Research from market and consumer information source GfK into the UK’s OTT viewing habits has revealed surprisingly low audience numbers on mobile devices. It seems that watching subscription video content on Netflix, Amazon and Now TV is, for now, most definitely an in-home entertainment experience. The vast majority (90 per cent) of the UK’s OTT […]
Barely two days after suggesting that such an outcome was likely, and a day after it confirmed that it had crossed the 5 per cent and 10 per cent thresholds of Italian broadcaster Mediaset’s share capital, media group Vivendi revealed December 14 that it had crossed the 15 per cent threshold and reached the 20 […]
Australian telcos must block access to sites infringing content copyright and divert web users towards a web page created by movie studios, the Federal court has ruled. Pay-TV operator Foxtel welcomed the decision, calling it a “major step in directly combating piracy”. Sites such as The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, Torrent Hound, IsoHunt and SolarMovie are […]
Streaming pay-TV service fuboTV (fubo.tv), which aims to provide the world’s best sports and entertainment programming, is more than doubling its national channel line-up following affiliate agreements with Fox Networks Group, NBCUniversal, A+E Networks, Crown Media Family Networks, Fuse Media, NBA TV and The Weather Channel. This will result in the launch of a new […]
Video app specialist Vimeo has unveiled all-new TV applications for Apple tvOS, Android TV, and Samsung Smart TV, Vimeo’s first HTML5-based TV app on the Tizen operating system. The new apps introduce a complete rebuild of the Vimeo TV experience fully customised for watching and discovering content on these next-generation viewing platforms. “We’ve built brand […]
Preliminary findings released from UK energy company British Gas’s upcoming Home Energy Report 2016, set for publication in January 2017, reveal that household energy bills from watching TV are likely to increase for the first time since 2011. Data analysed by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) points to the new generation of […]
Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group plans to regroup its French radio operations into Groupe M6. With a 48.26 per cent shareholding, RTL Group is the controlling shareholder of the publicly-listed French TV broadcaster Groupe M6. RTL Group’s Board of Directors and Groupe M6’s Supervisory Board unanimously approved the planned transaction on 7 December 2016 and 13 […]
A report from the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission has found that Britain is 54th in the world for 4G coverage, and the typical user can only access 4G barely half the time, with the Commission’s Chairman calling for government to act now to ensure the nation’s major transport networks and urban centres are 5G ready […]
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, have formed a new joint venture that sees the two British content powerhouses combine forces to launch BritBox, an ad-free SVoD service, in the US during Q1, 2017. AMC Networks, which has a joint venture with BBC Worldwide for cable […]
Media group Vivendi has revealed that it has taken a 3.01 per cent stake in Italian broadcaster Mediaset and could raise that holding to 20 per cent. Vivendi announced on April 8th 2016 that it had concluded a strategic and industrial partnership with Mediaset. This partnership, with an international scope, included, on the one hand, […]