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Content

Alchimie kicks off five-a-side channel

Accompanies launch of Socca World Cup coverage

Content

World’s first human rights TV channel launches in UK

IOHRTV aims "to put human rights into the front line of mainstream media”

Business

BBC plans biggest investment in Scotland for 20 years

BBC Scotland will begin broadcasting in autumn 2018

Production & Post

Golf Channel Thailand picks PlayBox for playout

Golf Channel Thailand has chosen channel branding and playout systems from PlayBox Technology as part of a major upgrade to its studios in Bangkok

Business

UKTV channels to land on Freesat

Broadcaster UKTV will launch three channels on Freesat, marking the next step in its platform growth strategy

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Jazz and Blues TV to go online with Piksel

Jazz and Blues TV has partnered with Piksel to launch the first digital music TV channel dedicated to jazz and blues

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Newstag and Euronews agree distribution deal

Newstag, a mobile first news video service based in Stockholm, has announced an agreement with the Euronews channel

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ITV Hub to go live next week

A promotional ad for ITV’s new online service has hit YouTube. The ITV Hub will become the new digital destination for all its TV...

Production & Post

Festival 4K marks IPTV 4K UHD channel in France

Playout service provider Basmedia, is launching a new HEVC UHD service using Ateme’s TITAN Live. The channel, Festival 4K, will launch in France

Business

Ziggo launches free sports channel

Dutch cable operator Ziggo will launch a new sports channel this month, featuring major events, a weekly talkshow and sports-related films and documentaries

Business

Vice announces aggressive move into TV in Europe

Digital youth brand Vice is planning an 'aggressive' move into TV, with a number of channel launches planned across Europe and the UK

Opinion

Return to OZ: streaming media and the new creative class

During the Golden Age of Hollywood from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, the ‘Big Five’ motion picture studios hired creative professionals under...

Business

French OTT offering signs major distribution deals

Molotov, created by Jean-David Blanc, founder of AlloCiné, and Pierre Lescure, founder of Canal+, has entered into OTT distribution agreements with a number of...

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NOS delivers UHD first in Portugal

ViBE VS7000 provides HEVC encoding for NOS' own exclusive 4K content and content from Hispasat 4K channel

Business

AwesomenessTV goes Beyond US with Endemol

Endemol Shine Group has entered a multi-year partnership deal with multi-platform media company AwesomenessTV to expand the teen brand’s international presence

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Digital to take majority share in UK consumer’s media time

The amount of time UK adults spend with digital devices and platforms continues to grow rapidly, with UK consumers spending an extra half hour...

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Harmonic and Intelsat partner for UHD demo channel

Intelsat's Galaxy 13 satellite to deliver 2160p60 video content enabled by Harmonic's Spectrum server and Electra X3

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ITV extends playout contract with Ericsson until 2024

Ericsson will continue to provide playout services for ITV’s portfolio of channels including ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITV HD, CITV and their associated regional...

Business

BBC Earth grows with new original commissions

BBC Worldwide today announced new programming for global factual brand BBC Earth, with two more series green lit for the global channel

Opinion

How will Project Dovetail transform the broadcast industry?

With BARB (Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board) announcing that they will be publishing their TV Player report this September, what particularly interests us at TVPlayer...

Business

Three hundred staff to go at MTG

Modern Times Group is to lay off 300 staff in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the UK as part of a restructuring programme

Business

BT Sport takes the Ashes

BT Sport has outbid Sky to become the home of the 2017/18 Australia vs England Ashes, and will show all Australian home cricket internationals...

Business

Eurosport acquires Rugby League package for Setanta Sports Asia

Eurosport has secured the exclusive TV and digital rights from Sky for a selection of Rugby League properties to be broadcast on Discovery’s recently...

Business

Endemol Shine UK takes controlling stake in Simon’s Cat

Endemol Shine UK has acquired a controlling share in animation company Simon’s Cat, founded in 2008 by illustrator, animator and director Simon Tofield

Business

Full UKTV offering now available on BT TV

A deal announced yesterday will allow BT customers to access all ten of UKTV’s channels for the first time

Business

PassionTV back on air via IPTV solution

Passion TV chooses Arqiva’s new Connected Broadcaster solution to go after the younger generation

Business

TVPlayer Plus boosts channel line-up

TVPlayer Plus will launch this month from TVPlayer, an OTT live streaming provider for broadcast TV channels. At the core of the live-streaming and...

Production & Post

PerceptionTV adds regionalisation capability to multiscreen platform

IPTV technology specialist PerceptionTV has added a regionalisation version of its multiscreen IPTV/OTT platform allowing content providers, TV start-ups and aggregators to personalise the...

Business

BT customers to witness ‘start of the zombie apocalypse’ with AMC launch

AMC will launch in the UK for the first time on 28 August exclusively to BT customers. The channel, from international TV network AMC...

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AlloCiné and Canal+ founders launch Molotov in France

AlloCiné and Canal+ founders JeanDavid Blanc and Pierre Lescure (pictured, left to right), have teamed up to create Molotov, a service for the distribution...

Analysis

TV Catchup – (nearly) the end of the road?

DLA Piper’s John Cloke (senior associate), Patrick Mitchell (legal director), and Jonathan Salt (trainee), assess the recent case brought by UK free-to-air broadcasters against...

Business

London Live announces new Live from London strand

London Live, the capital’s TV channel, is increasing its coverage of events across London with an official Live from London strand.

Business

Zee Network Europe celebrates 20 years with &TV launch

Zee Network Europe, the largest south Asian entertainment network celebrated the completion of 20 years of Zee TV in Europe this week with the...

Production & Post

Arkena selects BroadStream for playout expansion

Global media services business Arkena has appointed BroadStream Solutions to support the European growth of its playout business.

Business

Pixel Power: Dynamic Automated Graphics Generation

Dynamic Automated Graphics Generation, a white paper from Pixel Power is available now from NewBay Connect.

Production & Post

UTV Ireland looks to Deluxe

Deluxe has been tapped by UTV for content preparation for recently launched UTV Ireland channel.

Production & Post

Gearhouse re-enters the jungle

Gearhouse Broadcast has returned to the jungle for the seventh time to deliver technical and production facilities for ITV Studios’ I’m a Celebrity… Get...