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Accedo launches sports offering

Accedo has announced the launch of a range of innovative video solutions designed specifically for the sports market. Accedo for Sports combines Accedo’s product and service offerings with those of select partners to support rights-holders, broadcasters and sponsors in creating and growing their video business. As the impact of Covid-19 continues to be felt across the […]

February 18, 2021

France: Salto is 20% of new SVoD sign-ups

French streaming service Salto, a joint-venture between TF1, M6 and France Télévisions, captured 20 per cent of all new SVoD subscriptions during the final quarter of 2020. Managing director Thomas Follin told AFP that Salto was the third most popular platform in France, behind Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. At the end of December, press […]

February 10, 2021From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

EBU ‘trusted news’ initiative

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has unveiled what it describes as a “pioneering” online initiative that will enable public service media to transcend language barriers and offer their audiences trusted news content produced by counterparts from across Europe. This multilingual content will provide a pan-European perspective on issues of key interest to national audiences such […]

January 27, 2021By Colin Mann

VUALTO protects France Télévisions content

VUALTO, an on-demand video streaming and DRM provider, has announced that France Télévisions, the French public broadcaster and leading audiovisual group in France, has chosen to implement VUALTO’s digital rights management solution, VUDRM, to protect and deliver its audiovisual content across all its digital platforms. Fernando López Navarro, Technical Head of Digital Video Distribution, France […]

December 2, 2020

Salto goes live on Oct 20

France’s Salto, the joint streaming platform co-owned by leading French broadcasters, TF1, France Télévisions and M6, will go live on October 20th, according to local reports. Salto has already started consumer testing in June with a promised launch in the autumn of this year. At launch, Salto’s catalogue will include an archived library from the […]

October 15, 2020By Chris Forrester

France Télévisions chooses MEDIAGENIX

French public broadcaster France Télévisions has chosen Whats’on — the BMS by MEDIAGENIX — to replace their current Broadcast Management Systems and manage all their linear channels and on-demand services in a unified process. With more than 9,000 employees and operating multiple TV channels on international, national, regional and local levels France Télévisions is the […]

October 14, 2020

Report: UK is Europe’s leading BVoD market

A study using Ampere Analysis’s most recent AVoD revenue data has revealed that European broadcasters are no longer playing catch-up when it comes to first run VoD content. Broadcaster VoD (BVoD) audiences tend to be younger and more affluent than those who watch linear television, which has contributed to an increase in digital-only commissions. Investment […]

July 20, 2020

France Télévisions overseas portal open

French PSB group France Télévisions has launched on its digital portal for international territories. The service was initially slated for a March 31st launch, which was consequently delayed by the Covid-19 outbreak. Branded Outre-mer la 1ère, like France Télévisions’ overseas TV channels, the multi-format OTT platform looks to give a future to France Ô channel […]

June 4, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

France: Salto goes beta before autumn launch

French VoD/SVoD platform Salto – a joint venture between TF1, M6 and France Télévisions – has begun its first test phase, a few months before its planned commercial launch later this year. “We’re in the starting blocks, the test phase has started on Wednesday” managing director Thomas Folin told AFP. Initially scheduled for Q1 of […]

June 3, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris