GfK, in collaboration with TVB, the not-for-profit trade association for local broadcast television, have revealed preliminary results from the 2020 Media Comparisons Study. Key findings indicate US consumers spend more time with television than all other ad-supported media platforms. The study also revealed that consumers overwhelmingly trust local broadcast TV news over any other source. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has, as largely expected, endorsed its own draft C-band proposals in its open agenda meeting of the full Commission. FCC departmental staff (notably the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau) explained their proposals, which didn’t deviate from their earlier published proposals. They explained how the planned Auction 107 would be adopted using some […]
BT Sport and Samsung have screened the UK’s first public live 8K sports broadcast, with a screening of the UEFA Europa League match between Arsenal and Olympiacos (round of 32). BT Sport and Samsung collaborated to deliver the broadcast live from the Emirates Stadium using a bespoke BT Sport 8K outside broadcast set up, delivered […]
Online TV usage in 2019 grew by 4.4 per cent year-on-year, to 34.5 per cent of users of Italy. Mobile TV also saw growth (+2.3 per cent to 28.2 per cent), according to the annual Censis report on Italy’s communications sector. Meanwhile, both traditional TV (DTT) and satellite TV continued to lose viewers. The first […]
In the wake of UK broadcast regulator Ofcom’s publication of its review of public service broadcasting, Stephen van Rooyen, EVP and CEO, UK and Europe, has suggested that the regulator should consider a radical reform of the PSB model. “It’s clear from Ofcom’s report that the UK broadcast landscape has been transformed over the past […]
Huawei is to build a highly automated manufacturing plant in France, in a location yet to be named. Huawei France has already announced a new R&D centre in the country and revealed that the company had chosen Europe as the base of its first factory outside China dedicated to 5G equipment. Huawei said France offered […]
A criminal found guilty of supplying illegal streaming devices (ISDs) providing unauthorised access to Premier League content has been ordered to pay back more than £520,000 (€609,000) to the ‘public purse’. In April 2018, John Dodds was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison having pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to defraud. Dodds sold ISDs to […]
More than a million UK homes across the West Midlands are set to benefit from the region’s fastest gigabit home broadband service which boasts speeds up to 20 times quicker (according to Virgin Media) than the current regional average. Following continued investment in the region, Virgin Media will switch on its next-generation Gig1 Fibre Broadband […]
BritBox, the UK SVoD service created by the BBC and ITV, is now available on Amazon Fire TV, continuing its distribution growth. Around fifteen million homes are now able to watch BritBox on the biggest screen in the house. BritBox is now widely accessible on TV streaming devices adding Amazon Fire TV, to Apple TV […]
Flipino entertainment and media company ABS-CBN has filed two civil complaints in US Federal Courts against two individuals in a piracy network spanning across US state lines, seeking damages in the millions for allegedly pirating ABS-CBN’s copyrighted content via illegal IPTV boxes. One lawsuit was filed in the Federal Court, Southern District of Texas against […]