IHS Markit has released findings from its Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time 2016 report, which analyses TV consumption trends across the ‘big five’ European markets: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, and suggests that linear television viewing declined across those markets in 2016, with personal video recorder (PVR) time-shifted viewing starting to plateau as PVRs […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, operator of La 1 and La 2 among other channels, will increase its budget by around €30 million to a total of €1 billion next year. In 2017 the pubcaster is managing a budget of €972.8 million, but the planned increase of telco and TV taxes is driving the rise of […]
China’s latest national campaign to protect intellectual property rights will focus on online movies, TV shows and news articles, according to senior management at the National Copyright Administration. “To protect the copyright of movies, TV series and news stories online, the battle will severely strike websites and other platforms, such as cloud storage and social […]
The UK’s creative industries have cemented their position as a powerhouse for growth, with employment in the sector growing at four times the rate of the UK workforce as whole, according to latest official statistics from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which suggest that those industries now employ almost two million […]
South Korea’s electronics giant LG Display confirmed July 26th that it will invest 15 trillion Won (about $13.5 bn) to boost production of OLED screens, for TV sets and cellular devices. LG said its board had approved its plan to invest 7.8 trillion won in new OLED production facilities located in Paju in Gyeonggi Province. […]
Following a statement of intent in February, UK communications infrastructure company Arqiva and Samsung Electronics have confirmed that the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology in the UK and Europe is now live in central London. Powered by Samsung’s 5G network solution and customer premises equipment (CPE), and using Arqiva’s 28GHz […]
Netflix has ordered a new adult-animation series from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. The show, entitled Disenchantment, will whisk viewers away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of a hard-drinking young princess named Bean. It will premiere on Netflix in 2018 with ten episodes, with a further […]
A new studio complex has been built in Park Royal, London to house Alaraby, a TV station beaming programming to the Arab world, and financed by Qatar. Alaraby TV started broadcasting in 2015 from a shared studio, but its new complex will eventually be home initially 200 journalists and technicians – and as many as […]
A report from Paris-based satellite consultancy Euroconsult says that the In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) sector of the industry is going to enjoy “fabulous growth” although the study admits that predicting revenue patterns is still a challenge. The study is echoed by London-based Inmarsat, which is boosting its coverage of the globe in order to […]
Barclays Corporate Banking’s UK Video Gamers Trends Survey finds that female gamers are the hidden gem in the UK video gaming crown. British women look set to spend £1.1 billion on video games and their accessories over the next 12 months – a third of the total £3.5 billion projected spend for British adults over […]