The Wall Street Journal report that Apple is going to invest $1 billion annually on original TV content and in an attempt to climb aboard the perceived success of Netflix and Amazon, has raised more questions than answers. The fact that Amazon is increasingly moving into the slam-dunk guaranteed success of sports exclusivity is a […]
Dish TV, India’s largest DTH broadcaster, saw a drop in both subscriber growth and revenues for the quarter-year ended June 30th (the company’s 1st quarter), and lower than market expectations. Subscription revenues for the 3 months was Rupees 6.917 billion (7.282 billion in Q1 last year) and a fall of 5.1. During the quarter, 186,000 […]
HBO’s spate of cyber breaches has continued as several of its Twitter accounts were hacked and taken over by the notorious OurMine group. The hacking group took control of the main HBO Twitter account as well as those for TV shows including Game of Thrones, Veep and Girls, posting its now routine statement: “Hi, OurMine […]
New crime drama series In The Dark was July’s top programme on BBC iPlayer. The first episode was made available from July 11th, and received 1.6 million requests over the rest of the month. The figures from the BBC also reveal that BBC iPlayer received 236 million requests for TV content in July, with viewing […]
AsiaSat, Asia’s leading satellite operator, has announced its 2017 interim results for the six months ended June 30th 2017. H1 revenue maintained at HK$ 642 million (2016: HK$640 million). Value of contracts on hand remained stable at around HK$4,076 million (December 31st 2016: HK$4,067 million). AsiaSat’s Chairman, JU Wei Min, said, “The company entered 2017 […]
Singapore media company Mediacorp has announced the appointment of Tham Loke Kheng as its CEO and Board Director, effective September 1st 2017. She will succeed Shaun Seow, who will remain as Executive Director, Mediacorp till September 30th before joining Temasek. Loke Kheng is an industry veteran with extensive media experience, especially in content and marketing. […]
Kabillion and Mediacom have finalised a deal to carry Kabillion and Kabillion Girls Rule! on Mediacom’s VoD service in the US. Kabillion, the only independently owned VoD network ranked among the Top 10 Kids Free On Demand networks, will launch in select US markets within Mediacom’s service foot-print and continue to expand in the future. […]
AsiaSat has teamed up with Encompass Digital Media to provide Telekom Malaysia with C-band capacity on the AsiaSat 5 satellite to deliver live coverage of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games to viewers across Asia-Pacific. Encompass will support Telekom Malaysia with the satellite capacity and distribution, enabling viewers across the Asia-Pacific to access coverage of […]
EuroMedia July/August 2017 EuroMedia spoke to a range of industry practitioners to define the role of manging and securing content distribution in the connected, multi-device Smart Home in an increasingly cloud-based environment. Read the article and the rest of the issue here
Apple is set to invest $1 billion (€855m) in producing and procuring original content over the next year, according to a report in The WSJ. The investment could result in as many as 10 new shows, with the tech giant looking to match the output of networks such as HBO. Apple previously focused on renting TV […]