Like their cable predecessors, streaming companies have lured customers in with low rates and promises of a better viewing experience. Now they’re cashing in.
Victory is such sweet music for the England cricket team.
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The proposed anti-siphoning changes certainly shift the economic balance from free-to-air to pay-TV, as well as from government intervention in the sport TV market to more open market play.
Logos of betting companies and the odds on sporting outcomes are now impossible to avoid, at the ground or on TV.
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The Seven Network’s decision to offer an additional subscription service for its coverage of the Rio Olympics makes it the first free-to-air broadcaster in Australia to charge for broadcasting sport.
Pay TV is growing globally, and programming data is now up for grabs.
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With free-to-air, pay TV, catch-up services and video-on-demand, television is changing in Australia, and the viewership metrics are struggling to keep up.
The arrival of Netflix is set to shake up television in Australia.
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With the arrival of Netflix and competition from two other new video-on-demand services, television will never be the same in Australia.
Foxtel will compete directly with half owner Telstra when it begins offering telephone and broadband internet services in the next twelve months.
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Monday’s announcement by Foxtel that it will launch broadband internet and fixed line telephony services bundled with its pay tv services comes as no surprise. The deal, known as a Triple Play, will see…
Popularity of digital video streaming services such as Netflix suggest that the future of TV may well be online.
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In arguably the TV event of 2013 so far, House of Cards – a $100 million, 13-episode TV series starring Kevin Spacey, directed by David Fincher, and commissioned by Netflix, premiered exclusively online…