Following the announcement earlier this year of an agreement between Arabsat and ONT to launch a Tunisian broadcast platform on Arabsat Badr-4 at 26°E, Rohde & Schwarz has been selected to design, install and commission the TV broadcast platform, which became fully operational in October. Working closely with Arabsat, Rohde & Schwarz has installed its […]
Pay-TV revenues for the 20 countries covered in the eighth edition of the Middle East and North Africa Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research will reach $3.62 billion (€2.97bn) in 2023 – up by only 7.8 per cent on 2017. Pay-TV revenues will fall in 2018. They will be flat in 2019 before […]
With an average of 6.4 screens per home in France, each is used for specific purposes, and by different users, according to a report from measurement company Médiamétrie. The television set is by far the preferred screen for web users aged 6 years and over (91 per cent), followed by the computer (55 per cent). […]
Today’s consumers have instant access to an unprecedented range of screen-based entertainment options – from live and on-demand TV, to videos on YouTube, to gaming, to social media. One thing that has not expanded, however: consumers’ disposable time. A study from The Hub entitled The Battle for Share of Mind takes a look at how […]
Dentsu Aegis Network’s latest Ad Spend Forecasts, based on data received from 59 markets, puts global growth at 3.6 per cent in 2018, up from 3.1 per cent in 2017. Events will play an important role in 2018, with the Winter Olympics & Paralympics, FIFA World Cup in Russia and the US Congressional elections all expected to stimulate […]
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has announced the findings of the 2017 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets, also known as the Notorious Markets List (List). The List highlights 25 online markets and 18 physical markets around the world that are reported to be engaging in and facilitating substantial copyright piracy and trademark […]
Spanish police have arrested three people in Barcelona, Cadiz and Vigo for pirating pay-TV by mass-sharing software through Internet forums to over 500,000 users. The hackers sold software and CCAM, NewCam and TIKS protocols to illegally watch pay-TV and even offered tutorials teaching how to do it. The police operation, called ‘Fake’. has resulted in […]
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has suggested that a streaming service in New York that rebroadcasts local TV stations without their consent is unlikely to survive legal scrutiny because of copyright concerns. Sports fans advocacy organisation the Sports Fan Coalition (SFC) has incorporated the Sports Fans Coalition New York, its first separate local chapter, […]
India’s Dish TV pay-TV broadcaster is in the middle of acquiring rival broadcaster Videotron d2h. However, various businesses in the Videocon Group are cash-strapped and subject to insolvency proceedings. The merged businesses would have some 29 million subscribers. Dish TV has already notified India’s various regulatory bodies and the Bombay Stock Exchange that the transaction […]
Rome-based utility Acea and wholesale broadband network operator Open Fiber have signed a MoU for the installation of an ultrafast broadband network in Rome using FTTH technology. Acea will make available to Open Fiber its infrastructures for the laying of fibre optic cable, thereby minimising the impact of the works on the town. The total […]