"pay TV" articles

International research firm Parks Associates will host two CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summits in 2010. The first CONNECTIONS™ Europe of 2010 will be April 27 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This executive summit will focus on connected consumer electronics and digital media, including analysis of new monetization models and the impact of technologies such as 3D TV and smartphones. The second CONNECTIONS™ Europe of 2010 will take place in November in Paris, France. Both events will...

Premium pay-TV gaming features do not currently maximize the market’s revenue potential, according to a new report from international research firm Parks Associates . Many pay-TV providers, including Comcast, Cablevision, DISH Network, and DirecTV, offer premium packages that include simple, single-player games. Gaming ARPU: Games & the Service Provider finds roughly 5% of broadband households in North America and Western Europe are willing to pay about $5 per month for a...

Consumers eager to watch their favorite television programs, sports and news while on-the-go can satisfy their mobile TV craving as the handheld FLO TV Personal Television hits shelves across the nation today. The much-anticipated device from FLO TV , a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated , delivers live and time-shifted content via the award-winning FLO TV mobile TV service and will be available at Amazon.com , Best Buy , and RadioShack . As part of the launch...

The number of U.S. broadband households watching premium online content, including movies and TV shows via the Internet, doubled in the last year, according to Broadband, Communications, and Entertainment Bundles, a new study from Parks Associates . Currently over 25 million U.S. broadband households regularly watch full-length TV shows online, while over 20 million watch movies online. The international research firm reports that the growing popularity of online portals such as...

The pay-TV industry will start to see success in advanced TV advertising beginning mid-2010, with U.S. revenues topping $130 million by year-end, according to the new Parks Associates report Addressable, Interactive TV Advertising in the U.S. Consumer demand for time-shifted TV viewing on VOD and DVR service platforms, combined with the broad deployment of Canoe Ventures’ national addressable TV advertising platform, will drive the growth in advanced TV advertising. By 2014, U.S....

French pay TV provider Canal Plus is offering a half-price weekend-only service starting this fall, says Variety . The Friday-to-Sunday night service will cost subscribers €15, about half of a normal monthly subscription.

Cable network giant, Time Warner has a plan to distribute pay TV programming via web sites like Hulu, Yahoo TV, and YouTube. Whether through a mobile device or a computer, viewers will just have to prove they already subscribe to pay TV (cable, satellite or telco's TV offerings). The "TV Everywhere" plan enables a cable subscriber (or person from that household) to have online access to the programming included in their current cable TV bundle. Full details are still being...

The Congress finally agreed to a delay in the mandatory switch over until June after much debate and heartache to the likes of Verizon, AT&T and Qualcomm. However, in yet another turn in events, more expected than unexpected, the broadcast stations have decided to switch over to pure digital transmission much sooner than the mandated date in June. 40% of the local broadcast stations i.e. 2 in out every 5 have expressed their intention to switch as soon as possible. The major factor...