| 02 March 2021
A continued decline in cable TV subscriptions and a fall in the average spend per pay-TV account in the region will lead to pay-TV service revenues in Asia-Pacific dropping from US$61.6bn in 2020 to US$60.8 bn in 2025 due to slowdown in pay-TV household penetration, according to research from GlobalData.
Moreover, says the Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Forecast Pack report, as users swap their traditional pay-TV subscriptions with over-the-top (OTT) video alternatives, pay-TV subscriptions will slow down or decline in some of the most advanced markets in the region such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Vietnam over the forecast period.
Assessing the outlook for the leading platforms, the study suggested that cable TV, which is currently the leading pay-TV platform in the region, by subscriptions, will see its share in the total pay-TV subscriptions decline over the forecast period. While the share of direct-to-home (DTH) services will witness marginal grow
Releasing further data from a study that has already shown that pay-TV subscriber losses in the US and Canada are set to slow from 2021, falling by 16 million i.
| 26 February 2021
On the eve of its first season as an FIA World Championship, Formula E has announced that its seventh edition will be broadcast live in over 150 countries, across six continents.
The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is a single-seater motorsport series that uses only electric cars and season 7 will begin on 26 and 27 February with a double header in the dark of Diriyah in Saudi Arabia and Formula E has agreed new or extended media partnerships with over 40 broadcasters, notably Seven.One Entertainment Group (SAT.1) in Germany, CBS in the US, Discovery (Eurosport) across Europe, Sky Italia in Italy, Cultura and Globo in Brazil and SuperSport in Africa. The new partnerships will result in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship being broadcast in more than 30 languages around the world, with over 60 hours of live, and 40 hours of non-live programming per season.
It is looking at reaching a base of 12 million.
25 Feb, 2021 - 08:18 AM IST | By Gargi Sarkar
KOLKATA: The debate surrounding the future of cable operators in India has become more pressing in the wake of the Covid2019 crisis, which spurred the growth of over-the-top platforms and emergence of deep-pocket content aggregators. Despite the challenges in the present ecosystem, GTPL Hathway is looking at growing its cable TV subscriber base by more than 50 per cent in the next three years to reach a base of 12 million subscriber base, the company revealed in the Q3 FY21 earnings call.
To reach its three-year vision, it is relying on a two-pronged strategy, a combination of “push and pull”. GTPL Hathway cable TV head and chief strategy officer Piyush Pankaj said that MSOs have followed the push strategy till date by giving the schemes, benefits to partner LCOs and asking them to bring the customer back from the DTH, from the ground. On the other side, the pu