Grass Valley has extended its longstanding relationship with Italian broadcast distributor and systems integrator Video Progetti, strengthening its sales and support operations in the Italian market. The Grass Valley Italian support teams are now co-located at Video Progetti’s Rome headquarters, allowing greater cooperation between the two companies. “Our ethos is about keeping our sales, service […]
Eleven Italy will bring fans live action from the Italian Motor Speed Championship (CIV) this season. Coverage begins on April 17th with the first round of the Championship taking place at the Mugello Circuit in Tuscany. Eleven will bring motorsports fans every round of the Championship across its OTT and social platforms. There will be […]
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is relaunching its VoD activities this month, with the merger of its two existing platforms, Mediaset Play and Infinity. Renamed as ‘Mediaset Play Infinity’, the new streaming platform will feature new graphics and include a new Smart TV application. It will offer both free content from the Mediaset terrestrial TV networks and […]
A study by Italian research institute Censis has revealed that 19 million Italians follow radio stations in video format via multiscreen, of which almost 11 million are via a TV screen. Despite the heavy impact of Covid-19 on advertising sales, radio remains widely popular in Italy, with over 41 million Italians tuning in to radio […]
Italy’s national Post Office says its digital services arm, PostePay, will launch FTTH services later this year. The company is already the country’s largest MVNO (by subscribers) via its PosteMobile unit, which has more than 4.3 million customers. The plan is to offer converged fixed-mobile services and expand its customer base to 5.1 million by […]
Video streaming in Italy grew by 52 per cent in January 2021 compared to the same month last year, while linear TV grew by only 11 per cent in the same period. These figures come from a study by digital marketing consultancy Sensemakers that confirms last year’s positive trend in video streaming consumption, especially during […]
A Milan Court has issued an order to US provider CloudFlare to stop providing hosting services to illegal IPTV operators. Failure to do so will result in a penalty of €5,000 for each day of non-compliance with the judge’s order. The Specialised Business Section of the Milan Court also ordered provider Google Ireland to provide […]
At the end of December 2020, there were 390 TV channels, owned by 114 broadcasting groups, that could be received in Italy via the main distribution platforms. The report, published by Confindustria TV, considered all channels distributed on the national DTT multiplexes, the subscription-based satellite platform Sky Italia and FTA DTH service TivùSat. The figures […]
Italy’s broadcasting sector saw a 10.7 per cent annual drop in revenues during the first half of 2020, to €3.9 billion, largely brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a report by Mediobanca, radio suffered the most (-29 per cent), followed by free-to-air TV (-14 per cent), while pay-TV revenue was relatively stable (-0.8 […]
Italy’s free-to-air satellite platform Tivùsat, which broadcasts 180 TV and radio channels (including 57 in HD and 7 in 4K), has surpassed 6 million viewers. From December 2019 to December 2020, Tivùsat registered 40 per cent audience growth, compared to an overall growth of the TV audience in Italy of 11.3 per cent, according to […]