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Bollywood’s Talpade launches Nine Rãsã OTT

Bollywood star Shreyas Talpade has launched his own OTT platform, Nine Rãsã, offering theatre and performing arts content. As the pandemic continues to affect the theatre and arts industry, Talpade has launched the platform to enable the show to go on, and provide theatre fans with an online viewing experience. Commenting on the launch, Talpade […]

April 12, 2021

WrestleMania 37 on BT Sport Box Office

WrestleMania, the WWE’s annual flagship PPV, returns this weekend and will be available to watch in the UK and Ireland via BT Sport Box Office. WrestleMania 37 will be a two night event taking place in the early hours (1am start time) of April 11th and 12th with both nights airing on BT Sport Box […]

April 9, 2021By Nik Roseveare

UK watchdog to boost online competition

A tough new UK regulator to help make sure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online has launched. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), based in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will oversee plans to give consumers more choice and control over […]

April 7, 2021By Colin Mann

Scripps making Newsy an OTA network

The E.W. Scripps Company will soon launch its OTT news network Newsy over the air (OTA) as well – serving the free, growing OTA market of cord-cutting self-bundlers in the US. Newsy’s distribution OTA will make it the only American news television network with ubiquitous OTT and OTA distribution. At its launch on October 1st, […]

April 7, 2021

SpaceX faces regulatory hurdles in India

India’s TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) regulator has been asked to object to Elon Musk’s plan to offer his Starlink broadband-by-satellite service to India. TRAI, as well as India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO), are being asked to object to SpaceX’s Starlink deployment by a group of technology giants under the umbrella Broadband India Forum […]

April 6, 2021By Chris Forrester

Report: Smart home players deploy new strategies

Parks Associates smart home research finds high perceived prices remain a top barrier to smart home adoption, with providers and manufacturers working to bring lower-priced products to market and discontinue specific premium products. The firm’s Smart Home Tracker finds 20.5 million, or 44 per cent of consumers who do not own or intend to purchase a smart […]

March 31, 2021

T-Mobile, Google expand collaboration

T-Mobile has announced plans to expand its collaboration with Google across a wide array of customer experiences later this year, which  will see YouTube TV become T-Mobile’s premium TV solution in place of its TVision initiative. Messages by Google becomes the default rich messaging solution for millions of T-Mobile customers with Android smartphones; promoting Pixel […]

March 30, 2021

Alchimie launches TVPlayer US

Alchimie, the OTT platform featuring original and exclusive thematic channels published jointly with media groups, has announced the launch of its American TVPlayer service – a new service offering US viewers over 30 linear and on demand channels. TVPlayer US brings together a range of themed and special interest channels populated with a selection of […]

March 30, 2021

Data: 30% of UK use Samsung’s Tizen Smart TV platform

Nearly a third of UK households now connect at least one TV to the internet using Samsung’s Tizen smart TV platform, according to data from Strategy Analytics. According to the report, The Complexities of the Multi-Device Connected TV Household, the Samsung platform holds a clear lead over platforms operated by Amazon, Sony and LG, and […]

March 24, 2021

Research: Tizen widens gap as leading smart TV platform

Samsung’s Tizen smart TV streaming platform further extended its lead in 2020 as the number of Tizen devices in use worldwide increased by 21 per cent year-on-year to 162.3 million, according to research from Strategy Analytics’ TV Streaming Platforms service. Strong growth was also seen in Google’s Android TV (+42 per cent), Roku TV OS (+40 […]

March 17, 2021