Advanced Television

BBC Three creating short-form videos for Royal Wedding

In the week leading up to the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, BBC Three and US-based network Vox will be co-producing three short-form videos. For this new collaborative partnership, BBC Three and Vox will release videos that explore the questions you’ve always wanted to know about the Royal Wedding but have […]

May 9, 2018

Licensees fined for Sky Sports infringements    

Following successful legal action taken by Sky, James Barnes Bar and Jagtar Singh Nijar of O’Kane’s in Glasgow, Linelly Limited and Linda Davidson of Fox’s bar in Edinburgh and Claire Gorman of Cheers Bar in Cambuslang have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€11,420) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming […]

May 9, 2018By Colin Mann

24i Media acquires Mautilus

24i Media, the Internet TV app technology provider, has announced the acquisition of Mautilus, the Czech TV app agency specialising in HbbTV and applications for multiple devices. The acquisition strengthens 24i’s technology framework with new products and features, and increases its production capacity with Mautilus’ highly-skilled engineers. The acquisition of Mautilus is the next step […]

May 9, 2018

Film finder tool from Which? and Industry Trust

UK consumer champion Which? and pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness have collaborated to launch the new Film Finder tool, which connects audiences to the broadest range of films and TV shows available in the UK, whilst also driving engagement with legal services. The Film Finder, integrated within the Which? website, is […]

May 9, 2018By Colin Mann

HiSilicon, Vewd strike global partnership

Vewd, a global market player in enabling OTT, and HiSilicon Technologies, a global chip manufacturers, have announced a joint Global Strategic partnership and will develop turnkey OTT software solutions directly on HiSilicon’s chipsets. This collaboration aims to give device manufacturers a seamless path to offering the industry’s most-trusted streaming platform, with no extra integration work […]

May 9, 2018Nik Roseveare @ TV Connect

Panasonic settles Avionics bribery allegations

Panasonic Avionics has agreed to pay some $280 million in an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in order to settle criminal and civil allegations over falsified bribery payments to Chinese and other Asian agents. The DoJ and Panasonic had agreed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement over the bribery allegations. Panasonic Avionics is a […]

May 9, 2018By Chris Forrester

Dutch space approval for 50 IoT satellites

Magnitude Space, recently renamed as Hiber Global, has received approval from the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands to launch a fleet of up to 50 small nano-satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) applications. Hiber has its R&D in Delft (Netherlands) and its HQ in Amsterdam. It was […]

May 9, 2018By Chris Forrester

ANGA COM announces record exhibitors

Five weeks before it starts, ANGA COM has announced new record with 500 exhibitors. Besides the number of companies also the rented floor space has been further increased. In total, 36 countries will be present. The Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Cable & Satellite will take place in Cologne/Germany from June 12th to June 14th. […]

May 9, 2018

Sky Sports Racing, Breeders’ Cup enter rights partnership

At The Races (ATR) will broadcast the 2018 edition of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships exclusively live in the UK and Ireland. In addition, Sky Sports Racing will broadcast the 2019 and 2020 events exclusively live following the launch of the new HD, dedicated racing channel, as the successor to ATR, in January 2019. Under […]

May 9, 2018

Google Assistant on LG TVs

The Google Assistant is now available on LG’s 2018 AI TV line-up. This includes both LG OLED TVs and LG Super UHD TVs with ThinQ AI, which will deliver AI features operated directly through the TV’s remote control with no additional hardware required. Google and LG sat the collaboration between will add more convenience in […]

May 9, 2018