International cable group Liberty Global third-quarter profit fell from last year, when it recorded a gain on the sale of assets in France, Norway and Sweden. Liberty said it expects the fourth quarter to be the biggest quarter of the year in terms of subscriber growth, and that it expects to grow operating cash flow […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Dahlia TV has been specifically created to provide pay-TV services on the DTT platform. Directed by a former executive of Spain’s largest cable company ONO, Fernando Ojeda, Dahlia TV claims to have reached agreements with some of the major networks in the country. The company hopes the government will […]
As the first major broadband operator in Sweden, Telia will begin to test HDTV via their broadband network. The trial period will last for six months, and is scheduled to begin in late November. Approximately 70 households in Stockholm and Gothenburg will participate in trial. The date for commercial launch has not yet been decided. […]
HDNet has filed a lawsuit against DirecTV in an effort to stop the satellite company from moving the company’s two HD channels to a special HD-tier. The suit claims DirecTV is trying to destroy HDNet by bumping the network and its sister net HDNet Movies to the satcaster’s HD Extra Pack which costs subscribers an […]
STAR, TrueVisions and GMM Media have announced a three-party joint venture for CHANNEL V Thailand, a leading music and youth entertainment channel targeted at Thailand's youth market. STAR will hold a 49 per cent stake in the joint venture while TrueVisions, Thailand's leading pay-TV operator, and GMM Media, Thailand's leading multi-media group, will hold 26 […]
Although growth of IPTV subscriptions in Europe are expected to grow five-fold by 2011 – to more than 25 million – a new study from Parks Associates finds that operators are ARPU-challenged and facing strong competition. “IPTV in Europe: Digital TV in a Hyper-competitive Market” – A study finds that telcos are facing growing competition […]
News Corp first-quarter profit fell 13 per cent from a year earlier, when the sale of investments boosted results by $428 million (E291m). Income dropped to $732 million from $843 million a year earlier. Sales rose 19 per cent to $7.07 billion. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch highlighted the results at Fox Interactive Media, that […]
DirecTV’s third-quarter net income dropped 14 per cent as the company spent more to provide customers with high-definition channels and digital video recorders. The US's largest satellite-TV operator reported net income of $319 million (E217m), compared with $370.2 million a year earlier. Results in the year-ago quarter included a pretax gain of $61 million related […]
Time Warner reported a 9 per cent rise in third-quarter revenue of $11.767 billion, however net income was down to $1.1 billion from $2.3 billion 12 months earlier due to discontinued operations and one-off items. The group’s main revenue driver, Time Warner Cable, posted a 25 per cent increase in revenue to $4 billion, with […]
TiVo is reported as offering a new service giving advertisers detailed profiles of its users. TiVo – which sells advertisers second-by-second ratings of programs and commercials based on subscriber viewing habits – plans to announce that it will soon add demographic data about the viewers themselves the WSJ reported. The information includes age, income, marital […]