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NCTA touts cable industry’s economic impact

The US cable industry is delivering economic benefits nationwide, generating $568.7 billion (€487.9bn) in total economic output and supporting 1.3 million jobs across the country, according to a report commissioned by NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and conducted by Chmura Economics & Analytics. Additional findings in the study, Investing In America 2024: The […]

September 26, 2025

SES: Management changes in Germany

Satellite operator SES, which in Germany still trades on its long-standing Astra brand, is making some management changes. Out goes current MD, Andreas Müller-Vondey, at the SES subsidiary HD Plus. The new MD is Christoph Mühleib, who is already MD at SES in Germany, and will now supervise HD Plus as well as the SES […]

September 24, 2025By Chris Forrester

Australia: HBO Max scores bumper debut quarter

Data from research firm Roy Morgan shows streaming video service HBO Max, which launched in Australia on March 31st (then known as just ‘Max’), has captured an audience of 851,000 Australians aged 14+ in its first full quarter online (April – June 2025). A look at the broader market for SVoD shows 17.6 million Australians […]

September 23, 2025

Europe’s telco leaders commit to tech leadership

CEOs of a number of Europe’s leading telos have used the occasion of the Connect Europe public event in Brussels to issue an open letter affirming their support for European industrial leadership in Artificial Intelligence and security technologies. The letter reads: “Today, we gather in Brussels to mark our support for European industrial leadership in […]

September 23, 2025By Colin Mann

UK MNOs call for mobile connectivity support

Mobile UK, the trade body for the UK’s mobile operators, has urged the government to prioritise the industry as a critical engine for national competitiveness. In an article originally published on Politics Home, it suggests that world-class mobile infrastructure will play a key role in achieving the government’s ambitions for economic growth, innovation and inclusion. […]

September 23, 2025By Colin Mann

Congress Democrats call for Carr “censorship” investigation

US Congress Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) have called on the FCC Inspector General to launch an investigation into what they call Chairman Brendan Carr’s “illegal and unconstitutional censorship campaign”, […]

September 22, 2025By Colin Mann

Study: US cable TV users stay despite low satisfaction

Many US cable television subscribers remain with their providers due to barriers such as restrictive contracts, limited provider availability by location, and the complexity of switching, which is why subscribers stay despite lower satisfaction levels than live TV streaming, according to the J.D. Power 2025 US Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. Specifically, Cable TV customers […]

September 19, 2025

UK PSBs call for safeguards

The UK’s Public Service Broadcasters have used the occasion of the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention to publish a joint letter calling for five specific actions they suggest will not only safeguard but, more importantly, enhance public service broadcasting. The letter reads: “The UK’s Public Service Broadcasters may be rivals when it comes to ratings, […]

September 18, 2025By Colin Mann

Nandy: ‘The government believes in the BBC’

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has suggested the forthcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to futureproof the BBC so it thrives not just for the next decade but well into the next century, and confirmed that the Government supported regulator Ofcom’s recommendation that Public Service Media content should be prominent on major video sharing […]

September 18, 2025Advanced Television @ RTS Cambridge

Arrests in LatAm IPTV piracy case

Antipiracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has welcomed the arrest of the operators of a large Latin American illicit IPTV network, IPTV66. The operators were taken into custody in the Dominican Republic following an operation triggered by an ACE criminal referral. The Department of Investigation of High Technology Crimes and Offenses (DICAT) […]

September 18, 2025By Colin Mann