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Study: High potential for OTT in Taiwan

Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has released findings from its market study, Taiwan OTT Television Research Report 2018, in partnership with YouGov, an international data and analytics group, and Cleeng, the video eCommerce platform. Based on an online survey with 950 respondents, the study highlighted trends in video consumption, preferences towards cable […]

October 30, 2018

Insight TV‘s 4K content streams on Windows devices

Insight TV, the 4K broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced that its content is now available to stream on all Universal Windows Platform (UWP) devices. Insight TV has made its content available to Windows users by creating a Windows Store Application and optimised for the latest Intel Core processors. “We’re really excited […]

October 30, 2018

Grass Valley, Belden deliver Australia’s first live 4K broadcast

Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, and Gearhouse Broadcast partnered to deliver Australia’s first UHD live broadcast. All six hours of UHD content from the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 for supercars – the country’s annual, premier touring car event – were broadcast live without any advertising breaks. The 1,000-kilometre race was televised on Foxtel’s newly launched channel 444, with routing […]

October 30, 2018

DAB digital radio sales reach 71m worldwide

WorldDAB’s latest market report reveals that, by the end of Q2 2018, over 71 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers had been sold in Europe and Asia Pacific – up from 58 million in Q2 2017. The data published by WorldDAB draws on multiple sources to give a comprehensive overview of the latest statistics on DAB receiver […]

October 30, 2018

Viewing figures put Taskmaster in 7th Heaven

The current series of Taskmaster, Avalon’s award-winning and critically-acclaimed series on UKTV’s Dave, has eclipsed all previous series. The average Total Consumption per episode of series seven so far has reached 1.44 million, up 7 per cent on the last series, and this figure is set to rise once complete 28 day data has been […]

October 30, 2018By Colin Mann

Australia: ABC multi-platform success for Invictus Games

To date, ABC’s coverage of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 on the ABC main channel and ABC NEWS has reached 3.9 million people in Australia across the 5 Capital Cities, representing 23 per cent of the metro population. Michael Mason, Director- Regional and Local, said, “Australians have connected strongly with the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 […]

October 30, 2018

BBC Studios signs deal with Taiwan’s myVIDEO

BBC Studios has announced a content deal with myVideo that will give over 4.5 million Taiwanese viewers access to more than 200 hours of premium BBC dramas including the latest series of Luther and Doctor Who. myVideo is an OTT service owned by Taiwan Mobile, a leading telecommunications company in Taiwan offering quadplay services – […]

October 30, 2018

ESPN Player tips off NCAA Basketball season

ESPN Player will bring full coverage of the 2018/19 NCAA Basketball season to fans in EMEA. The live and on-demand sports streaming service will give subscribers the opportunity to watch more than 2,000 top college basketball games on computers, tablets and mobile devices. The app also allows fans to stream content to a big screen […]

October 30, 2018

WarnerMedia to close FilmStruck

WarnerMedia is to close FilmStruck, its Turner unit’s first direct-to-consumer product, initially launched in the US in October 2016. The SVoD service, developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, features a library of films comprised of an eclectic mix of contemporary and classic art house, indie, foreign and […]

October 29, 2018By Colin Mann & Chris Forrester

Synamedia opens for business

Synamedia, the renamed NDS division that was acquired by Cisco, is back in independent hands. Financed by global investment firm Permira, the buyout from Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, has completed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Synamedia’s portfolio of over 200 pay-TV and media customers includes AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, […]

October 29, 2018By Chris Forrester