The pay-TV service of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset should end the year 2011 with a 20 per cent growth in revenues over the previous year. The prediction has come from Mediaset vice president, Piersilvio Berlusconi, during a press conference to present the autumn programme schedules to advertisers. According to Berlusconi, the number of subscriptions reached […]
Pay-TV giant Sky has confirmed it will launch the new Sky Anytime service in Austria and Germany this August. This will allow customers to access on-demand content through their Sky+ HD PVR. Sky Anytime will let users view selected films, entertainment and sports content from their subscription package on-demand. The service is accessible direct through […]
Spanish pay-TV gained subscribers in 2010 but failed to increase its total revenues, according to the latest report from the CMT (Telecommunications Market Commission). The number of pay TV subs grew by 7.7 per cent to 4.5 million, 10.4 per cent to 5 million including mobile TV. Pay DTT, cable and IPTV were the winners […]
ABI Research has released the first part of its “Technology Barometer: Digital Living” study which surveyed 2000 consumers in the US about consumer electronic products in their households, home networking, and connected devices. Despite the attention given to-cord cutting, this trend has not generated the momentum some expected: in this survey only 10 per cent […]
A report by Enders Analysis predicts BSkyB earnings will double over the next five years. It says EBITDA will balloon from 2010’s £845 million (€953m) to £1.7 billion in 2015 from revenues up from £5.7 billion to £8.1 billion in the same period. Veteran analyst Toby Syfret believes the earnings will flow as a period […]
According to Digital TV Research Ltd (DTVR), pay-TV revenues will climb to $173 billion in 2016, up by $49 billion on 2006 but only up by $18 billion (12 per cent) on 2010. The Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report – covering 73 countries – suggests that on-demand revenues will increase much faster than subscription […]
Almost on the eve of the UK government giving News Corp permission to start a bargaining process to acquire the 61 per cent of BSkyB that it doesn’t already own, James Murdoch says that News Corp isn’t by any measure big enough to really compete on the world stage. Speaking at the Cannes International Festival […]
Viaccess has been awarded the conditional access security and DRM contract for Skynindo, Indonesia. The deal was signed at CommunicAsia, in Singapore. Skynindo, an Indonesian pay-TV platform, was (soft) relaunched in November 2010, and formally launched on January 1 this year under a new licence and using MPEG4 compression. It is offering a portfolio of […]
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 87 per cent of households nationwide subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a multi-channel video service is similar to last year, and up from 80 per cent in 2004. Non-subscribers to multi-channel services tend to have […]
News Corp has agreed with regulators the final terms of a merger remedy to allow it to proceed with its proposed bid for British Sky Broadcasting, reports the FT. The document has been passed by Ofcom to the office of Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, with an announcement that he will put the revised remedy […]