Advanced Television

Real Madrid most visited football team website

Real Madrid finished 2019 as the most visited football club website in the world for the fourth consecutive year, according to figures published by Comscore, the official Internet measurement firm. In a statement, the La Liga football team said: “These excellent audience results are a reflection of Real Madrid’s efforts in the club’s digital transformation […]

February 7, 2020

Pluto TV marks film festival season with award-winning content

With awards season coming to a close this weekend with the Oscars, the show continues on at Pluto TV. The AVoD service is filling its UK  programming with a premium selection of past award-winning and nominated films, TV series and documentaries. Throughout February (until March 1st), the UK channels Pluto TV Movies, Pluto TV Indies, […]

February 7, 2020

Flickerpix acquires rights for Dirty Bertie

Flickerpix, one of Northern Ireland’s leading animation companies, has acquired the rights for the bestselling children’s fiction book series ‘Dirty Bertie’ with plans to develop a new 26 part animation TV series. Flickerpix is the animation arm of leading independent television production company Waddell Media and will be showcasing ‘Dirty Bertie’ at next week’s Kidscreen […]

February 7, 2020

Sky acquires HBO comedy ‘Run’

Written and produced by Vicky Jones (Killing Eve, Fleabag), new half-hour comedy series Run (8 episodes), starts on April 15th on Sky Comedy and NOW TV. Run, from HBO, follows a woman whose humdrum life is thrown upside down when she receives a text from her college sweetheart inviting her to drop everything and meet […]

February 7, 2020

Forecast: Disney+ to reach 126m subs by 2025

Following the results announcement that exceeded even Disney’s expectations, analyst firm Digital TV Research has upgraded its forecasts for Disney+. Disney+ will be the biggest SVoD winner over the next five years. Disney+ will add 105 million paying subscribers between end-2019 and 2025 to take its total to 126 million. Disney+ will reach 53 per […]

February 6, 2020

Intelsat considering Chapter 11?

Later today (at 12pm EST) the FCC will issue its comments on proposals by the C-Band Alliance (CBA) as to the reallocation of satellite spectrum over the US. Bloomberg News is reporting that if the FCC’s decision is not favourable to the CBA, then Intelsat might enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and had instructed law practice […]

February 6, 2020By Chris Forrester

Research: 5G to transform TMT landscape

Omdia, the freshly-rebranded technology research group, has released a new research paper which it says connects the dots between the strategies, technologies, companies and market trends impacting  industries as they transition to 5G. Covering areas as diverse as sports, autonomous vehicles, gaming, wireless components, IoT, cybersecurity and AI – this preview of the 5G developments […]

February 6, 2020

Study: Linear TV ad decline continues

Findings from independent marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity suggest that linear TV is set to see around a 21 per cent fall in overall adult commercial impacts for advertisers by 2025. While brands can build incremental reach using online video, there is significant room to drive quality. The video-focused cross media measurement

February 6, 2020

Google Fiber dropping linear TV

Google Fiber, part of the Access division of Alphabet Inc, which provides gigabit fibre broadband Internet and IPTV to a number of locations in the US, will no longer be offering a traditional linear TV product to its new subscribers, saying it is happy to help everyone explore other options to get their favourite programming […]

February 6, 2020By Colin Mann

FCC proposes updated TV white space rules

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed providing additional opportunities for unlicensed white space devices to deliver wireless broadband services in rural areas of the US. Such devices operate in portions of the broadcast television bands (channels 2-35) and spectrum not being used for authorised services. Chairman Pai is seeking to spur the continued […]

February 6, 2020By Colin Mann