The US’s Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has confirmed the approval of the ATSC NRT (Non-Real-Time) Content Delivery standard, a backwards-compatible enhancement to digital TV broadcasting that provides a framework for new capability for feature-rich receivers, including ‘on demand’ broadcast TV channels, more detailed programme information for the delivery of a broad range of exciting […]
IDATE has published a report which proposes an international benchmark for DTT rollout and Analogue Switch-Off (ASO) practices and also presents guidelines for the ASO. It addresses the issues and prospects of the (Second) Digital Dividend and details business models for the overall process of transition to digital, including three country cases in the low- […]
Freeview, the UK’s free-to-air digital TV platform, has suggested that mobile operators should bear the cost of protecting viewers’ TV services. Noting that 2.3 million households are at risk of losing their digital TV signal from 4G interference, Freeview has called on the Government urgently to revise its 4G proposals on the levels of support […]
Italian DTH platform TivùSat has reached the figure of 1.4 million active smart cards, for a total of 4 million clients served. Launched less than three years ago by Italian broadcasters RAI, Mediaset and Telecom Italia Media, TivùSat aims to extend TV coverage to those areas of the country faced with technical problems in receiving […]
According to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR), Asia Pacific is undergoing a digital TV boom that will see penetration increase from 36 per cent in 2011 to 83 per cent in 2017 – or up by 440 million homes. The report – Digital TV Asia Pacific – forecasts that China alone will […]
In its final Delivering Quality report the BBC Trust has confirmed major cuts to Red Button services. It will cut the number of channels available on satellite and cable from nine to one, in line with DTT. The multscreen news service has already been cut. On IPTV and connected TV services the Trust merely says […]
According to the latest estimates by Eres from March 2012, the number of Italian DTT households (at least one receiver in the primary residence) rose to about 22.8 million. This figure represents an increase of just under 500,000 units compared to the survey in December 2011/January 2012, taking the DTT penetration rate to 91.5 per […]
Channel 4 group has reported a six-fold increase in losses at its main network to more than £40 million (€49m) in 2011, as ad revenues fell by almost 20 per cent. Group revenues rose 6.2 per cent year on year to £941 million in 2011, thanks to the TV ad sales contract Channel 4 has […]
Comms regulator Ofcom has invited applications for 21 local TV channels across the UK. This follows new duties given to the regulator by Parliament to license local TV. The local TV channels will broadcast on a specially-reserved ‘multiplex’; this is a discrete amount of spectrum used for broadcasting over digital terrestrial TV (DTT). In addition […]
Telecom Italia has officially confirmed the sale of Telecom Italia Media, its media and broadcasting unit in which it owns a 77 per cent stake. The Board of Directors has decided to begin the process for the disposal of the activities in the media sector, in view of the refocusing of the Group on the […]