Orange Spain has reported flat revenues for the first quarter, reaching €1.32 billion, up just 0.4 per cent year on year. Orange ended the quarter with a total of 20.3 million customers – out of which 16.1 million are mobile telephony customers and 4.13 million fixed broadband subscribers. Some 84 per cent of the latter […]
Venezuela’s struggling President Nicholas Maduro has banned distribution of CNN from the nation’s cable and DTH networks. The BBC’s news channel has also been removed. DirecTV, Net Uno, Intercable and Telefonica have all be ordered to remove the news channels via the local telecoms regulator Conatel. CNN, in a web-statement, said: “CNN has been taken […]
Hulu, the US streaming service, now has over 28 million customers – 26.8 million monthly paid subscribers and 1.3 million promotional accounts – it revealed during the annual IAB’s Digital Content NewFronts conference in New York. Hulu had 20 million customers in January of last year. Hule also revealed a new slate of shows and […]
Neil Sharpe, Product Marketing Director at content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTS, has described streaming piracy as a “sophisticated, industrial scale problem”, but suggested that with the right techniques, tackling it is not an insurmountable task. Speaking at SportsPro Live in London, Sharpe told delegates that research from market analyst firm Ovum estimated that […]
Intelsat’s CEO Steve Spengler, talking to analysts following on from the company’s Q1 results, said that newly introduced managed services are expected to provide $4 billion of increased revenue opportunity industry-wide through 2023. One of the extra services is a “blended satellite wireless Internet service that provides reliable cloud access regardless of location”. Spengler said […]
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 second quarter ended March 30th 2019. The tech giant posted quarterly revenue of $58 billion (€51.6bn), a decline of 5 per cent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.46, down 10 per cent. International sales accounted for 61 per cent of […]
The NFL and Twitter have announced a multi-year partnership extension that will deliver a host of new live programming, original sponsored content and more highlights to Twitter’s audience as the NFL prepares to kick off its 100th season. The new deal will feature new live programming built around some of the NFL’s biggest events, more […]
Former US President Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, have revealed their first slate of content for the Netflix platform. The former first couple announced a content deal with the streaming giant in May of last year to produce a raft of shows and films under their production company Higher Ground, and have now unveiled […]
Forbidden Technologies, the developer and seller of the cloud video platform Blackbird, has announced that Deltatre has signed an agreement to extend its use of Blackbird for a further 12 months. Deltatre is a global provider of digital and broadcast services within the sports sector. The company works with rights owners and rights holders to grow […]
Eurosport will have every moment and kilometre covered at this year’s Giro d’Italia thanks to a 360-degree editorial offer. The first Grand Tour of 2019 will be the first that Eurosport and the Global Cycling Network (GCN) have worked in collaboration at a live event since Discovery took a majority stake in the company in […]