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 […]
The number of Italians able to receive satellite TV transmissions in Italy reached 19.8 million in May 2022, accounting for a 34.3 per cent penetration rate. Research conducted by Studio Frasi, based on Auditel data, shows that in 14 years, the number of satellite TV viewers has grown by 3.39 million or by 17.8 per […]
Hitachi Kokusai Electric has completed what it describes as a “massive” project to provide high-end video cameras to Italy’s leading broadcasters. The two long-term contracts provided cameras to upgrade all the principal production studios and outside broadcast units for HD/UHD capture. While not specifying who the end client/s were, Hitachi says the latest deliveries complete […]
FOR-A has provided an HVS-1200 switcher to Italian production company PTB. The new switcher replaces an existing FOR-A product in the company’s outside broadcast unit, and upgrades the truck to 4k capabilities to meet client demands.PTB is a broadcast and live events production company, based in Bergamo near Milan. Its clients include the major broadcasters […]
Reception problems for DAZN’s Italian Serie A football coverage on the opening weekend of the season have led to an outcry across Italy, including from the political world. Subscribers to the streaming platform had difficulty logging in to watch four matches of the new football season. As the problems became more widespread on August 14th, […]
Paramount+, the streaming service from Paramount Global, will arrive in Italy on September 15th with over 8,000 hours of content spanning all genres at launch, including a wide range of exclusive programming at a cost of €7.99 per month. An annual subscription will be available at €79.90. “Paramount+ is rapidly expanding its global footprint, offering […]
Eleven Italy has acquires the LBA Pay Package of Domestic Audiovisual Rights for the 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons. From September 2022, the LBA Serie A championship can be watched exclusively on Eleven’s global OTT offering. All Serie A championship matches including the regular season and Playoff, the Final Eight of the Italian Cup, and […]
StreamAMG has been chosen by Italian football club Inter Milan to supply the technology behind their new online video service. From the start of the 2022/23 season, the Nerazzurri will use StreamAMG’s services to run Inter TV, the Serie A club’s new OTT service that offers on-demand exclusive club content around the men’s and women’s […]
TIM, the Italian telco, is testing multicast signal distribution over satellite to offer its customers high quality, live streaming – even in the country’s most remote areas. The testing, delivered through the TimVision Box in Adaptative Bit Rate (ABR) multicast mode, was developed in collaboration with Eutelsat, which owns and operates the Eutelsat Konnect satellite […]
Italy’s Mediaset is expanding its HD offering on the Tivùsat DTH platform as of July 17th. Besides the existing HD versions of Canale 5; Rete 4; Italia 1; and 27, the broadcaster will add eight more TV channels in HD, namely Iris, La5, Cine34, Focus, Top Crime, Tgcom24, Mediaset Extra and Italia2. This will bring […]