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A study from Digital TV Research has found that the Latin American pay-TV sector has been hard hit by recession with the total number of subscribers falling by 4 million in 2019.
It is generally accepted that the US pay-TV industry had a calamitous 2019 but the scale of the losses endured has been revealed by the Leichtman Research Group which calculates that the largest providers in the country shed 4.915 million customers.
Looking to offer more flexibility in its access options, and capture a large subscription-phobic audience, UK incumbent telco BT is to offer a no-contract way to watch BT Sport.
In more bad news for the traditional TV industry, a study from the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US lost about 1.75 million net video subscribers in the third quarter of 2019.
The UK’s leading pay-TV and direct-to-consumer media provider, Sky, has created over 1,000 new jobs throughout the UK and has opened a new customer contact centre in order to meet growing customer demand for its services.
Research firm Dataxis has released market data for the European pay-TV arena showing the growth and strategic importance of over-the-top services yet also highlighting the continued dominance of traditional platforms.
Beeline Kazakhstan (Veon), the country’s largest independent mobile operator whose customers account for more than half of the nation’s population, has tapped the Kaltura Cloud TV Platform to power its newly launched TV service, dubbed TV Internet Doma.
Qatar-based pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports is to provide round the clock football programming to herald the Copa America Brazil 2019 on 14 June (or 15 June KSA time).
