Videe, the Italian broadcast production company, is accelerating its adoption of next-generation workflows through Sony’s 5G production technologies. The project is the end result of a comprehensive commercial trial during which the company tested multiple systems and has now adopted six Sony 5G kits built around the NXL-ME80 media edge processor, CBK-RPU7 remote production unit, and PDT-FP1 portable data transmitter. As […]
waipu.tv has announced a content partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment Germany. As part of the deal, waipu.tv is bringing three new channels to the platform. The channels – Retro Universe, Series Universe and Movies Universe – present a range of content spanning different genres and eras in HD from the Sony Pictures catalogue. “Sony Pictures […]
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has announced that it is placing renewed emphasis on shared viewing. By reimagining game shows and reality television, the company says it will be “transforming formats once seen as traditional into powerful unifiers that bring Indian families across generations back to the living room”. As content consumption fragments across platforms, […]
Official statistics from the British Film Institute (BFI) show inward investment film and high-end TV (HETV) titles contributing £5.8 billion (€6.6bn) to the UK economy in 2025, fuelled by Hollywood productions. The 2025 inward investment production statistics, up from £5 billion in 2024, which BFI said demonstrates “the inherent strength, stability and longer-term sustainability of […]
All episodes of the new Sky Exclusive comedy-drama, The Miniature Wife, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen will be available on Sky and streaming service NOW from April 9th in the UK & Ireland. Marriage gets hilariously complicated in The Miniature Wife, when Banks (Pitch Perfect, The Hunger Games) is unexpectedly shrunk in a technological […]
LG has joined the likes of Sony and TCL in exiting the 8K TV market. Sony, to its credit, pushed 8K programming and television technology as hard as it could. From sponsoring and backing 4K and then 8K technologies at the MIP and MIPCOM programming markets, the Japanese technology giant echoed the NHK public broadcaster […]
Viaplay Content Distribution has boarded seasons two and three of the acclaimed Swedish Nordic noir crime thriller Veronika, further expanding the international reach of SkyShowtime’s local original series, which has been recommissioned across more than 20 markets. Following the strong global performance of season one – licensed across 55 international markets– Viaplay Content Distribution will handle […]
Nevion, a Sony group company, has announced that Thomas Heinzer, the company’s founder and CEO, has decided to step down from his role at the end of the financial year which concludes on March 31st, 2026. Nevion’s present CFO, Heidi Mello Stavnar will become the new CEO of Nevion, effective April 1st. Heinzer founded Network […]
Global TV shipments declined 1 per cent YoY in November 2025, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Monthly TV Tracker, reversing the growth seen in the previous two months. In MoM terms, the shipments fell 15 per cent in November, as September and October shipments had been boosted by inventory accumulation ahead of year-end peak sales. […]
Visitors to the CES technology show earlier in January perhaps wondered why Sony didn’t have a presence. Now they know. Sony is to form a joint-venture with Chinese rival TCL to take over its TV business. TCL will own 51 per cent of the business, with Sony taking a back seat with 49 per cent. […]