Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Italian TV market has lost over €400 million in value. TV advertising is down by 13 per cent, while pay-TV is the only positive performer. These are the main conclusions of the Television Market in Italy 2020-2022 report published by Rome-based ITMedia Consulting. Also, pay-TV surpasses FTA for the […]
OneWeb, now out of bankruptcy (the formal documents are to be signed on November 30th and the final Court hearing is scheduled for December 3rd), has officially restarted its dual satellite production lines at its joint-venture factory in Florida. OneWeb now has backing from a consortium including the UK government and Bharti Global. “Due to […]
The latest UK TV Exports report from Pact, the trade association representing the commercial interests of UK independent television, film, digital, children’s and animation media companies, shows that 2019/20 was another record-breaking year for UK TV exports, generating £1.48 billion, a 6 per cent year-on-year increase. Scripted drama – such as Chernobyl, His Dark Materials, […]
On the first anniversary of the launch of beIN Sports Xtra, beIN Sports has announced the live, 24/7 English-language network has experienced huge growth, increasing its user base by 206 per cent between March 2020 and October 2020. beIN Sports Xtra launched in the US and Canada on November 17th 2019 and offers a sampling […]
A growing number of Australian consumers are cutting their pay-TV subscriptions as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey of 1,000 Australians by JWS Research for The Trade Desk Fourteen per cent of Australians that use pay television services intend to cancel, put on hold or let lapse their pay-TV services […]
A reconstruction between Loral Space & Communications and Canada’s Telesat has been under assorted discussion for years, and years, and then some! The complications around any merger were made especially challenging by joint cross-holdings between Loral and Telesat, and then further compounded by their major shareholder Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). Those […]
Open standards development organisation Broadband Forum has published three new standards, which it says marks a major step forward in unlocking a new wave of 5G innovation and prepare telcos for the mass adoption of 5G. The three new specifications will allow telcos to build their 5G networks with open, cloud-native platforms that utilise software […]
ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! launched with 14.3 million viewers – its biggest ever overall audience for the opening episode of the long-running series. The first show of the 2020 series, which ran on November 15th, consolidated to an audience of 13.8 million TV viewers [52 per cent audience share] over the […]
UK free-to-air satellite TV platform Freesat has confirmed the addition of BBC Sounds to its latest range of 4K TV set-top boxes and growing portfolio of apps. The BBC Sounds app gives access to over 80,000 hours of music, radio and podcasts, making it easier for listeners to discover and enjoy live radio, music and […]
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications says it plans to introduce legislation to impose extra charges on people who are “illicitly” watching TV sets without paying the reception licence fee. Public broadcaster NHK depends on the reception fees for its income But the proposed new rules may not be easy to implement. A government […]