A study exploring consumer attitudes towards pay-TV services, with particular emphasis on consumer perceptions of telcos as providers of TV services, has found that price of service and discounts are particularly important for attracting new subscribers. The Making TV Pay study marks the first survey to explore the mindset of pay-TV subscribers after the credit […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid SES Astra is to make a formal complaint before the European competition authorities against the Spanish Government for its alleged preferential treatment to Abertis Telecom in the deployment of DTT in the country. The Luxembourg-based company has accused the Spanish Administration of helping out its main competitor in the […]
YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by Hulu – backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal – as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers. Hulu, a video site showing only professional TV shows and movies, is forecast to draw level with Google's YouTube in US advertising […]
Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, hopes to expand internationally and is interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan. Peter Smith, President of NBC Universal International, told reporters that his firm would love to roll out the online video joint venture further but that there were no concrete plans to […]
ITV has signed an agreement with BT to supply a range of current and library programming to customers of BT's digital TV service, BT Vision – ITV's first deal of this type with a VOD operator. BT Vision customers will also be able to enjoy a range of library content on demand.
A consistent theme of this year's CASBAA convention was affirmation of the strong consumer base from which the Asian industry is working in late 2008. "We now have a customer-base of 300 million pay-TV connections across Asia Pacific creating a minimum annual turnover of more than $20 billion year," said Simon Twiston Davies, CEO of […]
The continuing costs related to the hacking of its encryption system took Premiere to its fourth consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter. A negative EBITDA of E27.2 million in Q3 2008 compared to the positive E22m in the same quarter of last year. Increased costs on transmission, hardware and sales pushed operating costs up […]
Intelsat has reported revenue of $598.5 million and a net loss of $179.3 million for the three months ended September 30th, 2008. The company also reported EBITDA of $406.3 million. “Intelsat’s third quarter results showed strength and stability as we improved revenue by 10 percent, grew Adjusted EBITDA by 11 percent, and increased our contract […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain is to inject another E6 million into a new media campaign during Christmas to raise public awareness of the advantages of DTT with view to the forthcoming analogue switch-off in 2010. In 2009, the Administration will allocate a E75 million budget for the development of DTT which is […]
Discovery has taken BSkyB to the High Court over a disagreement about the companies’ advertising sales contract.Sky Media has sold advertising for Discovery’s TV channels since 2006. The current deal expires at the end of 2009. It is understood that the dispute centres on a clause that allows Sky Media to cap the amount of […]