Streaming service Rakuten TV has launched its offer on 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) for Smart TVs. Over 100 titles will be available, including 2017 hits Transformers: The Last Knight, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Baby Driver and Baywatch among others. Users of Samsung Tizen UHD HDR TV sets will have a 4K HDR app in their devices […]
The world’s ‘Big Three’ satellite operators (SES, Intelsat and Eutelsat) are all under pressure with their revenues and profit margins squeezed and anxieties over their ability to continue to stay relevant in a world where threats from broadband and data incomes threatened by a highly competitive market. SES has suffered badly, with a further 2.3 […]
Parks Associates has released its list of the top 10 subscription OTT video services in the US market in 2017, based on number of subscribers. Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots while HBO Now made a significant move into the top five. Netflix Amazon Video Hulu MLB.TV HBO Now Starz […]
Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News presenter, had a clause in his last contract that meant he could not be fired over harassment allegations unless they were proved in court. Jacques Nasser, an independent director of Fox talked about the clause during a hearing with the Competition and Markets Authority in its investigation into 21st […]
The Spanish Football League La Liga aims to reach 400 million viewers in Asia by 2020 – effectively doubling its current audience. Javier Tebas, president of La Liga has stated that the viewership has increased by 25 per cent in a year in the region. To consolidate its presence La Liga has opened offices in Singapore […]
Vivendi, the French media group, has launched its mobile SVoD platform Studio+ in the US, with an app currently available on the AppStore, and a Google Play app to follow shortly. After a one-month free trial, a subscription will cost $3.99 per month. Launched in 2016 in France, Italy and Latin America, the platform claimed […]
Vodafone is expanding its UK fixed marketing FTTP services with the wholesale operator CityFibre. They plan to connect fibre services to one million homes by 2021 and up to 5 million by 2025, around 20 per cent of the UK broadband market. Vodafone will have a period of exclusive rights to market consumer broadband services […]
RTL Group has published its results for the nine months ending September 30th 2017. In the third quarter of 2017, reported Group revenue was up 1.5 per cent to €1,372 million (Q3/2016: €1,352 million), mostly due to higher revenue from Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (Germany) and Groupe M6 (France). EBITDA was up strongly by 17.4 per […]
US pay-TV operator DISH Network has reported revenue totaling $3.58 billion (€3.08bn) for the quarter ending September 30th 2017, compared to $3.77 billion for the corresponding period in 2016. Subscriber-related revenue for the quarter totaled $3.55 billion, compared to $3.73 billion in subscriber-related revenue for the year-ago period. Net income attributable to DISH Network totaled […]
Canadians are increasingly turning to platforms and devices connected to the Internet for their video and audio content, according to the 2017 Communications Monitoring Report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Canadians aged 18-34 years old are leading the trend with 23 per cent watching TV exclusively online. Nationally, 13 per cent of […]