{"id":5773,"date":"2016-01-04T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/stingray-acquires-iconcerts\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:53:29","slug":"stingray-acquires-iconcerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/stingray-acquires-iconcerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stingray Acquires IConcerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/61\/Logo_iConcerts.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Stingray Digital Group Inc., a leading  business-to-business multiplatform music provider, announced that it has  reached an agreement to acquire Swiss-based iConcerts, a TV channel  dedicated solely to live music currently distributed to more than 100  Pay-TV and OTT operators in 85 countries and available to an estimated  250 million households across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East.  <!--more-->  Upon completion of the transaction, Stingray will be the world&#8217;s  largest broadcaster of live music concerts on television, with access to  the largest library of digital live music worldwide. The transaction is  expected to add $5 million in annual revenues for Stingray.<\/p>\n<p> With this transaction, Stingray firmly establishes a stronghold in the  Asian market including distribution deals with CCTV in China, KT in  Korea and StarHub in Singapore. IConcerts also has an important presence  in Europe with providers Swisscom and Orange, and in Russia with  Tricolor.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Following the acquisitions completed over the last two quarters, the  agreement with iConcerts further demonstrates our intent to provide our  clients with the greatest variety of digital music products and services  on the market,&#8221; said Eric Boyko, President, Co-founder and CEO of  Stingray. &#8220;iConcerts&#8217; live music concert library perfectly complements  Stingray&#8217;s current offering (Stingray Concerts, Stingray Brava, and  Stingray Djazz), allowing us to become the number one destination for  exciting live performances on television.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: <\/span><br \/><span class=\"normal\">Stingray Digital Group Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stingray Digital Group Inc., a leading business-to-business multiplatform music provider, announced that it has reached&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}