Advanced Television

Switzerland

CH Media, Sunrise UPC partnership

CH Media and Sunrise UPC are entering into a long-term strategic partnership to drive the expansion of Swiss streaming service, oneplus, from CH Media and to enhance the portfolio and the customer offering of Sunrise UPC. As part of the new partnership, oneplus will become an integral component of the Sunrise product range in the […]

March 4, 2022

Liberty Global “in great shape”

Liberty Global has announced its Q4 2021 financial results, saying it achieved all 2021 guidance targets including increased Adjusted Free Cash Flow. CEO, Mike Fries, stated: “Our fourth quarter and full year results demonstrated continued commercial momentum across our FMC champions. Operationally, we delivered 306,000 aggregate broadband and postpaid mobile subscribers during Q4 and over […]

February 18, 2022

Swisscom’s Internet Box 4 powered by SoftAtHome

SoftAtHome, an independent software company for broadband, video, and analytics, played an active part in Swisscom’s Internet-Box 4 launch in Switzerland. The new Internet-Box for fibre-optic subscribers allows a superfast WLAN with the Wi-Fi 6 standard. The new fibre-optic box features a 10 Gbps Ethernet port and the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard, offering a faster […]

February 15, 2022

SPORT1 scores FIFA Club World Cup rights

SPORT1, the German sports platform, has acquired the rights for the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021 from the agency Dentsu exclusively in Germany and non-exclusively in Austria and Switzerland. The two semi-finals and the final, the decisive phase of the tournament, which takes place from February 3rd to 12th in the UAE, will be […]

January 25, 2022

yallo expands Gbit speed Internet throughout Switzerland

Four months after the launch of yallo TV, yallo is expanding its position as a full-service provider in Switzerland. Christoph Richartz, Chief YOL Officer at Sunrise UPC, commented: “Thanks to the hybrid fibre network from Sunrise UPC, we can now reach more than twice as many households with gigabit-speed Internet. This will complete our portfolio […]

January 24, 2022

Analyst: Brits need 102m TikTok views to earn annual salary

The rise of TikTok has rapidly revolutionised the world of social media, offering a range of opportunities to its users. Interested in income streams from social media platforms, Cashfloat utilised the latest analytics data from Lickd to establish how many TikTok views citizens from across 43 European countries would need on their account to earn the […]

December 17, 2021

Sunrise UPC expands 4K gaming via 5G

Sunrise UPC, the Swiss telcom, has launched its cloud gaming service with 4K resolution via 5G, for iOS (iPhone, iPads) and MacOS devices (MacBooks, iMacs, etc.). Over 100 games are now available via 5G or Wi-Fi on almost all mobile devices and – also new – directly on all Samsung smart TV models. Two new […]

December 6, 2021

Germany: SPORT1 lands MLB rights

SPORT1 has acquired the rights to Major League Baseball (MLB) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the next five seasons – from 2022 up to and including 2026 – with exclusive rights for linear broadcasting on pay-TV and free-TV in Germany. On pay-TV on SPORT1+ and on the multisports streaming platform SPORT1 Extra, which was […]

November 11, 2021

ProSiebenSat.1 raises FY outlook again

ProSiebenSat.1 Media continued its revenue and earnings growth in the third quarter of 2021. The Group generated a considerable revenue increase of 15 per cent to €1.05 billion (previous year: €921 million), with the advertising business in particular growing strongly and improving even better than expected after the effects of the pandemic. In the Entertainment […]

November 4, 2021

Sunrise UPC continues “market momentum”

Liberty Global’s Sunrise UPC continues to grow and increase customer numbers with a Q3 net increase of 43,200 mobile postpaid customers and 6,900 broadband and enhanced TV subscriptions. The Swiss cable operator saw net growth of 73,000 broadband, TV and mobile RGUs overall. Q3 revenue hit CHF 762.5 million (€722.4m), in line with the previous […]

November 4, 2021