UKTV has appointed Ronan Hand director of programme funding. The company says the position has been created to help the broadcaster realise its ambitions for rights ownership and original commissions. Hand will be responsible for expanding UKTV’s international sales footprint and amplifying the role of advertiser funded programming within UKTV’s programme mix. Simon Michaelides, UKTV’s […]
According to Tristan Veale, Market Analyst at Futuresource Consulting, the rate of consumer uptake and service roll-out of UHD services will benefit from industry resolution of a range of technology issues. In a blog post, Veale noted that the UHD sector has continued its steady evolution over the last year, from a consumer perspective becoming […]
The Ultra HD Forum – the global organisation responsible for promoting market adoption of Ultra HD – has paved the way for the next wave of UHD technologies by releasing Phase B Guidelines covering dynamic metadata, higher refresh rates, lower bandwidth requirement and next generation audio. According to Madeleine Noland, Chair of the Guidelines Work […]
Massive and Evergent, with Google Cloud, have today announced a collaboration to create a solution that will enable MVPDs to offer competitive “a-la-carte” content bundles to their customers. The move is in response to heightened cord-cutting practices as a result of increasing demand from consumers for more control over what they are paying for, which […]
LG U+ launches next-gen Pro Baseball League service powered by Media Excel HERO HEVC Encoder LG U+ became the first telecom operator in South Korea to introduce a real-time omni-view experience to its valued subscribers for Professional Baseball League matches. The new service offers real-time video from different angles―home base, first base, third base and […]
Cybermedia Television, a provider of Virtual CDN technology with its StreamUnlimited service, has released Yourown.tv, an entry level cloud-based TV scheduler, allowing any content provider to start its own tv channel in minutes. Until recently, TV schedulers and play-out has lagged behind advancements in cloud-based technology. Cybermedia Television offers an entry level, easy to use […]
Analyst firm CCS Insight has raised its near-term forecast for global 5G connections following impressive progress made by the industry over the past six months. This headway has been accelerated by agreement on standards, trials, deployment of chipsets and infrastructure, and operator commitments to the technology. A significant milestone was the ratification of the non-standalone […]
Pay-TV is increasingly gaining ground in Spain with more and more penetration, rising from 23 per cent in 2012 to 33 per cent in 2016 and 41 per cent in 2021, according to the Conecta 2018. Pay TV in Spain report from Deloitte. The report reveals that between 2012 and 2016 pay-TV increased its number […]
Eutelsat is ordering up a new broadband satellite from Thales Alenia which is replacing a planned joint-venture with California-based ViaSat. Konnect VHTS (Very High Throughput Satellite) is the new craft. Eutelsat, in a statement said: “The investment in Konnect VHTS replaces the project of a joint investment with ViaSat in a ViaSat 3 satellite for […]
Digital piracy has experienced a decrease in Spain for second consecutive year in terms of absolute figures, although the percentage of individuals accessing pirate content remains the same. In 2017, there were 4.005 billion digital illegal accesses to content with a market value of €21.899 billion. The profit loss suffered by the sector increased 4.1 per […]