From Nick Snow in Berlin The finance panel here at Cable Congress was a frank but fairly upbeat affair. It is no secret that with most MSOs controlled by highly leveraged private equity capex is going to be scarce. John Hahn of Providence (which has major positions in KDG and ONO) confirmed as much, “investment […]
Foxtel CEO Kim Williams has slated the new, Australian free to air digital television consortium Freeview, claiming that “no one has noticed” most of the FTA digital channels which are already running. Speaking at the annual ASTRA conference, Williams said Freeview was being marketed with “over claims” of 15 new channels: “Twelve of the fifteen […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Movie rentals via the Videoclube VOD service of Portuguese IPTV operator Meo have registered a new record with more than 5000 clients watching 'Mamma Mia' and 'The Dark Knight, in four days. In total, more than two million videos have already been rented by Meo clients, who can select movies […]
The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 5.2 per cent or 200,100 net additions during the fourth quarter to a total 4.014 million at the end of 2008. At the same time, digital TV increased its share of the entire TV market to 50.9 per cent, passing analogue TV as the […]
GlobeCast has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite. Leading European broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the new transponder's first client. The new C-band platform on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5° E with a footprint covering the Middle East to East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, is a premium broadcast platform for the […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator in Japan based on the number of customers served, has announced that the total subscribing households as of February 28th, 2009 served by J:COM's 24 consolidated franchises reached approximately 3.18 million, up 478,700, or 17.7 per cent since February 29th, 2008.
Fixed satellite services provider Intelsat has reported revenue of $608.8 million and a net loss of $524.2 million for the three months ended December 31st, 2008. The net loss includes non-cash charges of $326.8 million for orbital location impairments and $186.6 million for a loss on undesignated interest rate swaps. The company also reported EBITDA […]
Video on demand services have now been used by half the population of Britain, with millions of viewers claiming to use the service every month, according to a survey, commissioned by industry regulator ATVOD, which shows that 50 per cent of the population have used on-demand services, with 20 per cent using them every week. […]
From Nick Snow in Berlin Tony Ball, chairman of KDG, got the 50th Cable Congress underway by cheerfully admitting he had spent much of his career (at Sky) trying to make cable fail. Now, of course, he’s changed his mind and is particularly proud KDG has invested over E1bn in its network – with no […]
Tony Cohen, the chief executive of FremantleMedia, the production company of shows such as X-Factor, has called on the UK government to consider a system of charging consumers as little as 5p to view TV shows on-demand. Cohen, revealing details of FremantleMedia’s submission to the Digital Britain report, said there was a case to look […]