For the US cable industry, the 10-year outlook is bright, according to analyst firm SNL Kagan, with recent findings indicating that the industry’s broadband advantage and bundling stance will enhance revenues from 2016 to 2026. The revised cable forecast incorporates a
Dial Square 86 Limited, the holding company for The RightsXchange Limited (TRX), has confirmed that pay-TV broadcaster Sky and UK public service broadcaster Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund have invested in the company’s latest financing round, which will raise up to £5.2 million (€6.03m) for TRX. TRX is a new global online deal-making tool that […]
A City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) operation has led to the arrest of three people who are suspected to have orchestrated the distribution and transmission of thousands of illegally modified TV set-top boxes to people worldwide. Detectives from PIPCU executed a series of dawn raids on 10 August, at a business […]
In its latest effort to combat piracy further, US pay-TV operator DISH has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Loolbox streaming device, which unlawfully retransmits numerous Arabic TV channels. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas and names Defendants Lool Tech Co., Limited and Shenzhen […]
CEO Reed Hastings has suggested that in the future, Internet TV services such as Netflix will be akin to the mobile phone, eventually becoming the natural way of viewing. Speaking to the Sunday Times in the UK, Hastings said the beauty of on-demand viewing, and what propelled Netflix, was “being able to watch when you […]
The European Commission has found that a Spanish scheme compensating terrestrial private broadcasters for carrying out parallel broadcasting during the digitisation of the terrestrial television signal is in breach of EU state aid rules. As no aid has been granted yet, no recovery will be required. “This measure provided a selective advantage to terrestrial broadcasters […]
International broadband and programming company Liberty Global has reported Q2 Organic RGU additions of 277,000, a two-fold increase versus 138,000 in Q2 2015 which it says were, aided by new build, with “substantial” year-over-year improvement driven by the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. It also reported that its next-generation video base surpassed seven million subscribers […]
Consumer spending on home entertainment products was strong for the second quarter of 2016, rising six per cent from the year earlier period, according to the Second Quarter 2016 Home Entertainment Report compiled by members of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, tracking sources and retail input. Boding well for the home
A pub landlady in the UK Midlands city of Birmingham has been fined £50,000 (€58,940) after being caught illegally showing football on Sky Sports, having earlier received a final warning for committing an identical offence. She was also told to pay £24,000 costs for breaching copyright by showing the Premier League games. Sky Sports brought […]
In close collaboration with product and editorial teams from BBC Sport, BBC Live and BBC News – and along with colleagues in Engineering and User Experience & Design – BBC Design & Engineering has reimagined the BBC’s connected TV experience ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, relaunching its News, Sport and, most recently, Red […]