Analyst firm Digital TV Research forecasts 60 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 to take the global total to 1.08 billion. China will provide 19 million additional subs and India 26 million. However, the US will lose 14.4 million pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 – down by 16 per cent. “We have […]
The US pay-TV sector relies more on sports and National Football League (NFL) fans than ever before with 90 per cent of sports fans subscribing to pay-TV, according to a new survey on sports viewership, fandom, and betting by strategy consulting group Altman Vilandrie & Company. The survey, which polled 5000 US consumers in August […]
Eutelsat CEO Rodophe Belmer sat alongside the CEOs of his former partners in the C-Band Alliance (SES, Intelsat and Telesat) on a conference panel and his comments were blunt as he told delegates to Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week in Paris that the other members of the Alliance were not listening to Eutelsat and its […]
La Liga football will be shown in the UK on Premier Sports from now until the end of the 2021-22 season. All matches will be broadcast live on new channel LaLigaTV, apart from games that kick off at 3pm UK time, which will be shown on delay. In addition, free-to-air channel FreeSports will broadcast select […]
OneWeb wants to place an initial 650 low-orbiting broadband satellites into space. It has already raised $3.4 billion (€3bn) in funding – but needs more. OneWeb reportedly needs some $5 billion to get its fleet built and launched, and to start supplying its broadband-by-satellite service to unserved users around the planet. The company has already […]
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and Shark Tank judge, was an early and enthusiastic adopter of HD television broadcasting. He has now sold his stake in his HDNet suite of cable channels. His HDNet cable channels were launched in 2001 and one of the very first to offer viewers […]
According to the second annual survey on connected automobile technologies from mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT Solutions provider Metova, Technology/Infotainment now outpaces Power, Interior Design and Seating and Storage Capacity and is on par with Exterior Design and Ratings and Reviews as a deciding factor in purchasing a new automobile. In addition, the […]
Eurosport says its strategy to serve and engage the widest possible audiences across multiple platforms during its coverage of the US Open in Europe has paid dividends with double-digit year-on-year growth on linear and additional growth on Eurosport Player and Eurosport.com. Boosted by local experts such as Grand Slam champions Boris Becker, Marion Bartoli and […]
Discovery is partnering with 605, a next- generation television measurement firm, to take full-funnel attribution to census scale . The companies will leverage data aggregated from multiple MVPD and ACR viewership sources totaling nearly 40 million US households, which they claim is the largest ever utilised for a TV attribution study. Both 605 and Discovery […]
Eurosport has agreed a deal with the Global Association of International Sports Federations [GAISF] to broadcast live coverage from the inaugural World Urban Games Budapest 2019. Coverage of the World Urban Games on Eurosport and Eurosport Player ensures that live action from the BMX freestyle, 3×3 basketball and breaking finals will be screened in over […]