Slow subscriber growth hit shares in Sky Deutschland even as the German pay-TV broadcaster reiterated it aimed to be profitable by 2011 after a sweeping restructuring. The company rebranded itself from Premiere to Sky Deutschland in July and launched a huge marketing campaign to win more customers in Europe’s largest TV market. That drive, as […]

A Screen Digest analysis focused on the Central and Eastern European pay-TV market shows that the recent rapid growth in new satellite TV market entrants in Central and Eastern Europe shows no signs of slowing down. There are at least four new satellite players due to launch in the region in the next few weeks […]

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has published new data for subscription TV penetration across the Asia Pacific, noting that the region now has 326 million pay-TV, up 26 million homes in 2009. According to CASBAA estimates, backed by global data, subscription television in Asia Pacific now reaches more homes than the […]

According to TGI Latina, a consumer study covering the region's media industry, Discovery Channel ranked as the number one pay TV channel in viewer satisfaction and weekly viewership throughout the region. Discovery Channel has occupied the top position in the TGI rankings throughout each of the ten years the study has been published. The survey […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid In the second quarter of the year pay-TV lost 120,000 subs, 90 per cent of them from the DTH platform Digital Plus and cable company ONO, according to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) Only IPTV operators Jazztelia TV and Telefonica's Imagenio achieved a slight increase their subscription base reaching […]

Mark Watson, CEO of BT Vision, has told the FT it the platfrom will fail to hit a target set by Ian Livingston, the BT Group chief executive, to have 2-3m customers by December 2010. "We won't hit 2-3m customers over that time," he says. He blames the failure to hit the target partly on […]

Virgin Media and BT have attacked BSkyB's pricing mechanism for its premium channels in a joint submission to Ofcom's pay-TV inquiry. The companies say Sky's "near monopoly" restricts consumer choice and keeps prices high. Ofcom has already recommended it should regulate the wholesale price of Sky's premium channels. The two companies, plus Freeview provider Top-Up […]

BSkyB is reported to be undertaking a major rebrand in a bid to create a warmer and more customer-friendly brand image. The satellite giant is planning to refresh the Sky logo for a new marketing campaign in the lead up to the Christmas season. Some have reported the campaign as attempt to replace the BBC […]

Research shows that India's TV market is expected to experience growth in all sectors until 2013. The Indian economy is weathering the worldwide downturn far better than almost any major country and is forecast to grow 4.3 per cent in 2009 and 6.5 per cent the following year; lower than past rates, but much better […]

Pay-TV revenue in the UK will climb from $6.2 billion in 2009 to $8.2 billion by 2014 as IPTV grows at a CAGR of 26 percent within the forecast period, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research. The U.K. communications market is one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic markets, expected to generate US$47.1 […]