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NZ: Freeview new On Demand platform

New Zealand digital terrestrial TV service Freeview has commenced roll-out of a new On Demand TV Platform to replace the existing FreeviewPlus service. Implemented in collaboration with leading New Zealand broadcasters (TVNZ, MediaWorks, Māori Television and RNZ), the new platform supersedes the broadcasters’ own TVNZ OnDemand, ThreeNow and Māori Television On Demand apps previously linked […]

July 4, 2018

Australia: Addressable boost for TV ad industry

Addressable TV is set to shake up the TV advertising industry significantly over the next few years as commercial TV channels gain the ability to target advertising at finely segmented audiences. Extensive demographic data from Roy Morgan Research covering the attitudes Australians have towards advertising shows that contemporary Australians are largely sceptical of advertising, with […]

July 4, 2018

Movistar Plus: 10m viewers a day

Telefónica’s pay-TV platform currently has over 10 million viewers a day, according to the company’s data pulled from its STBs which are present in almost 4 million homes. The average TV consumption on the platform is just over 200 minutes a day, with 20 per cent of this time dedicated to watching catch-up TV content. […]

July 3, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

World Cup viewing boost for BBC

The group stage of the 2018 Football World Cup has produced some of the largest viewing figures – TV and online – in the last 10 years for the BBC. Millions across the country have tuned in to see England’s last-minute winner against Tunisia, the six-goal demolition of Panama, Ronaldo’s spectacular hat-trick against Spain, Germany’s […]

July 2, 2018

Irdeto: Brazil matches ‘most-pirated’

Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has detected 5,088 unique illegal streams redistributing games over the Internet during the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. The bookies’ favourites, Brazil won the unwanted moniker of most-pirated team, with more than 582 illegal streams detected for its three group stage matches. Brazil was followed by Morocco (561 […]

July 2, 2018By Colin Mann

DISH: Univision retrans impasse

DISH, operator of DishLATINO and Sling TV, has confirmed that negotiations with Univision Communications have reached an apparent impasse following what it describes as “untenable” demands by the programmer and by Univision’s abrupt departure from the negotiating table. As a result, certain services went ‘dark’ on June 30th Suggesting that Univision is asking more for […]

July 2, 2018

Halton to step down as YouView CEO

UK hybrid digital television platform YouView has confirmed that Richard Halton will stand down as CEO at the end of 2018. Having led YouView from launch to being in three million homes, Halton has decided this is the right moment to pursue new leadership opportunities. “YouView is now a world-class technology platform which blends the […]

June 26, 2018

Viewers’ advocate warns of PSB spectrum threat

Colin Browne, Chairman of Voice of the Listener and Viewer, a British consumer group which champions public service broadcasting, has warned that the forthcoming World Radiocommunication Conference poses a threat to the future of public service broadcasters should spectrum currently used for terrestrial broadcasting be allocated to services such as mobile, calling on government and […]

June 22, 2018By Colin Mann

North to step down as Freeview MD

Guy North has announced he is to step down as Managing Director of UK digital terrestrial free-to-air platform Freeview in October. He was appointed MD in June 2014, having joined as Marketing & Communications Director three years earlier. He spearheaded the launch of Freeview Play in 2015, which was accompanied by a full brand relaunch […]

June 21, 2018

The “nuclear option” of streaming reality: Ask Australia’s Optus

The BBC told a London conference June 19th that OTT transmissions were the way forward, and certainly for its few and far between Ultra HD broadcasts. The BBC is making available UHD signals via its iPlayer service of the current FIFA World Cup football matches, but declined to give any idea as to the numbers […]

June 20, 2018