Liberty Global has posted its preliminary unaudited consolidated financial and operating results for the year and three months ended December 31st 2012. Liberty expects to publish final consolidated results for 2012 on February 13th. Highlights for the full year and Q4 compared to the same period for 2011 include: Organic RGU additions increased 34 per […]
ESPN is considering quitting the UK as the sports network racks up losses and after having lost key sports rights contacts, reports the FT. The Walt Disney company is disenchanted with no progress against Sky and then being outbid for BT for secondary football rights. Most recently it also lost mobile rights when it was […]
According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month (for an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017. The expected steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued […]
Sky and Formula 1 will bring viewers another world first with live F1 coverage on Sky 3D from the third test at the Circuit de Catalunya Sky 3D viewers can watch live coverage of Formula 1 across all four days of the third test from February 28th to March 3rd at the Circuit de Catalunya. […]
The worldwide Pay-TV market grew at a steady pace in 2012 generating $238 billion by end-of-year, up from $223 billion in 2011, according to ABI Research’s Pay-TV ARPU and Revenues Market Data. The global Pay-TV market is expected to generate $304 billion in 2018 with a CAGR of 4 per cent. Service revenue contributions from […]
Nativ, the media management and workflow expert, has published an independent report outlining the shortcomings and challenges of Internet delivery and is setting out its vision for helping the market overcome these. In recent years the consumption of content over Internet-enabled devices has exploded. There is a rush to dominate the Internet TV service proposition […]
On the one hand the demand for video-on-the-move is growing exponentially says a new report from Juniper Research. Juniper says the number of users of mobile video calling services is forecast to increase four-fold to almost 160 million by 2017, driven by improvements in both the user-interface and the underlying technology. However, while advertising and […]
Channel 4 has launched a dedicated 4oD application for Android tablets and smartphones – 16 months after making its debut on iOS. The free app hosts a wide selection of programmes from Channel 4, E4 and More4, past and present, and is now available to download from Google Play and will soon be available from […]
Arianespace is preparing to launch two satellites on February 7th: Amazonas-3 for Spain’s Hispasat, and AzerSat/Africasat-1a for a consortium that’s headed by Azerbaijan interests. Lift-off is scheduled during the rocket’s launch window which opens at 18.36pm Kourou-time (22.36 Paris-time). Amazonas-3 is a powerful craft designed to replace Amazonas-1 and expand the number of transponders at […]
Dailymotion, the online video portal, is showing the friendly football match between France and Germany live from the Stade de France, Paris, on Wednesday 6th February. The game can be viewed free of charge to all fans watching via a connected device in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands. Dailymotion secured the rights to the […]