In 2017, traditional French channels registered their worst audience shares in years, with the exception of PSB channels France 3, whose audience share remained stable at 9.1 per cent and France 5, which rose 0.2 points to 3.6 per cent. Though still dominating the annual ranking established by Médiamétrie, TF1 (20 per cent, -0.4 per […]
A new multi-million-pound fund to help increase the range of children’s television in the UK has been announced by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley. The £60 million (€67.5m) fund will be available for content creators to receive up to 50 per cent of the production and distribution costs of original TV shows. It will be available […]
For the first time ever, Italian state broadcaster RAI will not transmit the FIFA Football World Cup. Commercial rival Mediaset has won the exclusive rights to air the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia in Italy as well as in Spain. Mediaset has promised it will broadcast all 64 matches of the tournament, which takes […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has announced the launch of youth entertainment brand MTV on FTA in Germany. The 24-hour music and entertainment channel is available via satellite, cable networks, IPTV, Internet TV, live stream online and on the free MTV Play App for iOS and Android. “I’m proud to announce the launch of MTV […]
PBS America, the British TV channel from America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has launched on Freeview channel 94. The announcements marks Freeview’s 12th and final channel launch of 2017. Since launching in the UK, PBS America has carved out a niche in factual programming, including showcasing the American public service broadcaster’s multi-award-winning Nova, Frontline and […]
Dataxis research sheds light on the importance that DVB‐T2, the extension of the television standard DVB‐T, will acquire in the upcoming years. This system was devised to enable a better signal compression to broadcast digital television. It became the widespread standard of all recent DTT deployment and is currently being rolled out to replace DVB‐T […]
Representatives of European public service media and consumers have urged the European Parliament to reject the Proposal for a Regulation on Online Broadcasting during the plenary vote scheduled for December 12th, suggesting that they want to bring European audiovisual content closer to consumers in the EU. The European Broadcasting Organisation (EBU) and the Bureau Européen […]
Italian free-to-air DTH platform TivúSat has further expanded its offer with two new channels from Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN). The latest additions are VH-1, which airs music videos and classic TV series, while Spike is targetted at a male audience aged 25-54 years, broadcasting mainly entertainment programmes and reality shows. Before launching on TivúSat, […]
History will be made at Twickenham Stadium on December 30th when Harlequins v Northampton Saints will be the first Aviva Premiership Rugby match to be broadcast live on terrestrial TV. In a landmark moment for the sport the match will be simulcast on BT Sport and Channel 5, the first of five matches to be […]
As research firm IHS Markit and Cable Europe released a report suggesting that the European cable industry continued to show resiliency and steady growth in 2016, Mohammed Hamza, Senior Research Analyst for Kagan research has given a more sober assessment of the growth potential for the sector. Delivery an Industry Overview at the S&P Global […]