Following Advanced-Television’s November 2017 revelation that it was looking for a buyer for its former NDS video software division, Cisco Videoscape, reports suggest that the unit will be sold back to its previous leading shareholder, Permira Securities, with the sale price reported to be up to $1 billion (€820 million). Cisco acquired NDS for some […]
Suggesting the move will create the only company with the network capacity needed to launch rapidly a nationwide 5G network with the breadth and depth critical to extend the USA’s global Internet leadership in the 5G era, US telcos T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation are to merge in an all-stock transaction at a fixed exchange […]
According to findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s What’s TV Worth, the firm’s annual study on the perceived value of TV services, there is a large gap in perceived value between online TV services and traditional cable, satellite or fibre optic services. Highlights from the study:
The 100 leading TV services in the informitv Multiscreen Index added a total of 4.33 million pay-TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2017, compared to 3.70 million in the previous quarter and 4.03 million in the last quarter of 2016. The gain of almost 1 per cent was slightly up on the previous six […]
YouTube is promising advertisers new ways to reach people watching YouTube on TV screens — as well as targeting YouTube ads to cord-cutters and consumers who don’t watch a lot of traditional TV. YouTube says connected TVs represent its fastest-growing device category in part down to its over-the-top ‘skinny bundle’ pay-TV service launched last year. […]
The dominance of the Mediaset-Atresmedia duopoly – with over 85 per cent of the Spanish TV ad market and 50 per cent of audience ratings – is driving smaller DTT channels to bankruptcy with millions in losses and low ratings. Nationwide DTT channels such as Trece, DKiss and TEN have seen combined losses of €44 […]
vMVPD (Virtual multichannel video programming distributor) and D2C (Direct-to-consumer) revenues will reach $24 billion (€19.8bn) by 2023 – eight times the $3 billion recorded in 2017, according to the vMVPD and D2C TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. vMVPD will overshadow D2C with its revenues more than triple the D2C total by […]
Spacecom, which operates the AMOS fleet of satellites from Israel, has today (April 30th) notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that the Israeli state is to buy a new communications satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The worrying news is that the notification says the new satellite will be positioned at 4 degrees West, which […]
The news that Europe (collectively its Parliament, Council and European Commission) is contemplating ruling that OTT platforms such as Amazon and Netflix must face tough new ‘made in Europe’ 30 per cent quotas, is infuriating. As we reported last week, and according to Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, the new rules “reflect […]
‘Starlink’ is the proposed name of a global mega-constellation of thousands of small satellites which billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to launch, and in the process to “change the world”. SpaceX is Musk’s rocket company and its president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell, speaking on a TED talk, admitted that much of the public’s […]