French commercial broadcaster TF1 reported a strong operating profit despite a big drop in advertising revenues. TF1’s group ad-revenues fell year-on-year by 41 per cent, but the broadcaster was helped by a stronger programming slate and internal cost-savings. Management comments suggest that the ad-market is slowly recovering but would not be drawn on the outlook […]
July 22nd saw Eutelsat announce that French telco Orange had taken all of the available capacity targeting France on Eutelsat’s current ‘Konnect’ satellite. Sami Kassab, an equity analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, says that while neither party disclosed the size or value of the contract the deal was likely to involve 5-10Gb/s of High Throughput […]
Telco giant Orange is partnering with satellite operator Eutelsat to offer consumers satellite-based broadband. The agreement is a major commitment from Orange. Orange has purchased from Eutelsat all the available capacity on the recently launched Eutelsat Konnect satellite to cover the entire French territory. “It will enable Orange’s consumer customer base, even those living in […]
French entertainment company Satisfaction Group, founded by producer and TV anchorman Arthur Essebag, has acquired Sony Pictures Television France’s unscripted activity as well as STP company Starling. Satisfaction Group now becomes the exclusive producer of SPT’s formats in France and, in parallel, Sony Pictures Television takes a 20 per cent of its stake in Satisfy. […]
The French Film and audiovisual sectors (TV, radio, video) have suffered a €4.9 billion drop in activity during the Covid-19 crisis, which represents 20 per cent of their global 2020 turnover. The figures released by French ministry of Culture, working on the hypothesis that there won’t be a second lockdown, forecasts that the Covid-19 impact […]
The Spanish Administration is looking into DTT signal interference in Asturias, north of Spain, from a French DTT network. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has reported the problem to the French Government. While the problems are being solved, the Asturias Administration has proposed to increase signal strength, change the polarity and even […]
The THEMA company, a specialist in the distribution of multicultural offers, has announced the launch of Maghreb VOD on Le Bouquet Maghreb+ at Bouygues Telecom. The subscribers of the package Le Bouquet Maghreb+ of Bouygues Telecom can now access more than 200 pieces of content in Arabic stemming from North-African and Middle East channels. This […]
France’s telecoms regulator Arcep’s annual status report on the French telecoms market shows that in 2019, operators in France invested €500 million more than in 2018, for an overall total (excluding spending on frequencies) of €10.4 billion. Investments in nominal terms have increased by close to 50 per cent in five years. For the third […]
Spotify is racking up major gains in France’s music streaming market, driving the growth of the business and overtaking rival service Deezer on its home turf. In November 2019 Spotify rose to take 13 per cent of the online audience in France, exceeding Deezer by 1 percentage point, as reported by Omdia’s Consumer Research – […]
French PSB group France Télévisions has launched on its digital portal for international territories. The service was initially slated for a March 31st launch, which was consequently delayed by the Covid-19 outbreak. Branded Outre-mer la 1ère, like France Télévisions’ overseas TV channels, the multi-format OTT platform looks to give a future to France Ô channel […]