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China’s enforcement of its latest content regulations shakes foreign media companiesApril 27, 2016China has started implementing its latest content regulations, and big foreign companies are feeling the impact. DisneyLife, the on demand streaming service by Walt Disney and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has gone offline not long after the suspension of Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks stores in China. Both services had their services operated for less than a year in China, and become unavailable since April 2016.Subscribers Only
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Hong Kong's TVB launches OTT service, myTV SUPERApril 18, 2016Hong Kong’s leading free-to-air broadcaster TVB has launched a subscription-based over-the-top (OTT) service, offering live streaming of 20 channels and an 11,000-hour library of content including classic dramas from TVB and acquired programming from South Korea and Japan.Subscribers Only
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Netflix goes global in one fell swoop, launching in 130 new territoriesJanuary 11, 2016Netflix has executed its global expansion plan by launching in 130 new territories simultaneously. The online-video streaming giant made the announcement at the CES conference and trade show in Las Vegas on 6th January 2015. The US company, which launched its streaming service in the US in 2007, now claims to be available in almost every country worldwide, with exceptions including China, Syria and North Korea. The service has added Arabic, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese to the selection of 17 languages it already supported, bringing the total to 21.Subscribers Only
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Disney partners with Alibaba to launch DisneyLife in ChinaDecember 17, 2015The Walt Disney Company and the Alibaba Group have announced a multi-year licence agreement to launch DisneyLife, a new on-demand streaming service, in China. China will the second market for DisneyLife, after its exclusive launch in the UK in late November.Subscribers Only
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Alibaba gets serious about online video with Youku Tudou acquisitionNovember 10, 2015Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba has announced the acquisition Youku Tudou for $4.2 billion in a cash transaction. The acquisition is in both sides’ interest from both a financial and strategic perspective.Subscribers Only
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BeIn Media enters MENA entertainment content marketNovember 06, 2015Qatar-based media company, BeIn Media Group, announced that it is entering the movies and entertainment content market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The announcement, which came on October 31st, marked the 12th anniversary of the BeIn Media Group. Explaining the company’s decision, CEO Nasser Al Khelaifi stated: “Our consumer research in the MENA region indicated for quite some time that families expect a leading entertainment provider like BeIn to offer a complete range of TV entertainment channels. Furthermore, we identified a sweet-spot in terms of pricing of pay TV in the region that has traditionally been over-priced”.Subscribers Only
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MTG sells central and eastern Europe pay TV channelsOctober 26, 2015MTG has agreed to sell its central and eastern Europe (CEE) pay TV channel operations for $45.5 million. Sabiero Holdings Ltd, controlled by private equity firm Baring Vostok, has acquired the CEE channels while the Russian segment has been purchased by LLC Sinerdzhi. The Russian channel operations include all the factual and cinema channels while the international segment includes all the pan-regional feeds and the TV1000 movie networks. The deal does not include any of MTG’s sports channels -with the exception of Viasat Sport East, the global Trace, or MTG’s free-to-air operations.Subscribers Only
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OSN prepares its defences with HBO channel and EST storeOctober 23, 2015HBO is to launch programming day and date with the US on a dedicated channel launching in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The channel, launching in 2016, is a joint venture with the pan-Arabic pay TV operator OSN. The Dubai-based operator will enrich the content offer of its On Demand service with more than 2,000 hours of HBO programming, including a thousand hours of complete box sets of HBO TV series.Subscribers Only
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CTC Media agrees deal with UTH as Russian sell-offs continueSeptember 25, 2015CTC Media has accepted an offer from UTH Russia to purchase 75% of its business in Russia and Kazakhstan for $200 million. CTC Media was forced to sell the assets in order to comply with an amendment to the Russian ‘On Mass Media’ law, which will impose a 20% non-Russian ownership cap of Russian television companies beginning on 1 January 2016. Currently over 70% of the company is foreign-owned. Modern Times Group (MTG) owns the largest share of the media company (37.9%). CTC Media is the largest company in Russia to be affected by the new ownership cap.Subscribers Only
