France’s SFR has won exclusive rights to Uefa Champions League and Europa League football from the 2018-19 season beating off incumbents beIN Sports and Canal Plus. Sports newspaper L’Équipe reports SFR Sport will pay €350 million per season for the rights, which will run to 2020-21 seasons of both competitions. In a statement beIN said: “beIN Sports […]
According to Carl Hibbert, Associate Director of Media & Entertainment Research at Futuresource Consulting. UK, when taking stock of the VR ecosystem, it is clear that the commitment to driving the sector towards eventual success is as strong as ever. In a Blog post, he says
The arrival of linear 24×7 streaming video services, such as DirecTV Now and YouTube TV, is increasing the relevance and uptake of streaming media devices. ABI Research identifies that worldwide streaming media adapters will reach nearly 56 million shipments in 2022 and forecasts all those devices shipping in North America and western Europe will be […]
Anne Bulford, Deputy Director-General of the BBC, has reiterated Director-General Tony Hall’s assertion that the BBC needs to reinvent itself for the online, content everywhere era, with a reinvention of catch-up service iPlayer part of such changes. Delivering a Keynote Speech at the DTG Summit in London, Bulford suggested that delegates understand the forces that […]
The migration from satellite to IPTV has seen Telefónica’s pay-TV business report a 1.7 per cent decline in the number of global subscribers to 8.2 million in the first quarter of the year. In Spain, the fall has been even greater, with a decline of 3 per cent ending the quarter with 3.616 million subscribers, […]
European broadcaster RTL Group has announced its quarterly results for the period ended March 31st 2017. Group revenue was down 1.9 per cent to €1,405 million (Q1/2016: €1,432 million), solely due to the absence of American Idol on the US network Fox in 2017 which more than compensated higher revenue from Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, Groupe […]
The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the country’s public broadcaster, is shutting down. The Knesset decided to close down the IBA on grounds that it was too bureaucratic and expensive. The government has long also criticised the broadcaster as too liberal. For now, the TV channels broadcast a holding template, while the radio stations broadcast non-stop […]
Satellite operator Intelsat is looking to merge with Jersey-based OneWeb with help from Japanese media giant SoftBank. The deal needs Intelsat’s debt-holders to agree to new financial terms, and that agreement looks to be in doubt. The deadline for acceptances of new terms was at midnight yesterday, May 10th. New York-based Reorg Research, in a […]
comScore has introduced a new syndicated service called comScore OTT Intelligence that measures US household viewing of OTT content on television screens. The data is gathered through comScore’s Total Home Panel, which now incorporates about 12,500 households with 150,000 digital devices. With OTT viewing growing—and traditional pay-TV subscribers shrinking—it is becoming increasingly important for TV […]
According to the findings of The Changing TV Experience: 2017, from The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), most US adults (56 per cent) own a streaming-enabled TV, a 56 per cent rise from just two years ago, a fundamental shift in the way that Americans watch television. Almost all Americans (92 per cent) own