Global pay-TV revenues up $32bn
Pay-TV revenues for 138 countries increased by $32 billion (€28.56bn) between 2010 and 2016 to reach $202 billion. However, only $1.23 billion was added in 2016, according to the Global…
Global pay TV revenues ‘to peak in 2017′
Global pay TV revenues will peak in 2017, but will not decline rapidly in the five years afterwards due to gains in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to…
Spain Fights Illegal IPTV Operations
The Spanish National Police and Europol have announced a successful raid of one of the largest European illegal IPTV streaming businesses with 12 locations raided in Spain and Bulgaria and…
French Content Piracy – €1.35bn loss
TV content piracy and illicit downloads caused French rights-holders a €1.35 billion loss in 2016, with 13 million Internet users involved in the practice, stabilising at 27 per cent of…
US Pay-TV: Worst Q2 subs losses
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the eleven largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 665,000 net video…
Ofcom proposes easier pay TV switch process
Ofcom is proposing to make switching pay TV providers an easier process, under new proposals that will affect customers of landline, broadband and pay TV services. The regulator has launched…
German Pay TV revenues forcast to pass €3bn
Pay TV and paid video-on-demand revenues in Europe’s German-speaking countries is forecast to pass the €3 billion threshold this year, according to German commercial broadcasters’ association the VPRT. According to…
70% of Brits have Pay-TV or VoD
Nearly seven in 10 (69 per cent) Britons online now report their household pays a subscription to watch live broadcast or on-demand programming, according to Nielsen’s Global Video-on-Demand Report. The…
Portugal: Pay-TV subs up 5%
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal increased by 5 per cent last year compared to 2014, to 3.52 million, an above-average rise in the last five years (4.6 per…
BT calls on Ofcom to address Sky’s pay TV dominance
Ofcom should amend the scope of its Digital Communications Review to include pay TV, so it can address high prices and a lack of competition in the UK market, according…
UK viewers spend £398 per year on TV packages
More than six in ten (62%) households pay for TV, spending an average of £33 per month however, according to new research from price comparison and switching service uSwitch.com, almost…
ITV Encore launches on Sky
ITV Encore has today launched on Sky. The new channel is the broadcaster’s first major return to Pay-TV for more than a decade, it is exclusive to Sky customers. ITV…