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Sky News web streams set world record

LiveU, a specialist in IP-based live video services and broadcast solutions, has announced that its technology was central to Sky News’ world record beating UK General Election coverage earlier this year. The UK broadcaster has now confirmed that it set a new Guinness World Record for the most concurrent live web streams for an event […]

August 28, 2015

Caribbean TV for Freeview

Arqiva has announced the launch of a new hybrid IPTV channel on the Freeview platform. ABN TV, the African-Caribbean family entertainment channel, will provide content 24 hours a day to audiences with internet-enabled Freeview devices. Tom Cape, Director of Connected Solutions at Arqiva said, “Audiences have for some time now embraced the seamless cross-over of […]

August 27, 2015

Com Hem selects Elemental processing

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that Com Hem, a Swedish supplier of broadband and TV services, has chosen Elemental software-defined video processing systems to support a flexible and scalable unified headend for delivering linear video across cable, IPTV and over-the-top TV networks. Com Hem broadband, television, […]

August 27, 2015

US pay-TV subs down, ARPU up

In perhaps an indication of North American pay-TV operators seeing a silver lining in the cloud that is the decline of their current subscriber numbers, findings from Strategy Analytics suggest the

August 20, 2015

Illegal Dubai operator hit with fine

The Dubai Court has imposed a fine of Dh50,000 (€12,300) on a distributor of UKTV Abroad packages, an unlicensed and unauthorised IPTV service in the UAE. Pay-TV operator OSN filed a copyright infringement complaint against the service provider, with the Dubai Criminal Investigation Department (CID) subsequently carrying out a raid and subsequently bringing court proceedings […]

August 18, 2015By Colin Mann

ABOX42 IPTV service for BBV

Just weeks after DNMG confirmed cooperation with ABOX42 and Zattoo for a white label IPTV multiscreen service for its members,  German broadband provider BBV has signed to become the service’s first adopter.  BBV’s new multiscreen offering will go live this autumn. DNMG’s new IPTV white label solution is a collaboration between set-top box experts ABOX42 and IPTV […]

August 18, 2015By Sanjeev Bhavnani

More evidence of record US pay-TV subs loss

Adding its own findings to the growing evidence of cord-cutting besetting US pay-TV providers, Leichtman Research Group has found that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 470,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2015, compared to

August 17, 2015

Apple TV delayed

Apple is set to delay the launch of its online TV service until at least next year after negotiations with major television networks stalled. Apple’s attempts to license content from US TV networks such as CBS and Fox are reported to be progressing slowly, leading to the delay. In addition, the company does not yet […]

August 14, 2015

Nevion, EBU, VRT to deliver IP studio

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) and Belgian public broadcasting company VRT have unveiled the LiveIP Project, a multi-vendor system integration to showcase IP-based live broadcast production, featuring Nevion equipment and software. The collaboration between EBU, VRT and a group of innovative industry partners including Nevion sees the implementation of a live TV production studio at […]

August 14, 2015

60% UK embrace digital video

Digital video viewing is one of the UK’s most widespread digital activities, with almost 60 per cent of the population predicted to watch digital video content via any device at least once per month in 2015, according to eMarketer’s latest forecasts. Unsurprisingly, digital video viewership among the country’s Internet user population is even stronger and […]

August 11, 2015