, the global food, entertainment and lifestyle brand, and Travel Channel HD, the global travel broadcaster, on Cyfrowy Polsat, the largest provider of pay-TV and integrated multimedia services in Poland. The Polsat Food […]
Ultra HD programming is expected to see strong take-up rates globally, with failure to invest now will mean a failure to tap into its growing premium revenues, according to Alan Crisp, Analyst at satellite industry market research and consulting services firm NSR. Writing in NSR’s ‘Bottom Line’ Blog, Crisp says
A number of the six major film studios named by the European Commission as having licensing agreements with Sky UK that may be in breach of EU competition rules have responded to the EC’s ‘Statement of Objections’, with Disney saying the impact of the Commission’s analysis was “destructive of consumer value”, and confirming it would […]
Italian football fans are set to get an Internet TV channel dedicated to the Serie A professional football league. Serie A TV will commence broadcasting on August 22nd, with the start of the new football season in Italy, reports daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. The channel will be operated by the Lega Calcio (Football League), through […]
AT&T lost 22,000 U-verse TV subscribers in Q2, compared to 190,000 net adds in the same quarter a year ago. The US telco, which ended Q2 with 5.97 million video subs, blamed typical “seasonality” over cord-cutting, alongside the decision to target promotions to more profitable, higher-value subscribers. “On the U-verse video side, the first point […]
As reported yesterday, Cisco has agreed to sell its set-top box and cable modem business to Technicolor. Three months ago Arris announced that it was to acquire Pace. If both deals are approved and go ahead, there will be a change in the leadership of the video infrastructure market, with Arris taking over from Cisco […]
SES has signed agreements for a further three UHD channels to be launched by the end of the year, and these are in addition to the 4K service already announced for Sky Deutschland and a shopping channel (pearl.tv) scheduled to launch in September. CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh, in the SES half-year financial statement, said that […]
In a further consolidation of the Spanish cable market, Basque Country-based operator Euskaltel has bought Galician R Cable for €1.155 billion to create a large regional cable group in the north of Spain – with the companies retaining their own brands – with a network of 725,000 km and over 715,000 subscribers. Euskaltel has offered […]
It seems investor confidence in satellite operator Intelsat is evaporating. There has been a steady fall in the company’s Common stock share price, and Thursday (July 23rd) was no better with a fall of 3.34 per cent to an all-time historic low point of just $7.82. A week ago it stood at $8.70. On October […]