Cable TV


European cable saw €1bn revenue growth in 2016

The European cable industry added more than €1 billion (US$1.06 billion) in revenues last year, bringing the total to €23.45 billion, according to figures announced yesterday. Unveiling the figures at the opening of Cable Congress in Brussels, trade association Cable Europe’s president, Manuel Kohnstamm, and executive chairman Matthias Kurth painted an upbeat picture of where the industry […]

Netflix: cable TV biz ‘out of whack’

The cable industry pay model is “out of whack” in the internet era, in which pricing should be proportionate to viewing, Netflix’s content chief Ted Sarandos has claimed. Speaking at the FT Digital Media conference in London yesterday, Netflix’s chief content officer Sarandos said that it was “not economically feasible” in the streaming subscription business […]