Fans of true crime drama series The Assassination of Gianni Versace – American Crime Story have made the show BBC iPlayer’s most popular programme in March. The first episode of the hit US drama saw 1.6 million requests to take the top spot in March, in a month that proved a big one for drama. […]
Discovery has reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31st 2018. “The first quarter of 2018 was a historic and pivotal period for Discovery. We closed on our transaction to acquire Scripps Networks Interactive, becoming the global leader in real life entertainment and home to an enhanced portfolio of quality and trusted enthusiast brands,” […]
Eurocom owes close to 1 billion Israeli shekels (€230m) to its bankers, and another 200 million to various other creditors, and is now formally in liquidation. The move follows on from a Court ruling, even though many of the company’s key assets have already been sold or allocated for sale. The other sales, notably of […]
Over 90 people representing law enforcement, rights owners, platform operators, media technology providers, broadcasters and other trade associations from Europe, the US, the Far East, Middle East and Latin America participated in the second AAPA (Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance) workshop on illegal streaming, held in London, recently. The workshop allowed for an exchange of views about […]
US DTH broadcaster DISH Network has reported revenue totalling $3.46 billion for the quarter ending March 31st 2018, compared to $3.68 billion for the corresponding period in 2017. Subscriber-related revenue for the quarter totalled $3.42 billion, compared to $3.64 billion in subscriber-related revenue for the year-ago period. The company closed
In recent years, TV networks have started to position ad inventory more like digital: highly targeted and performance accountable. But advanced targeting inventory likely “accounts for 3 per cent or less of all national TV ad volume, most of which is transacted on the basis of age/gender audience segments”, said Gerard Broussard, author of an […]
Uganda’s Communications Commission (UCC) wants to significantly raise the costs of the annual licence fee to the country’s pay-TV operators. Currently, operators have their operating licences issued for an annual payment of 540 million Ugandan shillings (€122,600). UCC is complaining that this is a tiny proportion of the estimated $81 million a year now being […]
A Nigerian court in Lagos has heard of an alleged fraud against MultiChoice and its DStv and GOTV pay-TV systems in the country. A sum of Naira 200 million (about €471,000) is claimed in the Court papers. The alleged fraudsters are said to have hacked into the pay-TV operator’s computer system in Nigeria. The alleged […]
More Australians than three years ago are using Optus fixed broadband and mobile phone services following Optus’s purchase of the exclusive Australian rights to English Premier League football. Optus signed a three year broadcast deal for the Australian rights to the Premier League in late 2015 for A$63 million (€39.2m) per year and has this […]
FuboTV, the US sports-first streaming TV service, is now offering a new Fubo Extra option – a new, 80-plus channel bundle available for $49.99 per month, following a free, seven-day trial and current promotional offer of $19.99 for the first month. FuboTV includes every channel and feature that is part of the $44.99 per month […]