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ATEME Powers the First Live 4K-UHD Broadcast in France

by Isaac Oburu

ATEME announced today that FRANSAT, the satellite TV bouquet of Eutelsat in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel. …

Tags:ATEME| Cable| Satellite

Unitymedia Will End Analogue in 2017

by Tom Allen

Unitymedia, the German cable operator, has announced that it will end analogue distribution to its network on the 30th June 2017. By then, the firm aims to have moved 95% of its customers to …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Cable| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Fast Growth in PayTV is ‘Mostly Over’ for Eastern Europe

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will rise 9.9% between 2015 and 2021, to almost $6 billion – despite subscribers climbing by less than 1 million. The report comes from Digital TV Research, which adds …

Cable Subscribers – Where Are You?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article, Tom Allen of Display Daily reported on data from the Leichtman Research Group that the cable subscriber base in the US has dropped by about 385,000 subscribers in 2015 (US …

IPTV Costs SES Cable and Terrestrial

by Tom Allen

SES has announced that it is now serving 317 million homes worldwide, including 156 million in Europe. 5 million new homes were added in the past year, and there has been 23% growth since …

US IPTV Suffers First Decline

by Tom Allen

Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the top 13 US pay-TV providers (with around a 95% combined market share) lost around 385,000 net subscribers in 2015, compared to 150,000 in 2014 and 100,000 …

Cablevision Enjoys 2015 Growth

by Isaac Oburu

Cablevision – the New York-based telco – has said that its 2015 video customer results were significantly improved compared to 2014, with 45,000 fewer losses.

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Ateme Powers French 4k Channel

by Tom Allen

MCS TV (Altice Group), of France, has chosen to use Ateme’s Titan software compression solution for its new UltraHD channel. The channel will be launched on cable and optical fibre networks in France, before …

SK Telecom to Buy CJ Hellovision

by Milos Pavlovic

SK Telecom of Korea is to buy a 30% stake in CJ Hellovision from CJ’s parent company and 25.3% through other stock purchases to take control of the firm which is said to be …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Japanese Cable Cos Plan for UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

The Nikkei Asian Review reports that 39 companies in the cable business in Japan are teaming up to deliver UltraHD content. The hope is to eventually get to 370 companies and 110 have so …

Altice-Cablevision Create USA’s Fourth-Largest Operator

by Bob Raikes

Altice has acquired Cablevision Systems Corporation, for $17.7 billion, a deal that creates the fourth-largest cable operator in the USA. Cablevision serves the US metropolitan area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), with a …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Kids and Teens in the US Prefer Streaming TV over Cable Channels Says PWC

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the latest research report of the consumer intelligence series, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) took a look at the media consumption habits of kids and teens. The study looked at several aspects of their content …