Sky has revealed plans to launch a new service allowing viewers to watch some of its most popular content over the Internet, the new service will be an additional choice for people who don’t currently subscribe to a pay-TV service and will arrive at about the same time as the much-delayed YouView service. Launching in the first half of 2012, [...]
BSkyB has a cheeky habit of under-promising and over-delivering on its results. It isn’t such a bad habit, but often catches out the analysts. Sky’s half-year numbers, revealed on January 31st, declared 6 per cent revenue growth to £3.4 billion, EBITA growth up 16 per cent and Earnings per Share up 20 per cent. Hard subscriber numbers were a little [...]
Sky announced a slowdown in the number of subscribers joining its television services in the three months to December 31st with 40,000 sign-ups, down from 140,000 during the same period the previous year. But the existing base bought more broadband and telephone packages and underlying profits grew 15 per cent to a record £601 million (€718m) in the period. Revenues [...]
And so it comes to pass: Sky on the Internet and available to all UK broadband subscribers. Dishes have been in Sky’s DNA from day one and they will be around for a long time, but making Sky open to all is a major evolutionary moment for Sky, for pay-TV and for broadcasting as a whole. Of course, we all [...]
Deutsche Telekom and NetCologne have challenged the German antitrust authority’s approval of Liberty Global’s acquisition of Kabel Baden-Wuerttemberg, Boersen-Zeitung has reported. Concessions accepted by the watchdog don’t guarantee market competition for contracts with housing associations, which often reach long-term agreements with cable operators, the German newspaper reports Deutsche Telekom as saying.
Sky Go be available to download from Android Market across a selection of handsets by the end of February. Sky TV customers will be able to access all five Sky Sports channels, ESPN, Sky News and 11 Sky Movies channels via the Sky Go app in line with their subscription on a selection of Android smartphones for the first time, [...]
Subscription sports channel ESPN will broadcast the UK’s first ever live, free-to-air Premier League football match this weekend. The clash between Manchester City and Fulham will air at 5:30pm on Saturday 4th February as part of a promotion that will see the channel available for free throughout the weekend. ESPN is broadcasting free from 6am on Friday 3rd February to [...]
Sky Sports has been awarded four more years of live international and county cricket under a new deal with the ECB. The England & Wales Cricket Board announced a new agreement with Sky for coverage across TV, mobile and online. With the existing deal concluding at the end of 2013, the new deal begins in 2014 and continues until the [...]
There’s a bidding war breaking out to control Turkey’s Calik Holdings, the nation’s second-largest media group with extensive TV and print investments. Calik owns Sabah-ATV, which it bought in 2007 for $1.1 billion. Reports are that Calik is seeking $1.25 billion for its media assets. Already Time Warner’s name is in the frame, as well as News Corp, both of [...]
A broad survey of mobile phone users conducted for Mobixell Networks by On Device Research, indicates that 74 per cent hold operators most responsible for their video stalling, buffering or taking too long to start when streaming over their mobile network. In light of the sharp increase in mobile video consumption forecast for the coming years, this revelation should raise [...]
