Axinom, a provider of streaming technology backend components and architecture, has announced its key role as a consortium member and technical lead in this week’s launch of ZDF’s new streaming platform, transforming ZDF-Mediathek into an advanced streaming-first service. The new technology setup ensures a scalable foundation for this European platform. German public service broadcaster ZDF’s […]
Disney+ announces Call My Agent Berlin (WT), the new locally produced Original Series for the German market, which has just finished filming. Friday Film GmbH (producers Johann Buchholz and Henning Kamm) together with Wild Bunch Germany (producers Marc Gabizon, Barbara Mientus) have filmed the German series adaptation of the French hit series Dix pour cent […]
Public and private television broadcasters are working together with associations and organisations to develop a framework for the market launch of DVB-I in Germany. The aim is to create the conditions to simplify the transformation of linear television into streaming. “The new DVB-I TV standard will soon merge streaming and traditional television to an even […]
SES has announced a multi-year extension of its agreement with ProSiebenSat.1. Under the deal, ProSiebenSat.1 will continue to distribute its programmes in Germany and Austria using SES’s satellites at its prime video neighbourhood of 19.2 degrees East. Additionally, ProSiebenSat.1 will integrate content from Joyn, its streaming platform in Germany, with SES’s HD+ TV App. For […]
Deutsche Telekom has reported revenue up 3.4 per cent in 2024 to €115.8 billion. Adjusted EBITDA AL was up 6.2 per cent to €43 billion, and service revenues grew by 3.9 per cent to €96.5 billion. The German telco reports that financial targets were achieved and, in some cases, exceeded, with further growth expected. “Another […]
Sport1, the German FTA channel, has announced that Matthias Reichert, previously Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Member of the Management, has been appointed Managing Director of Sport1 with immediate effect. Reichert has been an integral part of Sport1 (formerly DSF Deutsches SportFernsehen) since 2004, holding various leadership positions in sales, agency, management, new business and […]
For the 2025 season, RTL, in partnership with Sky Sport, will again broadcast seven races as well as eleven qualifying sessions and one sprint race of Formula 1 live on free TV. On the other race weekends, the qualifying or the sprint can be viewed live on RTL+. For the season opener in Melbourne, RTL […]
A new report, Works on television in Europe 2023 data, has been published by the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. This report provides an analysis of films and TV content broadcast in 2023 by a sample of 1,663 European TV channels from 25 European Union countries, i.e. 436 000 […]
The KOTTO and OLO remote controls, developed by t4h. and celebrated for their innovation and sustainability, have added another achievement to their growing list of honours by securing German Design Awards 2025. This follows their recognition at the Red Dot Design Awards 2024 and the iF Design Award 2024 for the KOTTO remote control, solidifying […]
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Dr Andreas Wiele, has informed the company’s Supervisory Board and Executive Board that he will not seek a further term of office after the regular expiry at the German media company. Wiele intends to step down from the Supervisory Board at the end of the Annual […]