Turner Broadcasting UK has begun offering shows from its Adult Swim animation channel on Facebook via the Social Cinema service launched by Facebook commerce agency Milyoni earlier this year. Shows inlcuding Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Metalocalypse, Superjail! and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! can be accessed via Milyoni’s Social Cinema technology, which […]
Scripps Networks International’s Food Network HD channel will be available as part of Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimédia’s line-up from October 10. Food Network will be available to all Zon HD pack digital subscribers, following a deal brokered by Food Network EMEA’s distribution partner Chello Zone. The channel is already carried on Portugal Telecom […]
An HD version of kids channel Nickelodeon has launched in Poland on Cyfrowy Polsat’s DTH platform. Subscribers to Polsat’s Family HD package can from today watch Viacom International Media Networks’ Nickelodeon HD, which broadcasts series including Super Ninja and Power Rangers. It is the sixth channel to launch in the Family HD package.
Satellite operator SES has struck a new long-term contract with UK broadcaster Channel 4 to provide additional capacity on its recently launched Astra 1N satellite. The new capacity will be used to transmit Channel 4’s main high-definition service together with further HD services over the coming years. Channel 4 already has three transponders under contract […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the standards organisation that represents over 100 UK TV companies, has approved HbbTV-based connected TV specifications in the latest version of the D-Book, its digital-terrestrial TV technology specifications. D-Book 7, which was published in draft earlier this year, defines the critical interoperable coexistence of broadcast and broadband services and devices […]
4oD, the on-demand platform operated by UK broadcaster Channel 4, attracted 31 million long-form views in August, up from 29 million a year earlier. The platform had a total of 273 million views of Channel 4 content in the year to the end-August, a 20.6% year-on-year increase. Viewers spent an average of 25.4 minutes watching […]
Fox International Channels (FIC) has signed a deal to provide the second series of its show The Walking Dead on advertising-supported internet video-on-demand in Russia immediately after the series premiers on the Fox Crime channel in the country on October 17. The Walking Dead will be shown on the tvigle.ru portal and partner networks free-of-charge […]
The BBC’s online TV platform iPlayer has launched in Australia on iPads. An iPlayer app is available to download from the iTunes store giving users access to over 1,000 hours of BBC content. A monthly subscription fee of AU$9.49 (€6.85) or AU$89.99 for a year will provide unlimited access to programmes segregated by genre, including […]
Former UKTV boss Matthew Littleford has been promoted to general manager, global BBC iPlayer after joining BBC Worldwide earlier this year. Littleford joined the commercial arm of the British public broadcaster in April 2011 as creative director for the commercial and international video-on-demand service, which launched in 11 western European countries in July and in […]
A new sports channel has become the first OTT-delivered channel on the UK’s Freeview platform. Sports Tonight Live, fronted by former TalkSport Radio presenter Mike Parry, claims to be the first UK channel to be available on the Freeview HD platform with content delivered exclusively via broadband to set-top boxes. The channel is using VisionIPTV’s […]
ICYMI: @FIFAcom streams Club World Cup to 50 territories via in-house platform FIFA+ digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/fif… https://t.co/7BrJQobrFk
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ICYMI: Mobile revenues boost Telenor performance as it executes ‘strategic roadmap’ digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/mob… https://t.co/OOrotB2r3c
02 February 2023 @ 21:00:01 UTC
ICYMI: Comcast’s @peacock scraps free tier for new subscribers digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/com… https://t.co/iZl8L5p2W4
02 February 2023 @ 20:00:05 UTC
US consumes 123% more data than Europe, says @plume digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/us-…
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.@SkyUK launches Entertainment OS 1.1 digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/sky… https://t.co/Sn0QejwabU
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