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Alibaba’s Tmall Box Office is now available in ChinaSeptember 15, 2015Tmall Box Office (TBO), an online video service by Chinese ecommerce group Alibaba, has become available in a trial mode via Alibaba’s smart TVs and set-top-boxes after most recent software update. TBO is offering access to local and foreign content; it claims to have more than a thousand movies with hundreds of them being exclusive.Subscribers Only
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UTH Russia offers to buy 75% of CTC MediaJuly 07, 2015CTC Media has received an offer from UTH Russia to purchase 75% of its business in Russia and Kazakhstan for $200 million – a low price which values the company at 94% less than at the time of the last major share transaction two years ago. This is the first and the only offer which was received by CTC since the media company announced it would sell the business last March.Subscribers Only
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Alibaba joins the Chinese online video battle by offering a new SVoD service in summer 2015June 23, 2015Chinese internet giant, Alibaba will launch an online video service, Tmall Box Office (TBO), in late summer 2015. The company hopes to develop the Chinese equivalent of HBO and Netflix with 90 per cent of content paid for, either by a subscription or on a PPV basis.Subscribers Only
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Gazprom Media to launch free sports channel on Russian terrestrial TVJune 05, 2015Gazprom Media is launching a free-to-air sports channel which will be available on terrestrial TV throughout the Russian Federation. The channel, Sport, will replace public broadcaster VGTRK’s Russia 2 channel on the analogue airways and on the first DTT multiplex in autumn 2015.Subscribers Only
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Quickflix repositions toward the burgeoning Chinese marketJune 03, 2015Australian online video subscription company, Quickflix has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acquire a China-based content production company subject to satisfactory completion of further due diligence. Launched in 2003 as a DVD-by-post service, Quickflix launched a Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) streaming service in Australia during October 2011 followed by the expansion of its streaming service to New Zealand in May 2012. As such, the foray into China marks a new direction for the company.Subscribers Only
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PCCW challenges TVB in Hong Kong broadcasting marketMay 19, 2015Hong Kong’s market-leading terrestrial television broadcaster, TVB has been granted renewal of its domestic free-to-air (FTA) broadcasting service licence for 12 years until 2027. The award is subject to a mid-term review in 2021. TVB’s licence was last renewed in 2002, with a validity of 12 years from 2003 to 2015.Subscribers Only
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China’s cable TV operators to focus on multiscreen TVMay 05, 2015The 23rd China Content Broadcasting Network (CCBN) took place in Beijing from March 24 to 28. China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) used the show communicate new strategic directions for the development of China’s TV broadcasting. The government is encouraging cable TV operators to upgrade their networks to support multiscreen TV services to connected devices, now that TV digitization is almost complete. There were 234 million of cable TV users and 184 million digital subscribers at the end of 2014.Subscribers Only
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CNN to return to Russia following new licence awardMarch 25, 2015On 23 March Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media watchdog, granted CNN International a ‘universal’ broadcasting licence that will allow Turner Information Programs and Lifestyle, the Russian subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System Europe, to broadcast its news channel across all platforms on the entire territory of the Russian Federation for the next ten years.Subscribers Only
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Netflix jostles with local players in the crowded Australian VoD spaceMarch 04, 2015Netflix has announced that its service will be launched in Australia and New Zealand on 24 March 2015. Consumers can look forward to original content, local as well as foreign series and films available on smart televisions, set-top boxes, games consoles, tablets and smartphones.
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Intel becomes #1 gateway chip supplier with Lantiq acquisitionFebruary 20, 2015Intel is acquiring Lantiq, provider of DSL broadband access and home networking technology. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, and the process is expected to take 90 days to fully close, pending any regulatory approvals and transaction stipulations.Subscribers Only
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China: threat to foreign programming as online services are dealt new regulationJanuary 27, 2015Scrutiny of China’s online streaming portals has increased, resulting in new censorship measures for major US TV series. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), has published a notice demanding that online video providers submit complete seasons of foreign shows with Chinese subtitles to the censorship board before they go on air. Affected are such providers as Tencent, Alibaba, Youku Tudou, Baidu's iQiyi and Sohu.Subscribers Only
