The hackers behind HBO’s data breach have allegedly leaked an email in which the channel offered them $250,000 as a “bounty payment,” according to US reports including in Variety. The message from HBO says the money is part of what it terms a reward scheme for “white-hat professionals” who identify cyber security flaws.# The email […]
News Corp posted a $817 million (€692m) year loss on the back of big falls in the value of newspapers in the UK and Australia and write offs on Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel. Revenue was $8.14 billion, down 2 per cent from $8.29 billion last year, on falling print advertising revenue and foreign currency fluctuations, the […]
Viacom International Media Networks Italia has ended the year to September 2016 with a profit of €2.4 million. Revenues in the same period grew to €52.8 million, according to the recently approved financial report, whose results were published by business daily ItaliaOggi. The highest contribution came from Nickelodeon (€13.7 million), followed by MTV (€12.7 million) […]
In a new study of the top US streaming video platforms and content providers, the Parents Television Council – a non-partisan education organisation advocating responsible entertainment – found that children have easy access to adult content, in part, because the parental controls are lax or non-existent. The PTC research also found that the majority of […]
Flexible TV viewing is on the rise, with 6.9 million Australians streaming more than 1.5 billion minutes of catch-up and live streaming content in the past month, according to the latest OzTAM VPM 28 Day Rolling and Live Streaming reports. The figure represents a 25 per cent increase in television streaming over the past four […]
BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, which launched exclusively in the US earlier in 2017, is now available on Amazon Channels. Prime members can subscribe to BritBox for $6.99 (€5.95) per month after a seven-day free trial, and […]
Virgin Media Ireland is adding UKTV Play to its catalogue of catch up services. UKTV channels Dave, W, Gold and Alibi will now be available through the operator’s On Demand platform, making over 1,000 additional hours of catch up TV available to its customers. Customers will be able to tune in to their favourite Dave, […]
According to distributed video management and delivery platform specialist Vimmi, communication service providers (CSPs) are failing to add new subscribers and even losing existing subscribers and therefore profits because of their ageing video OTT platforms. Service providers are struggling to scale their platforms and to provide the range of services and quality of experience that […]
Facebook has unveiled its long-trailed move to compete in the television market by expanding its video tab offerings with a redesign called Watch. The redesigned product will be available initially to a limited group in the United States. Facebook signed deals this year with Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to produce […]
Altice is scoping a bid for number two US cable operator Charter Communications, according to reports. CNBC claims Altice is working with banks to finance a cash and shares offer. Altice would reportedly seek to finance a large part of the deal with debt, but it is by no means certain Liberty Media, which owns […]