From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish dominant broadcast network operator, Abertis Telecom, has backed out of the deal reached with two local broadcast networks in Andalucia and Madrid, Axion and Teledifusion de Madrid, to take over them, following the Competition Authorities imposing tougher conditions on the operation. Abertis Telecom had planned to take […]
The pay-TV merger between Showtime Arabia and rival Orbit has concluded. The deal was announced last month, although no official valuation was given. Showtime Arabia had reportedly bought out its Viacom minority partner in its Gulf-DTH operation. Kipco, an investment vehicle ultimately controlled by the Kuwait royal family which already controlled 75.3% of Gulf-DTH.
From David Del Valle in Madrid The consolidation of Spanish TV is turning out to be more complicated than expected. Prisa, owner of commercial TV channel Cuatro and DTH platform Digital Plus, and Imagina, ultimate owner of TV channel La Sexta, have abandoned their negotiations to merge their TV divisions, Cuatro and La Sexta. Disagreements […]
From David del Valle in Madrid In common with other European countries, Spain is to have pay-DTT services on its digital terrestrial TV platform, with the first ones likely to be launched by the end of this month, coinciding with the beginning of the Spanish 'La Liga' football . The Government has approved a Royal […]
Sky Media and Discovery’s TV ad sales current deal expires at the end of 2009 and no renewal yet agreed, the two companies are at loggerheads over the amount of ad revenue Sky Media pays Discovery. Discovery, which is believed to be claiming up to £14m (E16.3m) in unpaid ad revenue, took Sky Media to […]
EchoStar and its spin-off Dish Network declared their half-yearly results with profits down but subscription numbers up. EchoStar Corp, which operates the satellites more than doubled its profits in Q2 earning $101.8m (against $47.8m the same period last year). But the company's revenues fell 21% to $383m from $483.3m. The company blamed lower set-top box […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The consolidation of Spanish TV is turning out to be more complicated than expected. Prisa, owner of commercial TV channel Cuatro and DTH platform Digital Plus, and Imagina, ultimate owner of TV channel La Sexta, have abandoned their negotiations to merge their TV divisions, Cuatro and La Sexta. Disagreements […]
Sky Media and Discovery’s TV ad sales current deal expires at the end of 2009 and no renewal yet agreed, the two companies are at loggerheads over the amount of ad revenue Sky Media pays Discovery. Discovery, which is believed to be claiming up to £14m (E16.3m) in unpaid ad revenue, took Sky Media to […]
EchoStar and its spin-off Dish Network declared their half-yearly results with profits down but subscription numbers up. EchoStar Corp, which operates the satellites more than doubled its profits in Q2 earning $101.8m (against $47.8m the same period last year). But the company's revenues fell 21% to $383m from $483.3m. The company blamed lower set-top box […]
Following a nine month study, PA Consulting Group has completed a report for UK's Ofcom to predict any potential pressure on spectrum availability across the UK over the next 15 to 20 years. Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, and PA's report shows both supply and demand for spectrum under a number of different […]