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Wales v England peaks at 18.7m on BBC, while iPlayer enjoys best ever week
BBC announces that 18.7 million tune in to its coverage of Wales v England as BBC iPlayer reports its best ever week
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Global OTT revenues to hit $243 billion by 2028
Revenues from OTT television and movies predicted to generate $17 billion in 2023, growing to $243 billion globally by 2028
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BBC One HD rolls out to the regions
Viewers with Freesat, Freeview, Sky and YouView devices will be able to watch local BBC One programming in HD by April 2023
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Spain gives UHD broadcasts the green light
UHD Spain announced that the tests will take place in "practically all the provincial capitals and in some additional important cities"
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England’s World Cup opener breaks BBC streaming records
However, in terms of linear viewing a bigger audience tuned into ITV's coverage of Wales's draw against the United States
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Spain’s RTVE set for ‘world first’ 4K DTT broadcast
Broadcaster will air around 20 matches from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 4K UHD
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Apple ‘building 3D video service’ for new AR headset
The company has long been rumoured to be planning to launch an augmented reality headset next year
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Study: The way UK viewers watch sport is ‘nearing a tipping point’
Study by Grabyo suggests sports fans in the UK are increasingly choosing to watch content on their smartphones or via a streaming device over...
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BBC iPlayer reports record third quarter viewing driven by sports, national events
The BBC reported its BVoD service saw 1.65 billion streams between July and September, a record for the third quarter of the year
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BBC to stream ‘most of’ its FIFA World Cup games in UHD HDR
Broadcaster has the rights to 33 matches during Qatar 2022, including the big game between Wales and England on 29th November.
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Tackling the creative challenges of HDR
Imagine Communications' John Mailhot explains how, with the right technical infrastructure, the scene is set for increased deployment of HDR in more live event...
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The coming of age of 12G
With recent advances in product design, it’s increasingly apparent that many in the broadcast industry are going to bypass quad-link solutions in favour of...
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Countdown to kick-off: FIFA World Cup viewing predicted to smash viewing records
Viewers in the UK, France and Spain said they intend to watch a couple of games a day, while in Germany and Italy it's...
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4K/UHD for all – a pipedream or reality?
MediaKind's principal technologist Tony Jones takes a look at how the battle to deliver top-resolution quality to all consumers everywhere comes down to a...
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DTG publishes latest version of the D-Book
The D-Book's set of technical specifications underpins Freeview Play, Freesat, BT TV, Now, TalkTalk TV and YouView
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Is 8K’s future under threat from the European Union?
The 8K Association warned the EU's new 8K EU Regulatory Ruling could have a "very chilling effect on all players working to develop the...
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Netflix signs up to BARB
BARB is the first industry-owned audience currency in the world that Netflix has joined. The board will now report daily Netflix viewing from 1...
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‘Snackable’ highlights and social media help drive non-live sport consumption
In the UK, almost as many fans are watching sport live as are watching highlights, in Germany that figure reverses, with more watching highlights
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UKTV Play adds HD content from this autumn
New shows will be available from November, with back catalogue content, for which a HD master exists, being re-coded
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Google ‘preparing to launch own version of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision’
Google is said to have already discussed the project with hardware manufacturers
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TP Vision announced as launch partner for DTG DVB-I test suite
The test suite aims to provide comprehensive, reliable reference metadata and media streams as well as a suite of test cases to validate all...
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Warner Bros Discovery Sports smashes US Open coverage
Compared to 2021's tournament, WBDS said this year's event saw streaming audiences on discovery plus more than double
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Ai-Media joins forces with Grass Valley on automated captions
Grass Valley customers can also add live multilingual captions via Ai-Media’s automated Lexi Translate solution
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If a single picture is worth 1,000 words, how valuable is video?
Andre Torsvik, VP marketing strategy and planning at Vizrt Group, argues that for broadcasters worldwide the competitive environment is increasing and the number of...
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BARB launches consultation on reporting on ‘television-like’ content on video sharing platforms
The aim of the consultation is to establish an industry-wide consensus on what is meant by television-like content, said BARB
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My Precious: The Rings of Power attracts 25 million viewers on day one
The series launched exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Friday
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NASA to stream return to the Moon in 4K UHD
After the launch was scrubbed on Monday, NASA is no targeting Saturday 3rd September for lift off
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Amazon Interactive Video Service basic channels adds support for HD and Full HD inputs
The expanded functionality is designed to enable streamers and viewers globally to enjoy higher video quality when using a basic channel
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The generation game: Younger viewers watching 7x less scheduled TV than those 65 and over
TV viewers aged 16-24 spend less than an hour (53 minutes) in front of broadcast TV in an average day – a fall of...
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Live events help BBC iPlayer break more records
Glastonbury was Q2's best performing boxset with 36 million streams up to the end of June, and 39.4 million to date
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House of the Dragon set for 4K Ultra HD, HDR 10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos release
The show is set to debut on HBO Max on August 21st
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Lionesses’ victory breaks viewing records
The BBC's coverage of the Women's Euro 2022 final is the most-watched women's football match on UK television of all-time
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WBD’s Tour de France coverage breaks records across 50 European markets
Broadcaster reported its best overall pan-Europe Tour de France television performance on its linear channels for five years
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Millions of TV viewers tune in for Women’s Euro 2022 semi-finals
“These excellent TV viewing figures show the massive appeal of the tournament, as well as the strong development of women’s football in the last...
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iPlayer smashes Wimbledon viewing records
This year's men's final between Nick Krygios and Novak Djokovic was streamed live 2.6 million times on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport online
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WBD: Linear sport channels see 10 per cent growth during first half of 2022
discovery+ has also seen sport video views more than double (149 per cent) and streaming minutes more than triple (213 per cent) compared to...
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161 million viewers tuned into Eurovision
Across the EBU's 34 measured markets, the event saw an increase of 7 million viewers compared to 2021
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Qatar World Cup ‘will reach audience of 5 billion’ says FIFA
In 2018, the tournament reached a global audience of 3.5 billion viewers
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Pluto TV goes live in Scandinavia
The launch is in partnership with Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) in combination with local AVoD service, Viafree
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CTV overtakes linear as Europeans’ preferred entertainment platform
In the UK, 72 per cent of ShowHeroes' respondents said they prefer CTV to linear, while in Germany the figure is 81 per cent,...
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Understanding the impact of content
TVBEurope hears from the organisers of a new taskforce and event looking at the social and cultural impact of content
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Italy’s RAI to broadcast Eurovision in 4K
Both semi-finals and the Grand Final on May 14th will be available to RAI viewers in 4K for the first time