Following advanced-television.com’s revelation that beIN was planning to launch a movie service for the Middle East, the operator has confirmed that it is to offer a complete pay-TV proposition of sports, movies and entertainment available to customers through a single regional pay-TV platform, an initiative that it says democratises pay-TV in MENA. Marking its twelfth […]
TiVo Research and Analytics and Viacom have formed a new strategic alliance focused on advancing Viacom’s proprietary data and advertising solutions. Viacom’s data and ad products have led the industry in recent years with predictive tools such as Vantage and Echo Social Graph that hyper-target consumers. The first such alliance for TiVo with a media […]
Media heavyweights and private investors including Discovery Communications, BT and a consortium led by its former chairman Luke Johnson are weighing up an offer for Channel 4 as the UK government prepares to sell off the broadcaster, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Johnson, who chaired the taxpayer-owned broadcaster between 2004 and 2010 and now leads […]
Rising demand for broadband services will compensate for the loss in TV video subscribers and help sustain industry growth through 2016, says Moody’s Investors Service. As a result, the rating agency maintains its stable outlook on the US cable industry. Broadband subscribers outnumbered total video subscribers in Moody’s rated universe for the first time at […]
Strategy Analytics’ iOS apps forecast predicts the Apple iOS App Store will reach nearly $30 billion (€27.2bn) in revenue by 2021. Between 2008 and 2021 Apple will pay out more than $140 billion billion to app developers.While Apple’s App Store continues to generate billions for developers, the companies benefitting continue to change significantly. In 2008 […]
Research from UK free-to-air DTT platform Freeview suggests that the average Briton is more likely to switch partners than bank, energy or TV providers. The research, conducted by TNS, found that 81 per cent of British adults who have had a romantic partner have ended a relationship at least once, while just 56 per cent […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI and mobile telephony operator TIM have partnered for LTE Broadcast trials. On occasion on the closure of the 2015 Milan Expo, the two partners jointly offered visitors the possibility of trying out a Mobile TV service that provided access to live and on-demand content in HD, via the 4G network. Using […]
Mediaset Spain is strengthening its position both in TV broadcasting and online, according to comScore. With Tele 5, the group has been leading the TV ratings for 14 consecutive months with an average share of 15.1 per cent in October, 30.4 per cent as a whole group with six TV channels. Atresmedia Group was second […]
Digital security specialist The Kudelski Group has confirmed that its OpenTV and Nagra France subsidiaries have filed a patent infringement suit against US telco Verizon Communications and its subsidiary AOL Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The lawsuit alleges that Verizon and AOL infringe seven US patents owned […]
Linda Jensen, CEO of HBO Europe, has announced that she will depart the company at the end of the year. As of January 1st 2016, Hervé Payan, currently CEO of HBO Nordic, will become CEO, HBO Europe, consolidating HBO Nordic, HBO Netherlands and HBO Europe under one umbrella organisation. “When Linda informed us she would be leaving we took an assessment of our European […]