More than 300 million pay-TV households worldwide now subscribe to operators who offer access to Netflix through their set-top boxes (STBs), thanks to an increasing number of partnership deals with the streaming giant. To date, Netflix has struck over 100 major partnership deals. These operator deals give Netflix theoretical access to nearly half of all […]
Italian pay-TV revenues dropped by 8 per cent in the decade 2009-2019, while costs for the Italian Serie A increased by 78 per cent, according to a report by Enders Analysis, carried by Business Insider Italia. Perhaps of more concern is that the number of Italian pay-TV subscribers dropped by 1.15 million in 2018, partly […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro will take European football governing body UEFA to Court for altering the submission bids for the Champions League for the seasons 2021-2014 in favour of Canal Plus and beIN Sports. “We are going to sue UEFA, in Switzerland, to request access to the tender documentation, the first and second rounds. We […]
An Italian judge has scheduled December 6th for the new hearing in Vivendi’s request to block Mediaset’s pan-European television project. The two groups, locked in a series of legal battles, have clashed over Mediaset’s plans to merge its Italian and Spanish operations under the guise of MediaForEurope (MFE), a new Dutch-registered holding company. The Milan […]
Roy Morgan research shows over 14.5 million Australians now have access to some form of pay-TV/subscription TV, up 8.2 per cent on a year ago. The combined audience for these services is almost 70 per cent of the Australian population, as new subscription TV services Apple TV+ and Disney+ enter the market this month. Netflix […]
GroupM has published its latest UK ad forecast which provides an even larger growth projection for 2020 than was originally predicted in its June forecast. One of the major reasons for this, says the media investment company, is because as more digital endemic marketers increasingly replace traditional companies that came before them, spending shares will […]
Back on November 6th, it was reported that Inmarsat faces a Court action that threatens the $6 billion take-over by a consortium headed by Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus. That Court action is still in place and has forced a delay to the originally-planned November 29th approval date. Some minority shareholders are arguing that the […]
Last week, Panasonic said it would be exiting its LCD production division by 2021. Now, the Japanese electronics giant says it is to sell off its semi-conductor business. Panasonic says that intense competition and the US-China trade disputes have combined to take a toll on its chip-set sales. The main subsidiary, Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions, is […]
UK multiplay telco EE is claiming the world’s first augmented reality, multi-location gig over 5G, starring British band, Bastille. Crowds of passengers at Birmingham’s New Street Station were stopped in their tracks as the group, led by frontman Dan Smith, performed its iconic track Pompeii during a busy rush hour. Meanwhile, fans passing through bustling […]
Insight TV, the 4K HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is launching its 4K content in Malaysia on the Astro platform with a dedicated branded block on Astro’s UHD channel. Astro made history last year when it became the first operator to launch a live 4K UHD broadcast in Malaysia. The combined strength […]