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Moving a TV station
Moving a busy broadcast centre is not an easy task. Choosing a new location and engaging an architect with a building design you like...
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Move over millenials: Enter Generation Z
Much has been said of millenials, but it is a new breed of consumer which media and entertainment (M&E) leaders need to analyse and...
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Inside the MD’s office: Rogo Scott
James Groves speaks to Rogo Scott's joint managing directors Ben Clasper and Peter Cook about recruitment, rebranding, and a “four-minute” start up
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Content is still king
Last month, we released our ‘Navigating the Bundle Jungle: Content, connectivity and consumer trust’ study, which monitors and evaluates the attitudes of UK consumers...
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Lawo on leveraging the potential of immersive audio
Although 5.1 sound was actually used (albeit in a very minimal way) in film as far back as the 1970s, it was only in...
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TVBEurope roundtable: storage matters
TVBEurope hosted its latest industry roundtable last week at London's Soho Hotel. Held in association with Quantum, the afternoon's theme was storage for the...
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Free Akamai webinar: BOCC – Best Practices
In partnership with TVBEurope, Akamai is delivering a series of free, insightful and innovative webinars to the broadcast industry over the coming weeks. The...
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When TV advertising becomes one-to-one
When looking back on 2016, the two standout stories will inevitably be the rise of Trump and the vote for Brexit, both examples of...
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IP, VR and sexy workflows
Adam Fry, vice president of Sony Professional Europe, is one of the coolest Joe Cools around. With live sports now providing 90 per cent...
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Widening the reach of multiscreen
Connectivity has enabled operators to launch multiscreen services and extend the reach of their TV offering to connected consumers. However, the increase in the...
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Eighty years of High Definition
Let’s face it; early descriptions of television were not very complimentary. Philo Farnsworth, credited with creating the first fully electronic system, is reported to...
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Does the screen matter for live sports?
Sports rights are now a target of social media players just as much as extending the reach of sports properties onto OTT platforms is...
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A smooth transition to an IP-based workflow
The broadcast industry is in the midst of a significant technological shift: the transition from SDI to IP-based workflows. The benefits of switching to...
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How do you connect your TV data?
It was widely reported that prior to the February 2013 debut of House of Cards, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos revealed his game...
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Supply and demand – the economics of unscripted TV
After the muted response to the latest series of Top Gear, it was clear something wasn’t quite right under the bonnet of the cherished...
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Broadcast and telecoms: two worlds collide
Duncan McKean, head of broadcast and media tchnology at CCgroup assesses how the broadcast and telecoms industries are coming together and competing
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The experience blueprint
The way that we consume video content has changed drastically in the last ten years. Thanks to the rise of services like Netflix, Hulu...
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The rise of the hybrid
It's an exciting time to be in the TV industry. While viewing of linear TV still accounts for the vast majority of consumption in...
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Mainstream VR – virtually a reality?
Virtual reality is still in its infancy but is already attracting significant investment from major tech players including Google, Facebook and Samsung. This big...
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A war on two fronts?
As major pay-TV players scramble to win back audiences falling victim to the OTT revolution, are social media sites taking advantage of the siege...
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Rethinking subscriber management
The battle for the hearts of pay-TV subscribers is in full swing. In almost every region, the number of subscription-based pay-TV services across cable,...
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Making the most of OTT
Fierce competition for exclusive live sports rights means the challenge for media companies has never been clearer, writes Stan Dimitrov, product marketing manager, OTT
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Akamai webinar: Enhancing video quality and performance
In partnership with TVBEurope, Akamai is delivering a series of free, insightful and innovative webinars to the broadcast industry over the coming weeks. The...
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Three steps to curbing video piracy
The digital revolution that has and continues to flourish globally has led to a rise in consumer expectations. Access to their favourite movies, TV...
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Sharing the content
Live content sharing between media companies has created issues, not least of which is the desire to maintain and promote an onscreen brand. Having...
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Akamai webinar series: Analysing the “next generation” of challenges
Four insightful and innovative webinars will be delivered over the coming weeks
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From Stockholm to Stockley Park
Over seven million BBC One viewers watched this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final - an increase of half a million viewers over the...
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Remote editing on The Island
Michael Burns looks at the how the post production team on The Island with Bear Grylls overcame problems of location and logistics to produce...
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Inside the chief executive’s office
Philip Stevens talks to the CEO of the Olympic host broadcaster about the upcoming spectacular in South America
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Producing the BBC Proms
More than 90 concerts over eight weeks, including four Last Night celebrations around the UK, will make up the 122nd season of Henry Wood...
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Surreal VFX makes an impact in two very different docs
High-end drama usually commands the biggest budgets for broadcast CG animation and VFX in the UK, and tends to be from a clutch of...
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Explaining the value in dynamic ad insertion
Dynamic ad insertion has transformed the way broadcasters monetise OTT content, especially where live simulcast is concerned. Paul Davies, manager of communications
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Are pay-TV providers an endangered species?
As more television sets become internet-enabled, online content is finding its way from computer and mobile screens to the TV screens of our living...
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Moving up a grade
Camera technology is driving and exploiting a demand for ever higher resolution and high dynamic range, expanding creativity on the acquisition side. However, the
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Driving engagement
George Jarrett talks to Fabrice Hamaide, CFO and president of Piksel, about the huge advantages that come with a micro services architecture. Netflix and...
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All eyes on Amsterdam
If the past year is anything to go by, the forthcoming IBC exhibition and conference should herald an abundance of exciting new audio developments,...
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VIDEO: TVBEurope 2020: ROI in new media technology
Russell Grute wrapped up the final panel of the day at the second annual TVBEurope 2020 conference: Does new media technology deliver an acceptable...
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VIDEO: TVBEurope 2020: IP-based live production
At the second annual TVBEurope 2020 conference, NEP Worldwide provides a detailed insight into its successful launch of the first fully IP-based multi-camera broadcast...
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DTG remains at the Summit
Had Alice Cooper sat through the DTG Summit on ‘re-engineering for tomorrow’s TV consumer’, he would surely have spotted the potential for re-versioning his...
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British Pathé goes OTT
Holly Ashford talks to British Pathé managing director Roger Felber, and OwnZones CEO Dan Gorman, about a new VoD service from one of the...
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Transforming video delivery
In the early days of digital television some 20 years ago, the only way to encode and multiplex it involved dedicated hardware because standard...
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VIDEO: TVBEurope 2020: Shaping long term strategy
John Ive moderates the TVBEurope 2020 panel: 'How market conditions are shaping long term business strategy'. The insightful panel examined how technological advances