Amazon Web Services has announced that Mexican broadcast network Multimedios Televisión has selected video processing, distribution and storage solutions from AWS Elemental and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its online video content. The agreement broadens the broadcaster’s AWS deployment with additional cloud-based video processing and content distribution solutions, comprising an end-to-end workflow to produce and […]
Pay-TV subscriptions for 522 operators reached 839 million in 2016 – or 87 per cent of the 959 million global subscribers. The top 50 operators accounted for two-thirds of the world’s pay-TV subscribers by end-2016. At that time, 15 operators had more than 10 million paying subscribers, according to the Global Pay TV Operator Databook […]
As anticipated, Sky Sports is expanding its service with 10 sports channels, aimed at giving customers more choice, at no extra cost. The line-up will include new channels dedicated to some of the biggest sports and opens up new ways for customers to join Sky Sports, from as little as 60p (€0.68) a day. It […]
In view of the new digital dividend – to be completed in 2020 – and the increasing popularity of pay-TV with 6 million subscribers, Spanish FTA DTT Association Television en Abierto has urged the Government not to reduce spectrum and frequencies in Spain to enable them to maintain their position in the market. The Association […]
Media and entertainment company Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) has agreed to sell its leading broadcast operations in Croatia (Nova TV) and in Slovenia (POP TV) to Slovenia Broadband S.à r.l., a subsidiary of United Group B.V, subject to certain closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. The transaction – which CME says will assist in […]
Last week it was a Canadian pension fund and a Holiday Camp business that looked like the front runners to wrap a purchase of British television and cellular transmission company Arqiva. Now the waters are definitely muddied with talk that there’s another batch of would-be buyers now interested in Arqiva. Initial bids must be entered […]
Oculus, the VR-firm owned by social media giant Facebook, is cutting the price of its VR headset for the second time this year. In a blog post, Oculus announced it is to price its Rift headset (bundled with hand-tracking Touch controllers) at $399 (€350), two-thirds of the price the company was charging just months ago. […]
Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network spin-off, Sling TV, has more than 2 million subscribers, according to data from ComScore. Dish Network itself does not break out its OTT subsidiary’s numbers. Sling TV packages a suite of TV channels at a basic monthly fee, helped by low Subscriber Acquisition costs and with zero installation costs. Marketed as […]
Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo and Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel have signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) licence renewal. This agreement offers Foxtel ongoing access to TiVo’s entertainment discovery patent portfolios. “Our relationship with Foxtel demonstrates how pay-TV providers around the world use TiVo’s intellectual property to reach consumers in more innovative ways,” […]
South Korea’s giant conglomerate Samsung’s Electronics division is suggesting that its Q2 profits will be a record-breaking 14 trillion Won (about $12.1 billion), up 72 per cent. The division looks after TV displays, cellular phones and the manufacture of (DRAM and NAND) memory and solid-state modules. The actual numbers will be confirmed at the end […]