Pay TV appears to have found a way around the rules meant to ensure sport stays on free-to-air TV.
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The news Foxtel received a speedy funding boost as the ABC faces another round of damaging cost cuts will raise eyebrows. And questions about how we spend taxpayers’ money.
Is the Australian media industry willing to come together to fight against global streaming media companies, or will Australian media continue to battle each other?
As streaming services become increasingly dominant, the relevance of the existing local content quota system is declining.
A 40-year partnership between Cricket Australia and the Nine Network ended today, with Seven and Foxtel securing media rights. The deal means more hours of coverage and is a big win for Foxtel.
The cost and confusion of having content tied to so many different streaming platforms could ultimately provoke a return to bundling and a pay TV model.
The problems some people had trying to watch Game of Thrones via the internet shows we still have a long way to go before we can live-stream major events to a mass online audience.
New ABS figures on film, TV and digital gaming show that subscription broadcasters and online content creators are booming. Yet local content quotas only apply to free-to-air broadcasters.
Foxtel’s high-priced oligopolistic control over Australian pay TV has again clashed with the demands of sport fans and the increasingly sophisticated capture and relay technologies available to them.
With Quickflix saved but Presto on the way out, it’s hard to predict who will emerge as the winners as battle for video-on-demand viewers intensifies.
Foxtel has previously been coy about confirming speculation it is planning to launch a service that will compete with Telstra TV and Apple TV. But new chief executive Peter Tonagh has now told reporters…
Netflix took everyone by surprise when it announced it was tripling its global reach for video on demand. So who are the winners and potential losers in the new deal?
As Optus takes the fight for sports viewers to Foxtel and Telstra, it’s unclear if consumers will benefit.
Telstra is promising to “transform the experience” for AFL fans, but Foxtel has similar plans.
Commercial television broadcasters are no longer solely concerned about TV content being viewed on TV sets.
The unbundling of content stands to hurt Pay TV providers the most.
Media players are jostling for a piece of the lucrative sports broadcast market, but a lot can happen in two years.
Telcos are positioning themselves to be at the top rather than the bottom of the content food chain.
Fear of a Foxtel-Ten partnership to acquire sporting rights is likely to worry the ACCC.
Australians have enthusiastically embraced new streaming service Netflix. But with its subscription business model under threat, Foxtel is coming out fighting.
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