As the new NFL, NBA, and NHL seasons get underway, fuboTV, the sports-first live streaming TV service in the US, passed the 100,000 subscriber milestone in September. Originally launching in January 2015 as a streaming soccer destination, fuboTV has – in less than a year – built a new OTT live service that offers fans […]
Nokia and WOW!, a US broadband provider, have announced what they claim is the industry’s first commercial virtualised Distributed Access Architecture (vDAA) deployment. Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution will increase the capacity of WOW!’s existing HFC (Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial) network, helping the broadband provider meet exploding bandwidth demands of subscribers, adapt to the evolving ways they […]
ThinkAnalytics, developer of a multi-platform TV search and recommendations engine, has revealed that Mexican operator Megacable is now personalising Xview pay-TV customers’ linear and VoD experiences on set-top boxes, online and on mobile apps with recommendations based on their viewing preferences. In addition, Megacable is reaping the benefits of ThinkBigData to gain valuable, granular insight […]
Nevion, a provider of virtualised media production solutions, has announced that German broadcaster RTL II has selected Nevion and partner LOGIC media solutions to deliver a video-over-IP solution for its OTT-playout. Following the acquisition of three channels-in-a-box servers for OTT programs, RTL II decided that all the routing in the new environment should be exclusively IP-based, using […]
Vibrant TV has selected Worldlink Ventures to handle the network’s advertising sales, it was announced by Dan Zifkin, Chief Executive Officer of Vibrant TV. Among the country’s largest multi-platform advertising sales firms, Worldlink will exclusively represent all advertising sales for Vibrant TV, which ranks as one of the fastest-growing ad-supported broadcast/digital channels in the US. […]
Best-selling German tabloid newspaper BILD has turned to video transport technologist LiveU to stream live video content across multiple platforms. Already experienced with video, BILD wanted to expand into live video, with more advanced technology than it had been using before. “We at BILD saw very early that web-hosted video is important for both delivering […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out more detail about what it intends to examine in its investigation into the proposed takeover of Sky by 21st Century Fox. On September 20th, Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport referred Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to the CMA […]
James Harding, Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC, will stand down at the beginning of the new year to set up his own news media venture. Harding commented: “I am proud to have worked for BBC News as we renewed our reputation for responsible, powerful journalism: agenda-setting coverage of politics, business and […]
The TV market in Western Europe was worth €99.4 billion at the end of 2016, accounting for an annual growth rate of 1.8 per cent. This compares to a 17.5 per cent growth over the period 2006-2016, at an average annual rate (CAGR) of over 1 per cent. These are the key conclusions of the […]
More than 33,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 were caught watching live TV or BBC programmes on iPlayer without a TV Licence in the past year, according to new figures released today by TV Licensing – the companies contracted by the BBC to administer the collection of the television licence fee […]