The BBC served 24.1 million stream requests during Wimbledon this year via BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, making it the most-streamed Wimbledon to date. The most popular match was Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller’s 66-game epic with 1.4 million requests. With more people streaming this year’s tournament than ever before, BBC Sport also saw record […]
Movie and TV series streaming service Wuaki, owned by the Japanese company Rakuten, has been rebranded as Rakuten TV coinciding with the start of a four-year sponsorship deal with the Barcelona football team. Rakuten.tv currently has around five million registered users across 12 countries, of which approximately 40 per cent are in Spain. Ratuken has […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has issued an apology after what it described as “technical issues” caused its online and on demand services to crash during the much-awaited Season 7 Game of Thrones premiere. Amid much negative social media chatter, Foxtel issued the following statement, which suggested that the technical problems were more widespread than just […]
Premium online video services have started to gain traction in Asia Pacific but have a long way to go before achieving mass adoption, according to a new report from independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA, in partnership with consumer research specialist BDRC Continental, has surveyed more than 15,000 Internet users across […]
Network policy control solutions provider Sandvine has entered into an arrangement agreement with PNI Canada Acquireco Corp, an affiliate of Francisco Partners and subscriber and network intelligence provider Procera Networks which will see PNI acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Sandvine by way of plan of arrangement for cash consideration of […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat is to carry UKTV’s Dave and Home, two of the UK’s best-known and highly-regarded television channels on the platform August 1st. Dave will be available on channel number 157 and Home on 166. Dave is one of the UK’s most-watched non-PSB channels and hosts a mix of comedy and […]
Game of Thrones, perhaps unsurprisingly, pulled in record viewing numbers for HBO in the US on Sunday night. Some 16.1 million HBO subscribers watched the first episode of season 7 – the show’s penultimate season – with 10.1 million of those viewing traditionally and the rest coming from DVR and streaming. That puts the audience […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has reported Q2 sales of SEK 4,246 million (€444.15m) with 5 per cent organic growth. The Swedish broadcasting group operating income up 9 per cent to SEK 391 million. President & CEO Jørgen Madsen Lindemann commented: “This was the fourth consecutive quarter of at least 5 per cent organic sales growth, […]
South Korea’s technology conglomerate Samsung is going after the cinema screen market with a massive 33.8 ft-wide (10.3 metres) LED ‘Super-S’ display, with 4K resolution and a claimed ‘peak brightness level nearly 10-times greater than that offered by conventional digital cinema projection”. Samsung installed the first unit into the Lotte Cinema World Tower complex in […]
Games software/hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion (€129.85bn) revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking around three-quarters and hardware around one-quarter of the total, reports Digi-Capital. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9 per cent for the next 5 years, games software/hardware combined could top […]