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Sports Rights: Operators Evolve the Pay TV Proposition as Costs Go UpAugust 21, 2015Premium sports rights remain of crucial importance to many pay TV operators’ businesses, for building and retaining customers of multiple products, not just TV. Rising costs are putting increasing pressure on service providers to maximise the value of rights, though. Innovating sports broadcasting for traditional pay TV customers is essential, but operators must also seek growth by unbundling access to their sports content, via more-flexible, standalone over-the-top (OTT) video services.Subscribers Only
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Production giants Banijay and Zodiak to merge in latest mega-indie dealJuly 29, 2015International content producers Banijay and Zodiak have agreed to merge, a move that will create a new producer group generating revenues of around $1 billion, according to the companies. The new entity will span most major European markets and will also have interests in the US and a handful of other key territories, including Australia, India and Russia.Subscribers Only
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Mega and BeIn Sports launch on Spanish DTTJuly 03, 2015Two new commercial digital terrestrial (DTT) TV channels launched in Spain on 1 July. Mega, operated by Grupo Atresmedia, and BeIn Sports, owned by the Qatari BeIn Media Group, were added to the 22 free national channels offered on the DTT platform. Both channels are in standard definition (SD), but transmissions in high definition (HD) in the future have not been ruled out once the additional multiplex capacity required for carrying HD channels is available.Subscribers Only
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Spanish government decrees collective sale of La Liga TV rightsMay 01, 2015Spain's Council of Ministers this morning published a Royal Decree which will require football clubs in the top two divisions of la Liga to sell their TV rights collectively rather than, as they do at present, negotiating deals individually. The new law will take effect from the 2016/17 season, although it may be brought forward to 2015/16 if clubs which have already signed agreements are able to execute escape clauses.Subscribers Only
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Regulator approves Telefónica’s takeover of Canal Plus - with conditionsApril 24, 2015Spain’s competition regulator CNMC has approved Telefónica’s takeover of pay TV operator Canal Plus subject to conditions including a requirement to offer at least half of its premium channels to third party platforms. The green light comes nearly one year after the telecommunications giant announced the acquisition of Prisa’s 56% stake in Distribudora de Television (DTS), the parent company of Canal Plus Espana. The deal was valued at €725 million ($785 million).Subscribers Only
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Football rights go through the roof, againFebruary 20, 2015The latest auction for rights to the Premier League, which saw a 70% increase in the value of live rights from 2016/17, underlines the continuing importance of premium sports in driving pay TV. If there were any doubts about whether Sky could maintain its leadership of the UK pay TV market without exclusive rights to the league, they were removed by Sky’s willingness to hike its contribution to the new deal by 85% to prevent rival BT from increasing its share. The question now is how Sky will fund the new deal, and how BT’s pay TV strategy will be affected. The report also compares the UK to five other European markets to identify where live league football sits among the offerings of the leading pay TV platforms.Subscribers Only
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Fox and Apollo agree Endemol Shine joint ventureOctober 14, 2014US major 21st Century Fox and private equity firm Apollo Management have reached agreement to combine their production companies to create a `leading global multi-platform content provider`. Fox subsidiary Shine Group and Apollo-owned Endemol and Core Media will continue to operate as separate companies on completion of the deal, which is expected by the end of the calendar year. No financial terms were disclosed and the deal is subject to regulatory clearances.Subscribers Only
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Telefonica bids to become Spain's biggest pay TV operatorMay 09, 2014Spanish media company Prisa has agreed to sell its majority stake in stake in pay TV unit DTS (Distribuidora de Television Digital SA), operating under the brand Canal Plus, to Telefonica. Telefonica will pay €725 million ($1.0 billion) for the 56% stake in the company adding to its existing 22% holding for a total stake of 78%. The other 22% will remain in hands of Italian media company Mediaset. The business retains the name Canal Plus for historical reasons but is no longer owned by Vivendi's Canal Plus Group.
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Mediaset confirms it wants to merge Italian and Spanish pay TV interestsMarch 25, 2014Mediaset has confirmed that it is investigating the possibility of combining its Italian pay TV operation Mediaset Premium with Spanish operator Canal Plus.
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Spanish public broadcaster forced off the airDecember 02, 2013Ràdio Televisió Valenciana (RTVV), public broadcaster in the Spanish region of Valencia, was forced to shut down on Friday (29 November) by the regional government.The move by the government...
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Endemol backs digital with cash injectionNovember 13, 2013International TV producer and distributor Endemol is to spend €30 million on expanding online operations and bringing more high-end programming to greater numbers of viewers. Digital content...
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Mediaset hit by declines in Italy and SpainMarch 27, 2013Mediaset reported a 500m euro decline (12 per cent) in annual revenues last year as its advertising-funded broadcasting divisions in Italy and Spain were battered by the difficult macroeconomic climate.In its...
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International business boosts Discovery growthFebruary 15, 2013US cable programmer Discovery Communications International reported revenues of $4.5bn in 2012, up eight per cent on the year before, driven by double-digit increases in distribution revenues for its domestic...
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Europe's leading broadcasters hit by deteriorating ad marketNovember 14, 2012Europe's leading free-to-air broadcasters have painted a gloomy picture for the TV advertising market in reporting the first nine months of the year. While pan-European broadcaster RTL Group, the UK's ITV and...
