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Hisense announces Freely availability

Home appliances and consumer electronics specialist Hisense has confirmed that all Hisense 2024/2025 Laser products will be updated to include streaming platform Freely to offer seamless, subscription-free TV from October 2025. The update reflects the deepening partnership between Hisense and Everyone TV, the organisation leading the evolution of free TV. Freely, backed by the BBC, […]

October 24, 2025By Colin Mann

Liberty Global sells half its ITV stake

Liberty Global has sold 193.4 million shares in UK commercial PSB ITV to institutional investors for £135 million (€155m), cutting its holding to 5 per cent. Liberty Global said the move was part of a broader portfolio realignment: “As stated in our Q1 2025 earnings, we’re actively managing our Liberty Growth portfolio, disposing of certain […]

October 24, 2025By Colin Mann

Ofcom spectrum auction: Results finalised

UK comms regulator Ofcom has announced the final results of its mmWave spectrum auction, following completion of the remaining stages. On October 16th, Ofcom announced the results of the Principal stage, which determined how much spectrum each of the three bidders – EE, O2 and VodafoneThree – had won, and how much they had committed […]

October 24, 2025By Colin Mann

Conference warns of online IP crime threat

A new wave of online crime is putting consumers, businesses, and the wider economy at risk – from fake medicines and forged wine to illegal streaming platforms, according to a conference, ‘From CLICK to CRIME: Investigating Intellectual Property Crime in the Digital Age’ held on October 22nd and 23rd 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The increase […]

October 24, 2025By Colin Mann

Prime Video India launches NBA League Pass add-on

Prime Video has announced NBA League Pass, the NBA’s subscription service for streaming live and on-demand games, as an add-on subscription, offering basketball fans the most comprehensive way to follow and enjoy the NBA. This marks the first time NBA League Pass is being made available in India as an add-on subscription on Prime Video. […]

October 24, 2025

Spanish Congress supports La Liga’s anti-piracy strategy

Spain’s Committee on Economic Affairs, Trade and Digital Transformation of the Spanish Congress of Deputies has held a debate and vote on a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) concerning dynamic IP address blocking in the context of the fight against audiovisual fraud. As a result of the vote, the PNL in question was not approved, thereby supporting […]

October 23, 2025By Colin Mann

UK altnets unveil infrastructure sharing venture

The UK Altnet sector has created a new infrastructure sharing venture to complement Openreach’s Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) framework and boost revenues of independent broadband network providers, including a slice of the huge mobile and datacentre markets. As Altnets continue to build their share of the broadband market after years of investment in full fibre […]

October 23, 2025By Colin Mann

Eutelsat Q1: Video down, OneWeb up

Eutelsat’s Q1 numbers (it has a trading year that ends on June 30th) shows overall revenues down by 2.2 per cent YoY at €293 million. The division with the largest fall in revenue is Video, and which still accounts for 47 per cent of revenues, and where its DTH revenues amounted to €134 million, down […]

October 22, 2025By Chris Forrester

UEFA, ACE team for antipiracy initiative

European football’s governing body UEFA has officially joined the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the content protection coalition dedicated to combating digital piracy. UEFA becomes the first exclusive sports rights-holder to join ACE, while contributing to a broader industry-wide effort to safeguard the value of creative and sporting content worldwide. UEFA will play an […]

October 22, 2025By Colin Mann

Analysis: Game-to-anime commissions up 137% YoY

A report from Ampere Analysis has found that announced game-to-anime commissions jumped 137 per cent year-on-year in 2024, overtaking comics to become the third-largest source of adaptations. With anime’s strong and growing appeal among gamers, video content producers are maximising game universes to reach established anime viewers and convert gaming audiences into new fans. As […]

October 20, 2025