Rakuten TV now features Teletubbies, Caillou and Baby Shark TV on its Kids & Family free channel line-up. The latest additions join a number of other kids’ brands in Rakuten TV’s free channel offering include Cool School, Duck TV, Happy Kids, The Lego channel and Planeta Junior TV. Through a partnership with WildBrain, the platform […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Polish mobile operator Play have agreed a multi-year distribution deal that makes NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service broadly available to Play’s millions of post-paid subscribers. Viaplay offers viewers in Poland a unique combination of Viaplay Originals, international films and series, kids content and premium live sports such as Bundesliga […]
CPE provider Technicolor Connected Home has joined forces with LG U+ and HARMAN’s Embedded Audio group to develop and deploy a high-end, multi-service home entertainment platform that supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos delivered through a HARMAN Sound by JBL audio solution for the South Korean market. LG U+, one of Korea’s largest telecommunications providers […]
South Korea’s electronics giant LG Display says it will invest 3.3 Trillion Won (€2.3bn) in new facilities to produce more OLED panels. The investment will start immediately and continue through to March 2024. The news came from LG in a regulatory filing to the Seoul stock exchange. The company said the investment will be used […]
Redbox, the entertainment company, and Laugh Out Loud (LOL), the global multi-platform comedy brand founded by Kevin Hart, have announced a content deal to bring more than 100 hours of stand-up specials and television shows to Redbox’s free AVoD. These titles will be available through the Redbox streaming app via the LOL! Network, which is […]
LG Electronics has announced its highest quarterly revenues ever as the company continued to expand its market share for premium home appliances and consumer electronics outside of South Korea. Worldwide consolidated revenues of KRW 17.11 trillion (€12.8bn) rose 48.4 per cent from the second quarter a year ago. Second-quarter 2021 operating profit increased 65.5 per […]
Amazon Alexa will be coming to a wide range of third-party TVs powered by webOS, LG Electronics’ proprietary TV platform. TV brands such as Advance, Blaupunkt, Eko, JSW, Manta, Polaroid, RCA, Seiki and Skytech as well as original design manufacturers Ayonz, Dualshine, Konka, Silicon Player, Skyworth and Xianyou, among others, will soon be offering this […]
Android TV and Huawei’s HarmonyOS are set to dominate the coming years across both the shrinking footprint of operator set tops, and the ballooning number of smart TVs and connected TV (CTV) devices, according to forecasts from Rethink TV. Pay-TV households will decline
ITV is to launch Shoppable TV, allowing viewers to discover and purchase items from its programmes directly on screen. Viewers can initiate the shopping interface at any time by using their LG remote but must actively opt-in to receive the notifications and use the service. The service launches during hit dating series Love Island on […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has confirmed it will launch its Viaplay streaming service in Poland on August 3rd. Viaplay will offer Polish viewers a combination of premium live sports, Viaplay Originals, international movies and TV series, and kids content, and will be priced at PLN 34 (€7.55) per month. Following its roll-out in Poland, […]