The number of pay-TV subs in North America [Canada and the US] will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 102 million in 2022 according to Digital TV Research. Although this marks a 9 per cent decline, this does not indicate a massive cord-cutting problem. However, the number […]
Satellite operator SES is stepping up the number of its North American Ultra HD delivery service provider trials with the announcement of a collaborative agreement with telco Verizon aimed at driving the overall development of Ultra HD delivery solutions for Verizon Fios subscribers throughout the US. Verizon is among a recent wave of multichannel video […]
Edgeware, a specialist in TV content delivery networks (CDN), has joined the Streaming Video Alliance. The Alliance is a member-based industry body that develops, publishes, and promotes open standards, policies, and best practices that foster collaboration within the streaming video ecosystem and support continued consumer adoption. Through its Alliance membership, Edgeware will be joining media […]
Satellite operator SES says its spacecraft are now delivering TV entertainment and news programming to more than 1 billion people and 325 million homes. SES says that this is an 18 per cent growth over the position at the end of 2012. Their data was released by SES’s Senior Market & Business Analyst, Ricardo Topham, […]
Comcast Technology Solutions and Qvest Media, a systems architect in the fields of broadcasting and media technology, have entered into an international channel deal. With an initial focus on the Middle East and Asia, Qvest Media will serve as an international reseller and systems integrator of Comcast Technology Solutions video management system, one of the […]
According to findings from Leichtman Research Group (LRG), the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 795,000 net video subscribers in 2016, compared to a pro forma loss of about 445,000 subscribers in 2015. The top pay-TV providers account for 93.6 million subscribers – […]
Canada’s publicly traded television service providers as a whole continued to lose a record number of TV subscribers in 2016 but the trends shifted as the cable companies lost considerably fewer subscribers and the IPTV providers saw subscriber growth slow significantly. Research from Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services shows the big […]
End-to-end OTT TV solutions provider SPB TV’s survey of a sample of 50,000 respondents out of its 60 million-user base digs looking for insights that elucidate viewer preferences highlight a growing demand for the ‘TV catch-up’ feature. Key findings: Content Anytime – Not a Feature, But a Habit The most striking finding of this year […]
According to data from Dataxis for the year ending 2016, Africa pay-TV subscribers stand at approximately 18.7 million subscribers which represent an increase of approximately 2 million subscribers compared to the previous year. Out of the 18.7 million subscribers, 14 million are DTH subscribers and the remaining represent mostly pay DTT with limited cable and […]
BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the Corporation has launched BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore in 2016. The multi-genre service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated SVoD service. Hypp TV viewers will […]