Business
Sony Pictures Television sells Central, Eastern Europe portfolio to Antenna Group
Deal covers 22 pay-TV channels and two OTT services in 12 territories, including the AXN and Viasat legacy brands
Eastern Europe
Media Delivery
Disney Plus, HBO Max to drive Eastern Europe SVoD subs
Digital TV Research forecasts 40 million SVoD subscriptions in the region by 2026 by 2026
Media Consumption
Eastern Europe predicted to add 16 million SVoD subs by 2025
Subscriptions predicted to more than double from the 10.26 million recorded by end-2019
Data Centre
Eastern European OTT revenues to triple in five years
Expected to reach $3.58 billion in 2025
Data Centre
Eastern Europe “to add 10 million digital pay-TV subscribers” by 2025
Digital TV Research expects Russia to account for half of region’s pay-TV subscribers
Business
Comcast CEO discusses possible European Sky expansion
Brian Roberts tells investors: "We bought Sky to try to grow it"
Data Centre
Eastern European pay-TV revenues ‘will peak in 2019’
Expected to fall to $6.59 billion by 2024
TVBEverywhere
Rakuten TV expands, plans to carry 8K films
8K films expected on the service in the second half of 2019
Business
Liberty Global ‘preparing to sell satellite business’
Company is said to be looking to offload its eastern Europe satellite business
Data Centre
Eastern Europe to add 17 million pay-TV subs over next five years
Overall figure expected to hit 78.08 million by 2023
TVBEverywhere
Eastern Europe to lose one million pay-TV subs
The report claims that the TV sector will suffer from a "knock-on effect" from the the poor job prospects in Eastern Europe