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Court documents reveal cost of joining Apple TV platform

By Julian Clover

Documents have been released showing the mindset of Apple as they prepared for broadcasters to join the Apple TV platform. … [Read More...]

Newsline

Tivo partners with Pindrop for voice authentication

January 27, 2021 By Julian Clover

Tivo is to work with fraud detection and voice authentication Pindrop to improve the content discovery experience through the spoken word. … [Read More...]

Portuguese regulators approve Media Capital sale

January 27, 2021 By Chris Dziadul

Portugal’s Competition Authority (AdC) has approved the take-over of a 69.78% stake in Media Capital by Mario Ferriera’s Pluris Investments. … [Read More...]

Akamai intelligence services integrated into Plume smart home bundle

Akamai has announced a new partnership with Plume that’s designed to accelerate the deployment of smart home services for broadband subscribers. … [Read More...]

Piracy: Most Germans unaware of hidden dangers

Two out of three people in Germany (64%) are unaware of the hidden dangers of piracy – fraud, identity theft and malware – or its links to criminal gangs, according to new research by intellectual property protection organisation FACT. … [Read More...]

Discovery and TIM launch discovery+ in Italy

Discovery’s new streaming service, discovery+, is to launch in the Italian market following an agreement between Discovery, Inc. and TIM. … [Read More...]

Anti-piracy memorandum extended in Russia

Representatives of copyright holders, video hosting owners and search engine operators in Russia have extended the Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of exclusive rights protection until August 1. … [Read More...]

Atmedia to work with M7 Group

Atmedia has started to cooperate with M7 Group, the operator of the Skylink satellite and internet TV platforms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. … [Read More...]

United Group/Telekom Srbija dispute involves Telenor

Telenor has dismissed reports that it will work with Telekom Srbija in order to undermine Serbia Broadband. … [Read More...]

CNN International joins Samsung TV Plus

CNN International is joining the line-up on Samsung TV Plus, the AVOD (Advertising-Video-on-Demand) service, in the UK and Germany. … [Read More...]

Salto reaches 200,000 subscribers

Salto, the streaming service backed by France’s leading broadcasters, has recorded 200,000 subscribers. … [Read More...]

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Central & East Europe

Changes at the top for Okko

The Russian OTT operator Okko has appointed Maxim Evdokimov as its general director and Oleg Manzha the head of Okko Sport. … [Read More...]

Plamen Yankov joins VIDI to drive business in Eastern Europe

German broadcast and telecommunications solutions provider VIDI has appointed Plamen Yankov as Business Development Director East Europe. … [Read More...]

Beltelecom upgrades IPTV service

The Belarusian incumbent Beltelecom has announced major changes to its IPTV platform Zala, which dates back to 2008 and currently has over 2 million subscribers. … [Read More...]

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Channels

Alchimie extends Samsung TV Plus partnership

The video platform provider Alchimie and Samsung’s TV Plus platform have extended their strategic partnership to provide 30+ themed VOD channels to millions of Samsung Smart TV viewers in Spain, France, UK and Italy. … [Read More...]

Eurochannel expands in Réunion

Eurochannel has expanded its presence in Réunion by launching on the high-speed internet and 4G+ mobile operator Zeop. … [Read More...]

Molotov and WarnerMedia continue cooperation

Molotov and WarnerMedia have extended their long-term distribution agreement that includes Toonami, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Boing, CNN and TCM Cinema services. … [Read More...]

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Editors’ Choice

Broadcasters join Facebook News UK launch

UK broadcasters and media organisations are participating in the launch of Facebook News. … [Read More...]

European content in TVOD: the stats and trends

European films and programmes get 31% of all promotion on TVOD services, according to the latest report by the European Audiovisual Observatory. … [Read More...]

Netflix ‘instant’ play goes global

Netflix is to deliver a new feature that instantly selects content a subscriber wants to watch. … [Read More...]

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BTN Virtual Interview

Video Interview: RDK’s Steve Heeb

In this video interview between Broadband TV News editor Julian Clover and Steve Heeb, President of RDK, viewers will hear the latest update about the RDK, and its community of more than 430 technology companies around the globe. … [Watch Now...]

Feature

Berk Uziyel

Q&A with Berk Uziyel, CEO at SPI International

Last year, SPI International acquired the Dutch premium movie channels and SVOD assets of Film1 from Sony. Robert Briel talks to SPI International CEO Berk Uziyel about the experiences with the acquisition. … [Read More...]

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White Paper

White Paper: An approach to implementing HbbTV on Android TV by Zattoo

By Broadband TV News Correspondent

HbbTV’s self stated goal is to “harmonize the broadcast, IPTV, and broadband delivery of entertainment to the end consumer through connected TVs and set-top boxes”.

Columns

Chris Dziadul Reports: CEE’s ownership merry-go-round

January 22, 2021 By Chris Dziadul

Central and Eastern Europe’s TV industry has seen major shifts in ownership in the last couple of years. … [Read More...]

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Last year, SPI International acquired the Dutch premium movie channels and SVOD assets of Film1 from Sony. Robert Briel talks to SPI International CEO Berk Uziyel about the experiences with the acquisition. … [Read More...]

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