THEMA, a CANAL+ Group company, has announced the first deal for Vivaldi on Samsung TV Plus; the classical music FAST channel is available now for viewers in Spain and Italy. Samsung TV Plus is Samsung’s free ad-supported Smart TV video service, delivering instant access to news, sports, entertainment, and more. Samsung TV Plus delivers free […]
Over half (58 per cent) of Italian households subscribe to at least one of the major SVoD platforms, 10 per cent higher than in 2020, according to a survey by GfK Sinottica. Italian households, on average, have access to two SVoD platforms, and the market has significant growth potential as about three million households say […]
Italian broadcasters united in the Confindustria Radio Television association have agreed that December 20th will be the last day of broadcasting DTT channels in MPEG-2. Consequently, from December 21st, TV viewers will only be able to receive TV channels broadcast using MPEG-4 encoding. According to the association, the establishment of a common date will enable […]
Italian telco TIM is moving forward with the deployment of new generation networks and services in Italy, and is taking high-performance FTTH fibre connections of up to 10 gigabits per second to homes thanks to XGS-PON technology (10 Gigabit capable Symmetric Passive Optical Network). TIM says it is already bringing this technology to 4.2 million […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will launch a new free-to-air DTT channel in Italy by the end of October. The channel will air movies and TV series from the Warner Bros library and will be distributed throughout Italy on channel position 37. According to daily Il Sole 24 Ore, WBD has taken out a five-year lease […]
Italian public broadcaster Rai is boosting its international presence by launching a new streaming platform. From October, the existing RaiPlay VoD platform will add an international section called Rai Italy, the director of the foreign markets offer, Fabrizio Ferragni, told the Ansa news agency. Content will be aired in English with Italian subtitles or in […]
Celebrated director Tim Burton has been confirmed to attend Lucca Comics & Games 2022, Europe’s biggest pop culture festival which runs from 28th October to 1st November in the medieval town of Lucca, Italy. On October 31st, Burton will be in Italy for the European Fan Screening of the first episode of Wednesday, the highly […]
Despite a context of geo–political and economic crises, characterised by increased inflation, an energyemergency and a fall in consumer confidence, MFE – MediaForEurope has reported its accounts in the first six months of 2022 were not significantly affected thanks to “an immediate response by management”. Consolidated net revenues were up compared with the same period […]
Sky Italia is investing €1.2 billion per year for content and TV rights in Italy, revealed CEO Andrea Duilio speaking to local daily Il Sole 24 Ore. According to Duilio, the pay-TV broadcaster allocated €260 million in 2021 alone, which is 30 per cent more than three years ago. Despite the continued multiplication of OTT […]
Mediaset Italia has chosen the WHATS’ON Media Business Management Platform by MEDIAGENIX to manage the scheduling processes for all their linear channels and their Mediaset Infinity AVOD/SVOD streaming platform as part of a future-oriented and company-wide transformation of their content supply chain. Hosted in a MEDIAGENIX cloud, WHATS’ON will be used to manage the three […]