Freeview, the UK’s biggest TV platform, has launched what it has described as its most innovative and ambitious advertising campaign yet, The Other Way. Freeview will be running hundreds of short contextual films in TV ad breaks that comment on the storylines of programmes being shown or events that have happened that day throughout October. […]
According to the findings of a report – UK Television in Focus – prepared by professional accountancy body the ICAEW and consultancy firm PwC, substantial investment and volume of deals in the sector are being fuelled by new digital technologies, fast-changing consumer trends and big changes in the international environment. PwC forecasts the global television […]
Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, has declared television still a great business, which will continue to be so, despite the changing consumption habits of the millennial generation. Speaking during an opening Keynote at the RTS London Conference, Burke stressed the importance of positioning companies in the TV industry to maximise their existing infrastructure while preparing […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has announced the launch of Korean public service channel Arirang TV. Available in HD on channel 214, Arirang takes Freesat’s total HD channel offering to 14. Based in Seoul, South Korea, Arirang TV is an English language public broadcaster delivering news, cultural affairs and documentaries to international audiences. […]
Digital UK has published an updated technical specification for connected TV service Freeview Play, setting out new features and requirements for products developed during 2017. Freeview Play combines live television with catch-up TV and on-demand services from the BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and UKTV, making it easy for viewers to watch what […]
TVPlayer, the UK’s online TV platform with over one million viewers, has announced that its multiscreen service will be among the first streaming video platforms to be pre-installed on all new Samsung tablets. The complete rollout will be available on 24 variants of six tablet versions to over 700,000 devices in the UK over the […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed a new three-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, which will see two of the UK’s biggest television formats continuing on Britain’s most watched commercial channel until at least 2019. The agreement, with Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia UK, extends ITV’s successful, long-standing relationship with Simon Cowell […]
UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has confirmed the reforms to the BBC that will require the organisation to be more open and transparent about its operations while making sure the public broadcaster continues to thrive in the future. The draft Royal Charter and the accompanying Framework Agreement set out the details of how the BBC […]
Rona Fairhead, the chair of the BBC Trust, has quit after Prime Minister Theresa May cancelled David Cameron’s reappointment of her to 2018 and insisted she reapply for the post along with others. Fairhead declined. Fairhead she would not put her name forward to become the chair of a powerful new governing board that will […]
ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have struck licensing deals with live streaming platform TVPlayer to simulcast the broadcasters’ free to air channels across a full range of devices including desktops, mobiles, tablets, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku. The agreement sees TVPlayer licensing the Public Service Broadcasters’ free to air channels for the […]