Netflix and Hulu signed a deal with Mediacom allowing the US cable company to provide streaming services from both firms to its consumers. Mediacom is a supplier of video, phone and Internet services, with 1.3 million users across 22 US states. Netflix will be made available as an app on TiVo set-top boxes. The addition […]
Tata Communications has unveiled its new video network partnership with China Telecom Global to enable and manage media content for customers in China and globally. The partnership, which began with the successful delivery of the 2015 World Figure Skating Championship from Shanghai to Japan, enables China Telecom Global to leverage the global reach of Tata […]
Euro Media Group (EMG) has confirmed the acquisition of Broadcast RF (BRF), a leading RF service supplier. This acquisition consolidates EMG’s leadership in providing RF solutions for major events around the world. Broadcast RF is Europe’s leading source of RF technology for use in the making of television programmes, covering sports, news and light entertainment […]
RR Media, a leading provider of global digital media services to the broadcast industry, has announced that it has completed the restoration of Aardman’s classic series, The Amazing Adventures of Morph. The fully re-mastered series is being launched exclusively on Morph’s YouTube channel. It follows intense interest in Morph after a successful Kickstarter crowdfunder campaign raised […]
TiVo – which recently acquired certain assets of outlawed and bankrupt OTA service Aereo – has released the findings of an in-depth survey of Over The Air (OTA) TV consumers revealing that a materially higher percentage of cord cutters are coming from former satellite TV service subscribers. “The data we’ve collected shows a clear trend […]
A report from tech research company Technavio draws attention towards the increasing popularity of 4K TVs, which is presenting growth opportunities for broadcast and media organisations worldwide. Technavio expects the global ultra HD TV market to grow at a CAGR of 45 per cent from 2015-2019 “Netflix offers 4K ultra-HD
Virgin Media’s broadband subscriber numbers have increased from 4,625,800 in the previous quarter, to 4,969,700 in the first quarter of this year (40,200 of which are still on ADSL rather than cable0 – up 7 per cent. Of those 4.9 million net subscribers, Liberty-owned Virgin reports that 36 per cent are on 100Mbps or faster […]
John Malone’s Liberty Global saw its Q1 revenues numbers decline 1.5 per cent to $4.51 billion (€4bn) and not helped by higher churn in Germany and a net gain of a “decidedly weak” 35,000 subs according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies. In particular the analysts pointed out that Germany had suffered losses in housing […]
A study by Sandvine shows a preference for legal streaming over piracy. “People are shifting their activities and they’ve certainly embraced streaming video,” says Dan Deeth, head of media at Sandvine, a company that tracks home Internet usage. According to its latest report,
“The government is causing serious harm to the TV industry”, says UTECA The Administrations’s TV policy is under fire. The private TV Association, UTECA, which represents the largest FTA TV groups in Spain, has accused the government of “causing serious harm” to the Audio Visual industry which represents a business of €10,300 million (1 per […]