The addition of HDTV channels and PVR capabilities are giving a new boost to Spain’s digital satellite platform Digital Plus. As a whole, the company added 29,468 new clients in January in comparison with a loss of over 15,000 subscribers the same period last year. Out of the total growth, 10,662 new subs are to […]
New Spanish provider Starmax HD which aims to offer contract-freepay-TV has named its technical partners: Ferguson, Globecast and Conax. Ferguson will be responsible for the production of the decoders, which in addition to HD channels from Starmax, allow viewers access to many satellite broadcast channels as well as DTT channels in both Standard Definition and […]
Ireland’s TV3 has condemned Communications Minister Pat Carey’s decision to approve RTE’s proposed five “free to air” channels as part of the Digital Terrestrial Television roll-out. TV3 said it was “shocked” that the state broadcaster would be allowed to run the new TV channels. Carey approved the roll-out of high definition RTE Two HD Select, […]
France Telecom has reported strong growth in profit for 2010, driven mainly by higher gain on the formation of Orange and T-Mobile joint venture in the UK as well as strong revenue performance in rest of the world segment. For the year, net income attributable to owners of the parent increased to €4.88 billion from […]
Disney has acquired kids social network Togetherville. The purchase follows the restructuring of Disney’s digital division Disney Interactive Media Group, which saw focus shift away from games consoles and expand its offering across online, mobile and social media. Togetherville launched last May as a social network for children under ten. Its purchase is viewed as […]
Figures released by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) show that global box office receipts for all films released around the world reached an all time high of $31.8 billion, an increase of eight per cent over 2009. The US/Canada market repeated its peak performance from last year, but remained flat at $10.6 billion. […]
As expected, Sky Deutschland has confirmed greater losses for the year (to December 31st 2010), despite managing to grow sales revenues impressively up 8 per cent (to €977.8m) with Q4 revenue well ahead of 2009’s effort at €263.7 million (€230m in 2009). But the headlines will be the widening losses, with EBITDA loss at €268.6 […]
The Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision and Open TV, announced its 2010 results with total revenues revenues flat but EBITDA up 25 per cent at CHF173 million (€135m). There was strong organic growth in the Digital TV division, posting a sales growth of 6.8 per cent. This was in contrast with weaker growth rates in […]
Along with the impressive DirecTV results, released yesterday, the numbers are also in for Sky Mexico, a joint-venture between Televisa and DirecTV. Sky Mexico has topped 3 million subs (3.04m) as at December 31st, and a huge 35.6 per cent jump since 2009 (where DTH subs totalled 1.95m). A joint press release from Mexico City […]
A group of 34 movie studios has lost its appeal against an Australian Federal Court judgment involving Internet Service Provider iiNet. A 2010 ruling found it was impossible to hold iiNet responsible for its users illegally downloading movies and television shows. The studios had tried to prove iiNet not only failed to take steps to […]