Advanced Television

PUSH launches PUSH LIVE UNLIMITED

PUSH, a live entertainment technology company, has announced PUSH LIVE UNLIMITED, a groundbreaking technology empowering artists, rights holders and brands to simultaneously stream customized live content to an unlimited number of digital destinations including Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Twitter, as well as nearly every other live streaming platform. This technology gives live content creators […]

October 20, 2020

disguise brings the future of xR to London, LA and Hong Kong

disguise has launched three Extended Reality (xR) stages in its London, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong offices. The new stages provide a dedicated space for xR innovation and customer demonstrations, allowing disguise to present new workflows. The disguise team have taken this opportunity to explore and finesse xR workflows, experiment with content ideas, and support […]

October 20, 2020

Euphoria returns to Sky and NOW TV in December

Emmy award-winning drama series Euphoria will return to Sky with two special episodes, with the first debuting this December on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. In the aftermath of being left by Jules at the train station and relapsing, the first special episode follows Rue (played by Emmy-winner Zendaya) as she celebrates Christmas. Written and […]

October 20, 2020

Ultimate Goal to premier on BT Sport in November

BT Sport will premiere the first episode of ‘Ultimate Goal’ on November 3rd at 10.30pm on BT Sport 3. Episodes will air every Tuesday over a six-week run.  Ultimate Goal sees 31 women from across Europe live and train like professional footballers as the hopefuls take centre stage at the home of English Football, St George’s […]

October 20, 2020

Netflix commissions Midnight at the Pera Palace

Netflix has announced a new Netflix Original drama series titled “Midnight at the Pera Palace”, produced by Karga Seven Pictures Turkey, the Turkish production outfit of award-winning LA-based production company Karga Seven Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company. The eight-episode Turkish language series has started production in multiple locations in Turkey. “Midnight at the Pera […]

October 20, 2020

DreamWorks deal for Sky Kids

In a boost to its kids programming having lost linear access to Disney content, and in a sign of the benefit of their common Comcast ownership, Sky and NBCUniversal Global Distribution have agreed a long-term partnership to bring Sky customers hundreds of hours of animated series featuring celebrated characters from DreamWorks Animation. The deal includes […]

October 19, 2020

Forecast: 5G will be 44% of operator revs

Findings from Juniper Research indicate that operator billed revenue from 5G connections will reach $357 billion by 2025; rising from $5 billion in 2020, its first full year of commercial service. By 2025, 5G revenue is anticipated to represent 44 per cent of global operator billed revenue owing to rapid migration of 4G mobile subscribers […]

October 19, 2020

Analyst: Peacock big with older users; HBO Max millennials

Analysis of Ampere’s Consumer media consumption and behaviour tracker surveying 4,000 US Internet users has revealed a solid performance for both HBO Max which launched at the end of May, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock which followed in July. Despite lockdown rules delaying some of the content each SVoD service had planned, at the time fieldwork (August/September […]

October 19, 2020

EU to seek pan-European broadband-by-satellite system?

ASD-Eurospace, Europe’s space industry trade association, issued what it called an ‘Industry Manifesto’ on October 15 which called for a “resilient satellite system for secure connectivity […] to make Europe fit for the Digital Age”. The document calls for a constellation of Low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, owned by the European Commission, and serving military, […]

October 19, 2020By Chris Forrester

EU States call for 5G ‘disinformation’ action

Fifteen EU Member States have written to European Union Commissioners calling for a communications strategy that provides reliable information related to 5G. In the letter to Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President, Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, and Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, the States – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, […]

October 19, 2020By Colin Mann