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BBC to switch youth-skewing BBC3 into online-only channel
The BBC confirmed today that its is planning to convert BBC3, one of its five national TV channels, into an online-only service in a move aimed at saving over £50 million a year in costs.
View Details Subscribers OnlyUS groups in the running for UK's Channel 5
Cable network groups Viacom, Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks and investment company Saban Capital all submitted bids for UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 last week, according to press reports.
View Details Subscribers OnlyITV targets increased push into US production
ITV is planning to expand its US scripted production business as its ITV Studios division continues to outperform its core broadcasting and online business.
View Details Subscribers OnlyComcast and Netflix sign deal for transit, not carriage
Comcast and Netflix have signed a deal for ‘interconnection’. No terms of the multi-year deal have been disclosed except the companies have made it clear that the agreement has been developed over ‘many months’ and that under the deal Netflix traffic receives no preferential treatment at a network level.
View Details Subscribers OnlyUS satellite sees lowest ever growth in 2013
Growth in US satellite video subscribers continues to slow down. The top two satellite operators, DIRECTV and DISH, posted a combined gain of 101,000 subscribers in Q4 2013. Total growth for satellite subscribers for the year was 170,000 subscribers, down 41% from the growth of 288,000 in 2012.
View Details Subscribers OnlyAereo barred from operating in six states in US Midwest
The future is not today, at least for potential subscribers in six Mid-Western states of Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The 19 February verdict in favour of broadcasters had its roots in a case which launched last October...
View Details Subscribers OnlyM6 to exit French pay TV by making Paris Premiere free-to-air
M6 has applied to French regulator the CSA for permission to convert its pay TV channel Paris Premiere to free-to-air from the start of 2015.
View Details Subscribers OnlyVirgin Media acquisition drives 2013 revenue and subscriber growth for Liberty Global
Liberty Global’s acquisition of Virgin Media earlier in the year particularly boosted growth in its revenue and subscriber base over 2013. The operator had mixed performance in its individual markets. Belgium and Germany positively drove its growth in Western European markets, however the US cable company faced competitive challenges in both its Dutch and British markets during 2013.
View Details Subscribers OnlyComcast to acquire Time Warner Cable
Comcast has announced plans to acquire the second largest cable operator in the US, Time Warner Cable (TWC), in an all stock transaction valued at $45.2 billion, and will make it the largest pay TV operator in the nation...
View Details Subscribers OnlyDecline in Nordic satellite subscribers shows signs of easing in Q4 2013
Fourth quarter and full year results for Nordic satellite operators Canal Digital and Viasat show that the ongoing decline in Nordic satellite subscribers is continuing, albeit at a gradually reducing pace. Telenor’s Canal Digital has continued easing its subscriber loss, while Modern Times Group's Viasat showed some evidence of slowed churn in the second half of 2013.
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