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Disney Plus ‘has hit some headwinds’ warns CEO

Bob Chapek warns the company expects to add “low single-digit millions” of streaming subscribers in Q4

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NENT Group’s Viaplay expands to UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Viaplay will launch in the UK in the second half of 2022 and then in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during 2023

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Sky ‘planning own smart TV’ to take on the streamers

Broadcaster could officially announce plans as early as next month

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Virgin Media-O2 planning IPTV launch by end of 2021

CEO Lutz Schueler reveals plans to launch new IPTV aimed at younger viewers

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Virgin Media boosts digital ad strategy with Google Ireland

Ireland's leading commercial broadcaster has partnered with Google Ireland on what is described as a first-of-its-kind integration of Pause Ads for Google Ad Manager

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EBU tests content production on private 5G networks

Project is looking at the use of Non-Public Networks (NPN) in three scenarios: live audio production, multi-cam wireless studio production, and live immersive content production

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Case study: Delivering live TV services across Sweden

How video technology company Appear worked with Swedish telco Sappa to deliver live TV services

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HBO Max confirms first European launch dates

Streamer will debut in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra next month

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HBO Max execs reveal European roll-out plans

Streamer will launch in some European territories this year

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Four new tech firms join 5G VISTA consortium

ATEME, Imaginary Pictures, Ori, and 5GIC join 5G VISTA Live Entertainment Consortium that aims to showcase new in-stadia digital experiences using enhanced connectivity technologies...

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Fox makes strategic investment in Eluvio

Fox Corporation invests in Michelle Munson-led company to accelerate the adoption of Eluvio’s platform across the broader media and entertainment industry

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Feature: Are independent voices becoming lost in streaming TV shuffle?

Navdeep Saini, co-founder and CEO of DistroScale, parent company of DistroTV, looks at the Covid content collapse, where the streaming market is headed, and...

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Comcast, ViacomCBS announce new streamer for select European markets

New SVoD SkyShowtime will launch in 2022

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UK government renews Freeview licences for another decade

Government intends to make ownership of Multiplex 2, which is currently jointly owned by Channel 4 and ITV, contingent on PSB status

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Disney Plus beats expectations again

Streamer is half way to the company's own target 230 million to 260 million subscribers by 2024

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Over a million viewers lose TV signal following transmitter fire

Fire at Bilsdale transmitter has led to TV signal being switched off "indefinitely"

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ITV Hub records best ever month

ITV Hub+, the ad-free subscription version of ITV Hub, also broke records

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ViacomCBS partners with Sky to launch Paramount Plus in Europe

Announcement follows hot on the heels of last week's news that Comcast's streaming service Peacock will launch on Sky platforms later this year

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Sky brings Peacock to Europe

Comcast's streaming service will make its international debut in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland

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BBC iPlayer sees 3.3 billion streams in first half of 2021

Line of Duty, EastEnders and Euro 2020 have helped the BBC's streaming service break records

Keep your fans engaged!

How event-based TV content such as cliffhanger dramas and Reality TV can be used to personalise the viewer experience and maximise monetisation opportunities

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Tokyo Olympics gets underway as Sky adds 4K HDR

Sky is today rolling out 4K HDR options for its coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which it will continue to deploy for...

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HBO Max European launch may be pushed to 2022

Streamer was expected to launch in 21 European countries by the end of 2021

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Report: Most sports fans want to watch on streaming platforms only

A new report by Grabyo suggests that the pay-TV market will only have a 28 per cent customer share of global sports fans by...

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Netflix adds less than 200K European subs in Q2

Streamer's global subscriber base reaches 209 million

The State of OTT Revenue

Applicaster's new white paper aims to understand how brands are planning for growth in a world flooded with streaming services

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Varnish Software reaches new CDN performance milestones on VoD and live linear

In its latest tests, the company approached 400Gbps video CDN performance

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Simplestream powers GB News’ OTT service

GB News app is currently available on desktop, Android, and iOS

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Pixel Power integrates SRT into playout software

Company has also joined the SRT Alliance

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GatesAir debuts ‘industry-first’ outdoor transmitter series

Transmitter has been developed by the company's European-based engineering team and works with single-frequency network (SFN) configurations for DVB-T2, ISDB-Tb and other digital TV...

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Points of view: 5G and broadcast

BT Sport's Matt Stagg discusses the broadcast market's relationship with 5G and how much of an enabling impact the technology will have on our...

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BBC iPlayer trials watch together for The Glastonbury Experience

Trial is only available via the web version of BBC iPlayer, and follows the launch of BBC Together by the corporation's R&D team last...

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Report: 745 VoD services launched in UK, EU and US in four years

Report also found that the number of total AVoD users is significantly higher than SVoD users. In the UK and US

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Portugal’s MEO employs MediaKind to reduce latency for Euro 2020

MEO recently employed the solution to deliver low-latency coverage of the UEFA Champions League final at the end of May

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Telefonica Spain streams in the cloud with Harmonic

Harmonic provides VOS360 cloud streaming platform for disaster recovery

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Kopin Corporation creates ‘world’s first’ 35,000-nit HDR green OLED microdisplay

Microdisplay includes a unique patent-pending pixel structure and backplane architecture for super-high dynamic range operation (14 bits)

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Brexit leads to 250 broadcast licences migrating away from the UK

Half of the channels available in Europe outside their country of origin (as defined by the European regulations) fell under UK jurisdiction in 2018,...