Motors TV’s Founder, Jean-Luc Roy, has suggested that it will be ‘business-as-usual with benefits’ for the service’s audiences and suppliers following its acquisition by Motorsport Network. Motors TV has re-affirmed that its current operations will continue unchanged, but that the new ownership would provide significant opportunities for the company’s audiences and business partners alike. Roy […]
After a 2 per cent decline in worldwide TV shipments last year, 2016 is showing signs of a turnaround, with the market flattening out to end the year on 225 million units, achieving a value of $86 billion (€81.3bn) according to a report from Futuresource Consulting. “Although we’ve seen the overall global picture stabilise this […]
YouView has announced a re-engineering and redesigning of its entire platform to “respond quickly to the fast-changing needs and tastes of TV viewers, advertisers and partners”. The transformation is enabled by YouView’s move to the Cloud. Over the coming months a new streamlined and image-led interface, rendered in HTML 5, will rollout across the UK. […]
Dror Ginzberg, CEO and co-founder of short-form social video creation platform Wochit, has shared his five top predictions for digital video in 2017: Streaming video companies like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will look more and more like production studios or even OTT providers. This evolution is now both driven by and a driver of consumer […]
After consideration of the Commercial Requirements for ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Multicast presented to the 84th meeting of the DVB Steering Board (SB), the decision was made to commit the Technical Module to produce a specification. The scope of the work will pave the way to providing a harmonised solution to the problem of transmitting […]
SPI International / FilmBox Channels Group and UPC DTH have extended their collaboration in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to provide UPC Direct and freeSAT customers with a new application, FilmBox Live. This new online service will be part of the FilmBox Pack which is available on both platforms. FilmBox Live will be added […]
Video services provider Simplestream has been selected by A+E Networks UK to provide TV Everywhere distribution services for its new UK free-to-air channel Blaze. Blaze is a free-to-air channel that debuted in the UK and Ireland on 20 September 2016 on Freeview and Sky with programming that includes American Restoration, The First 48, Mountain Men, […]
OTT viewing experience specialist Conviva and research consultancy nScreenMedia have revealed the findings of what they say is an industry-first research study analysing how viewers’ online streaming habits are impacted by devices, content type, location, and viewing quality. The study – The Secret Life of Streamers: Devices, Content, Location, and Quality – is based on […]
Amazon has held talks with US sports leagues the NBA, MLB and NFL and others to stream live sports, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Amazon is said to have proposed a premium, exclusive sports package as part of its Amazon Prime subscription service. The online retail giant has also reportedly looked […]
The debut episode of the highly-anticipated new Amazon Original Series, The Grand Tour, has become the biggest show premiere ever on Amazon Prime Video, with millions of Prime members streaming the first episode in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Japan over the opening weekend. Viewership has even exceeded that of the previous number one […]