Business
Canal Plus acquires pay-TV operator M7 Group
Brings Canal Plus’ customer base to 12 million across Europe
pay TV
Data Centre
Telcos ‘will control 56 per cent of Western Europe’s pay-TV subscribers by 2024’
Pay-TV revenues to decline by 13.1 per cent over five years
Business
OTT monitoring and compliance market ‘to expand by 16 per cent in five years’
Frost & Sullivan forecasts the market to reach $149.7 million by 2024
Data Centre
Europeans juggle ‘multiple TV services to get the content they want’
On-screen programme guides and UIs remain critical tools for finding content to watch
Data Centre
A quarter of UK households ‘likely to cancel pay-TV service’
Parks Associates publishes IoT in the UK - Entertainment Products and Services report
Data Centre
Cord-cutting on the rise in Europe
The UK saw a net decline of 424,000 pay-TV homes in 2018
Business
Comcast plans NBC-Sky news channel
Comcast's revenues boosted by Sky acquisition in late 2018
News
TVBEverywhere
Nick+ launches on Cosmote TV in Greece
Gives subscribers access to over 400 hours of Nickelodeon content across streaming devices
Data Centre
Eastern European pay-TV revenues ‘will peak in 2019’
Expected to fall to $6.59 billion by 2024
TVBEverywhere
Virgin Media TV integrates Amazon Prime Video
Makes Amazon's streaming service available to four million Virgin customers
Data Centre
Danish SVoD spend rises 30 per cent
Accounted for a fifth of total video consumer spend in 2018
Production & Post
Viacom to open Manchester and Madrid production centres
Expansion planned to support English and Spanish-language production
Business
NAGRA and MTM launch 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum
Programme will research the challenges facing pay-TV service providers
Data Centre
Third of all TV watched in the UK is now streamed
Customer dissatisfaction with the content on pay-TV packages is driving up popularity of streaming services
TVBEverywhere
STV unveils ad-free SVoD service
STV Player+ will allow subscribers to view STV content in Europe
Features
It’s showtime for pay-per-view, and for carrier billing
By Anthony Baladi, commercial director, Fonix
Business
BT Sport selects Paywizard for pay-per-view support
Provides BT Sport with a full subscriber onboarding service
Data Centre
IPTV named fastest-growing pay-TV platform of 2018
Analysis by Kagan breaks down the multichannel economy's five-year future
Data Centre
‘Inevitable’ 2019 will see SVoD and D2C casualties
3Vision's TV Industry Trends surveyed senior media executives for their views on the media landscape in 2019
Content
D2C services set to disrupt pay-TV market in 2019
Impact of D2C products is likely "to come to a head" with the expected launch of Disney+ later this year
Technology
VO partners with Technicolor for simplified Android TV delivery
Provides highest security levels for premium video content protection
Features
Why the ‘superabundance’ of content is proving tricky
Simon Trudelle, senior director product marketing at NAGRA, looks at why effective media asset management is crucial for pay-TV operators and content owners
TVBEverywhere
Europe’s TV subscriptions to hit 262 million
SVoD subscribers predicted to triple between 2015 and 2018
Business
MPs and peers call for PSB content protection
Group has sent letter to culture secretary urging him to stand up to the streaming giants
Technology
NAGRA protects new Sky Italia DVB-T pay-TV service
New service is secured by NAGRA's broadcast and direct-to-TV content protection technologies
Data Centre
Global TV revenues to hit $265 billion in 2018
Revenues will increase by $9 million year-on-year according to new report
Data Centre
Western Europe TV revenues predicted to reach $50 billion by 2023
OTT revenues for TV episodes and movies (including AVOD) will more than double to $23 billion
Data Centre
Streaming is a supplement, not a replacement for traditional TV say consumers
Consumer choice is driven by performance and pricing issues
Data Centre
Broadcast remains the bedrock of live sport viewing
New market survey by analysts CSG looks at sports consumption in the UK and US
Features
Innovating business models to meet evolving consumer demands
Freesat managing director Alistair Thom on why Free TV in the UK is a stronger proposition than ever before
Data Centre
Pay-TV competition to intensify as innovation remains vital
NAGRA's 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum identifies six key innovation areas in the industry
TVBEverywhere
Zenterio helps COSMOTE TV deliver Smart Remote experience
New EUROBOX allows pay-TV service to support on-demand content
News Releases
Amino demonstrates latest pay-TV innovations
Amino has announced that it will showcase its next-generation solutions portfolio at IBC 2018, demonstrating how it enables pay-TV operators to meet the demands...
Content
M7 Group adds Epic Drama to Skylink platform
Deal extends the TV provider’s reach in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Business
Freeview interest spikes in wake of Virgin-UKTV spat
UKTV is said to be losing around £1m a week
TVBEverywhere
Comcast adds Amazon Prime Video to Xfinity X1 service
Becomes the first US pay-TV service to offer the streaming-video app
Data Centre
Consumers rate OTT services higher than pay-TV operators
Research shows that both still struggle with customer experience
Data Centre
Streamer subscriber numbers overtake pay-TV in the UK
Ofcom also reveals average daily broadcast viewing on a TV set fell by nine minutes in 2017