CoralTree, a provider of convergent business support systems (BSS), has announced that UPC Poland, the largest cable television operator in Poland with 2.7 million service subscribers, selected CoralTree’s ‘Renaissance‘ CRM to increase operational efficiencies across its customer service and sales functions. Working in partnership with CoralTree, UPC Poland has streamlined sales order processing and management […]
Anevia, a global player in software infrastructure for live television and VoD services, announces CableLabs certification for ViaMotion Plus, its flagship packaging, streaming and recording solution. ViaMotion is the first on-the-fly, multi-encoder packager to be certified for CableLabs’ two key content encoding specifications, Adaptive Transport Stream (ATS) and Encoder Boundary Point (EBP). As such, it […]
The global pay-TV services market, including cable TV, satellite TV, telco TV and OTT video, totalled $237 billion in 2014, up 7 per cent from the previous year, according to the 2015 IHS Infonetics Pay-TV Services and Subscribers report.“In a growing number of pay-TV markets, service providers are expanding market presence by offering their own OTT video services, primarily as […]
YouTube is adding TrueView for Shopping, meaning that viewers can click and buy products listed directly within pre-roll videos. The ads are powered by an integration with Google Merchant Center, delivered in ‘cards’ alongside retailers’ video ads on mobile and desktop. Google is stressing that this does not allow for purchasing directly within YouTube, clicks […]
More concentration is set to take place in the Spanish cable market. The Basque Country-based company Euskaltel is seeking to merge with other big regional cable companies in the North of Spain, R in Galicia and Telecable in Asturias. The three companies lead the market in their regions with combined revenues of €700 million and […]
UK retailer John Lewis is set to sell Ultra-HD TVs from £699 (€978) after expanding its partnership with LG. The LG-made JL9100 televisions will be released under the retailer’s branding and come in 40, 49 and 55-inch sizes. The TVs will come with the WebOS operating system on board, granting access to connected services such […]
An estimated 40 per cent of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina could be left in the dark after the digital switchover on June 17th. The country has not yet completed the first phase of the project when the public broadcasters for each entity were meant to synchronize their networks and their equipment. An estimated […]
Sky Deutschland is set to broadcast the DFB Cup Final football match in Ultra-HD in a number of bars across Germany. The match, between Borussia Dortmund und VFL Wolfsburg on May 30th, will see Sky Deutschland equip the chosen venues with Samsung 65-inch and 78-inch TVs with built-in Ultra-HD tuners. For the production, 11 Ultra-HD […]
Figures reveal the BBC has a weekly global audience of 308 million people. This represents the combined measured reach of international BBC content – both news and entertainment – for the year 2014/15 and is the first time this figure has ever been measured in this way. In 2013 Tony Hall, Director General of the […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has released statistical and financial information on Canadian terrestrial and satellite broadcast distribution companies for the year that ended August 31st 2014. Overall, these companies’ revenues increased 1.5 per cent from $8.8 billion in 2013 to $8.9 billion in 2014, despite the number of subscribers remaining relatively flat over […]