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Imagine adds automation to Aviator platform

The solution leverages a common controls system for playout, master control and live integration - regardless of location - driving operational efficiency by enabling...

Media Delivery

TalkTV axes linear channel, pivots to streaming

News UK revealed it plans to upgrade existing and build new studios as part of its pivot towards video content for online audiences

Media Consumption

Report: We’re still glued to our TVs as linear and VoD viewing increased globally in 2023

2023 also saw significant improvements in Quality of Experience globally with a decrease of 38 per cent in the buffering ratio, said NPAW's report

Media Consumption

UKTV unites free TV and digital portfolio under new brand name

According to the broadcaster, the launch of the new masterbrand supports its growth strategy by making it easier for users to navigate both online...

Media Management

Comcast Technology Solutions announces new cloud-based Managed Channel Origination service for Europe

The service enables broadcasters and streaming video providers to outsource and modernise the creation, management, and distribution of linear TV and OTT video channels...

Media Delivery

UKTV invests in linear with SES distribution expansion

Broadcaster will continue to work with the satellite company until the end of the 2020s

Media Consumption

Is streaming killing the video star?

A new report from Ampere Analysis reveals that almost half of internet users say they have switched off broadcast TV and watch more than...

Media Delivery

PwC: Brits to spend more on streaming than TV by 2025

The analysts' Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2023-2027 suggests SVoD (£4.2 billion) will overtake TV subscriptions (£4.1 billion) in terms of revenue by...

Media Consumption

Analysts: Broadcaster viewing to shrink to below half of total video viewing by 2028

Enders Analysis suggests streaming services will increase their share from 15 per cent to 23 per cent during the same period

Media Delivery

Interception: SSIMWAVE to compare video quality of broadcast and OTT during Super Bowl LVII

Using technology that replicates the human visual system, SSIMWAVE says it will check for video impairments, latency, and other issues that can impact the...

Media Management

Linear TV remains critical to broadcasters’ top lines

Alison Pavitt, director of sales and marketing at Pebble, writes that linear TV still has a place in the broadcast market, and remains a...

Media Delivery

Going over-the-top with OTT: The broadcasters’ Catch 22

Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO, Appear, queries whether broadcasters should go all in on the next generation, or maintain focus on their declining pool of...

Media Management

Virtual AI uses artificial intelligence to create schedules for linear and FAST channels

Op2mise from Virtual AI is an AI-driven technology that uses algorithms to take a data-driven approach to generating schedules that reflect a channel's characteristics

Media Delivery

Netflix to launch advertising in early 2023, co-CEO predicts death or linear in ‘next 5-10 years’

Globally, Netflix lost 970,00 subscribers during Q2 2022, but it is predicting it will add one million during Q3

Media Consumption

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...

Media Consumption

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,...

Media Consumption

The beginning of the end for traditional TV’s golden age: Deloitte releases 2022 predictions

Analysts predict traditional TV broadcasters’ share of viewing hours among UK consumers will fall to 49 per cent in 2023

Media Consumption

Ofcom approves BBC Three’s return to linear TV

BBC Three will return to linear TV in early February 2022, and will be available on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat

Media Consumption

Sky dumps One, takes it to the Max

Broadcaster to replace Sky One linear channel with two new brands

Live Production

How broadcasters can leverage the appetite for sports content

When TV providers show live, real time sports, they are encouraging connections and sparking passion; emotions of which every sports fan thrives on, writes...

Media Consumption

Sky, Channel 4 and ITV’s new advertising metric takes CFlight

New post-campaign online evaluation tool uses combined linear TV and broadcaster VoD (BVoD) data to show media buyers how popular their campaigns have been

Media Consumption

Is traditional TV advertising dead?

As AVoD and FAST services continue to rollout, traditional TV providers will need to provide a more holistic offering to keep advertisers on board,...

Business

Disney plans to close 100 international TV channels

CEO Bob Chapek said Disney doesn't want to be left behind in the move to viewing content online

Media Consumption

BBC Three to return as a linear channel

The BBC said it does not intend to take any further traditional TV channel capacity for its services, but reallocate distribution capacity from existing...