Altice has agreed to buy the US cable operator Cablevision from the Dolan family for an enterprise value of $17.7 billion, with the transaction expected to close in H1 2016 […]
Rok Mobile launch mobile movie VOD service
Rok Mobile and SeaChange are launching an all-you-can-eat service for mobile in the US in the first quarter of 2016.
NASA and Harmonic launch UltraHD channel
NASA is partnering with Harmonic, to launch NASA TV UHD, the first ever non-commercial consumer UltraHD (UHD or 4K) channel in North America. SES’s AMC-18 satellite will distribute the new […]
Sling TV looks to Apple
Sling TV would be very interested in launching on Apple TV now that the latter is embracing apps, according to Roger J. Lynch CEO, Sling TV.
Harmonic and Intelsat to launch 4K/UltraHD demo channel
Harmonic and Intelsat have announced a partnership to launch HVN Intelsat UHD, a linear 4K or UltraHD (UHD) demo channel for the North American TV markets.
83% of all US homes subscribe to pay-TV
83% of all US households subscribe to some form of pay-TV service, according to the Leichtman Research Group.
IHS: Traditional broadcast holds strong in Germany
Germans watched 210 minutes of broadcast TV every day in 2014, an average that did not change from the year before, according IHS Technology.
CBS signs first All Access cable deal
Cablevision Systems Corporation and CBS Corporation have signed a broad-based multi-year content carriage agreement.
US pay TV subscribers down, but ARPU up
The total number of US pay TV subscribers decline by 479,000 in 2Q15, but ARPU is up, says Strategy Analytics.
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Roku dominate streaming device market
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Roku dominate the US streaming media device market with 86% of sales, according to Parks Associates.