In announcing its results for the first quarter to June 30th, UK telco BT has revealed that its TV customer base continues to grow with TV net adds of 8,000 taking its base to 1.8 million with all customers now migrated from the legacy Vision TV platform to YouView. BT’s operating costs increased 9 per […]
Internet giant Google is experimenting with autoplay videos that sees relevant trailers and clips played in response to users’ search results. The feature puts the autoplaying video at the top of search results as part of the knowledge panel for certain searches. Searches for information about movies or TV shows pops up the video in […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued two rulings in which it states that the switchover from analogue to digital TV in Italy was based on resolutions and laws contrary to EU law. Also, the frequency redistribution system in Italy has been criticised because it is at risk of being incompatible with […]
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat, despite a 2.2 per cent (like for like) fall in revenues for the year (from €1.529 billion last year to €1.477 billion) and a 2.7 per cent fall in EBITDA profitability, turned in a significant €160.5 million improvement in free cashflow (from €247 million to €408 million) in the year to […]
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES has reported its half-year (to June 30th) financials, saying that revenues were up 9.6 per cent to €1.049 billion, and it had achieved an EBITDA margin of 65.5 per cent (66.4 per cent last year) and operating profit margin of 29.2 per cent (31.3 per cent last year). Its all-important contracted backlog rose […]
Orange Spain is performing well in capturing new TV subscribers. In the first half of the year, the company increased its TV subscription base with 540,000 adds – up 42 per cent on the same period last year. As a whole, the company has over 20 million customers in Spain of which 15.8 million are […]
Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 and La Sexta among other channels in Spain, has reported a profit of €84.3 million in the first half of the year, up 0.1 per cent on the same period last year. Total revenues grew by 1.2 per cent to €550.8 million with the EBITDA falling by 2.5 per cent […]
Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising, has released its Q2 2017 U.S. TV & Video At-A-Glance report. According to the report, spending on linear TV campaigns in the Videology platform using advanced data grew 150 per cent quarter over quarter from Q1 2017 to Q2 2017. Videology continues to see an […]
North American pay-radio service SiriusXM continues to add subscribers and revenue. Its total subscriber base is now more than 32 million, with net self-pay growth reaching 466,000 for the broadcaster’s second quarter (to June 31st). Q2 revenue is also up, 9 per cent, to $1.3 billion, with net income rising an impressive 16 per cent […]
Italian DTH platform Tivùsat has boosted the offer of kids TV channels, with the addition of Super!. Now available on channel position 47, Super! joins Rai YoYo and Rai Gulp (both produced by public broadcaster RAI and available both in SD and HD), Boing and Cartoonito (both operated jointly by Mediaset and Turner). Super! was […]