Currently, there are around 15 million HD homes
08 Mar, 2021 - 08:34 AM IST | By Gargi Sarkar
KOLKATA: Industry leaders have emphasised over and over again that despite recent developments and change in consumer preferences, pay TV will continue to coexist with over-the-top (OTT) platforms. On the other hand, the need for a sustainable business model is also undeniable amid the rapid flux in the media and entertainment industry. In the coming future, the conversion from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD) can be a key growth driver, the experts said in a panel discussion at the Video and Broadband Summit (VBS) 2021. Moreover, the broadband segment will be another crucial factor, which has seen higher uptake in the last few quarters.
Indiantelevision.com hosted its flagship summit on 5 March
06 Mar, 2021 - 08:25 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
KOLKATA: The debate of over-the-top (OTT) platforms versus pay TV has been centre stage in media and entertainment conversations over the last couple of years. More recently, the subject has died down as the industry reached the conclusion that both linear TV and on-demand TV will co-exist in India for a long time, unlike the markets in the west. But the change in technology and consumer behaviour have definitely thrown challenges at the traditional TV ecosystem. At the Video and Broadband Summit (VBS) 2021, the industry discussed how to stay resilient even amid the flux.
Poorly-performing economies have hit the Latin American pay-TV market hard with the number of pay-TV subscribers falling by 4 million in the last two years says.
Cable and Dish Keep Dying: Providers Lost Over 5 Million Subscribers in 2020
On the satellite side, the losses continued, as DirecTV lost over 3 million subscribers and Dish Network lost 408,000.
Leitchman Research Group has released its report on how many subscribers pay-TV providers lost in the year 2020, and it was a high number- although not that much higher than in 2019.
According to the totals, which were assembled from the public earnings reports released by the companies, the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. lost about 5,120,000 subscribers in 2020, after they lost 4,795,000 in 2019.
The numbers applied to around 95 percent of the overall TV market. At the same time, Leitchman said earlier in the week, the major companies gained about 5 million broadband subscribers.
| 03 March 2021
Leading European media firm RTL Group has announced that its largest business unit, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, has signed a binding agreement with its current joint venture partner, Walt Disney Company-owned BVI Television Investments, to acquire the outstanding 50% shareholding in entertainment company Super RTL.
Super RTL was founded in 1995 as a 50/50 joint venture between RTL Group and The Walt Disney Company. With its umbrella brands, Toggo and Toggolino, it has developed into a digital entertainment company, distributing its content via linear TV channels, the RTL streaming service TV Now, digital radio and a variety of apps and websites. In addition, Super RTL operates a growing merchandising business.