Alex Green, director of TV for BT Retail, has promised massive transformation for BT’s pay TV service to take on Sky. <div> <a href=”//ad.doubleclick.net/N3834/jump/broadeng.home/news/business_announcements;pos=180_1;ptype=article;page=/business-announcements/uk-pay-tv-war-heats;sz=300×250,180×150;tile=1;ord=123456789?” target=”_blank”> <img src=”//ad.doubleclick.net/N3834/ad/broadeng.home/news/business_announcements;pos=180_1;ptype=article;page=/business-announcements/uk-pay-tv-war-heats;sz=300×250,180×150;tile=1;ord=123456789?” border=”0″ alt=””/></a> </div> The UK’s pay-TV operators are squaring up for battle as they compete with words, prices and OTT offerings as well [...]
People want their television to work like a TV. Sending tweets on Twitter, posting photos on Facebook and browsing the Web are best left to smartphones and tablets. Indeed, more than 40% of U.S. households with Internet-enabled TVs haven’t even bothered to hook them up to the Web, according to market researcher [...]
Despite all of the talk about cord-cutting, a new report from Digital TV Research states that the number of pay-TV subscribers in North America will continue to increase – albeit at a slow rate. However, the Digital TV North America report states that pay TV penetration will remain flat. Simon [...]
MTG’s Viasat Premium HD package will become available to Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) IPTV and digital cable subscribers in Russia in May. The package, which comprises Viasat’s two premium HD movie channels (TV1000 Premium HD and TV1000 Megahit HD), dedicated comedy channel (TV1000 Comedy HD) and two documentary channels (Viasat History [...]
Fashion One has announced its expansion in Europe during APOS 2013 with the launch on Splius’ pay TV platform in Lithuania. The channel will be available in both the basic and HD package servicing the audience in Siauliai region of Northern Lithuania serving the cities of Šiauliai, Klaip?da, Radviliškis, Kurš?nai, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—As the industry has grappled to keep abreast of the next new thing when it comes to multiplatform services, technology has morphed into a solution that content creators can no longer afford to ignore—a seamless means of delivering content via broadband that offers a complementary marriage to the broadcast [...]
Over 70% of pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe able to receive multiscreen services such as TV Everywhere. According to Parks Associates multiscreen availability topped 25% of pay-TV households in early 2013 in Eastern Europe. However, ARPU remains low, pushing many operators to test new business models such as a la [...]
Companies such as Netflix, Hulu, Apple, and Amazon helped drive the OTT video market past $8 billion in 2012, according to ABI Research. The three largest markets—North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific—experienced YoY growth in excess of 50% in 2012. The continued spread of connected CE and increasingly mobile devices, like [...]
What does the future hold in store for pay-TV services in Russia? Statistics on the market and how it is evolving are published on a regular basis, with the latest, produced by IAA TelecomDaily, pointing to there being 31.7 million subscribers at the end of Q1. This translated into a [...]
