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| 12 April 2021 With a projected 7% CAGR over the years from 2020-25 and a satellite industry described as ‘robust’, the Indian pay-TV market is set to show reasonable returns despite an unhelpful regulatory regime says a study from Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report, entitled India Pay-TV Distribution 2021, predicts that the market will be spurred by more than 96% of India’s pay-TV homes being digitalised by 2025 with total pay-TV subscribers expanding from 127 million in...

| 15 March 2021 A study from Digital TV Research is forecasting that unlike in other key markets such as Europe and North America, Asia Pacific’s pay-TV arena will display steady growth over the next five years, increasing from 609 million at the end of 2020 to 630 million subscribers by 2026. The Asia Pacific OTT TV and Video Forecasts study observed that six countries will lose pay-TV subscribers between 2020 and 2026. Most will be developed countries, but China is also include...

| 02 March 2021 A continued decline in cable TV subscriptions and a fall in the average spend per pay-TV account in the region will lead to pay-TV service revenues in Asia-Pacific dropping from US$61.6bn in 2020 to US$60.8 bn in 2025 due to slowdown in pay-TV household penetration, according to research from GlobalData. Moreover, says the Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Forecast Pack report, as users swap their traditional pay-TV subscriptions with over-the-top (OTT) video alternatives, pay-TV...

| 23 February 2021 In what may be good news for a market that has been undergoing a considerable downward spiral over the last few years, a Digital TV Research study is predicting that pay-TV subscriber losses in the US and Canada are set to slow with declines to be lower from 2021, falling by 16 million in total between 2020 and 2026. The North America Pay TV Forecasts report found that the number of pay-TV subscribers in the US and Canada plummeted by 27 million between 2010 and ...

| 05 February 2021 Worldwide one-stop metadata solutions provider for the content requirements of TV platforms, Global Listings, has won the exclusive Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) contract to deliver metadata, images and translations for over 100 channels of the Cytavision subscription TV service in Cyprus. Cyta is the leading provider of integrated electronic communications services in Cyprus, offering IPTV and OTT services branded as Cytavision. With a coverage of more than 9...

| 13 January 2021 Leading South Korea telco SK Broadband has selected NAGRA’s NexGuard forensic watermarking technology to protect its premium content on a range of IPTV set-top boxes. The NexGuard Pay-TV solution is designed to protect premium content investments and, in the event of a breach, will enable the operator to trace any illicit recording or sharing of content from its BTV service and identify the set-top box from which it originated. NexGuard Pay-TV is designed to pro...

| 11 January 2021 Aiming to rebuild the entire UX personalisation of its Now TV IPTV and OTT TV service, Hong Kong multimedia and entertainment company PCCW Media has deployed ContentWise’s digital experience automation and personalisation software. Now TV is the largest pay-TV service in Hong Kong, featuring over 150 channels and dozens of VOD categories, with a wide diversity of TV, movies, kids and live sports content in Cantonese and English. AI-powered customer experience co...