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World Cup pushes global TV shipments to 221m in 2018

March 8, 2019 07.08 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The global TV market grew 2.9% in 2018, reaching 221 million units, due to a sales surge in the first half of the year as many consumers upgraded their TVs to watch the Football World Cup.

Filed Under: Newsline, Research Tagged With: football, IHS Markit, Paul Gray, World Cup Edited: March 8, 2019 07:08

World Cup boosts Russian pay-TV

August 10, 2018 09.09 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

Pay-TV operators in Russia signed up to one and half times more subscribers than usual during the World Cup earlier this summer.

Filed Under: Central & East Europe, Newsline Tagged With: Russia, World Cup Edited: August 10, 2018 09:09

BBC received 1.6m requests for Ultra HD sport

July 19, 2018 11.41 Europe/London By Julian Clover

The BBC has revealed it received over 1.6 million requests during its recent Ultra HD trials for the World Cup and Wimbledon.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: BBC Ultra HD, Wimbledon, World Cup Edited: July 19, 2018 11:41

FIFA takes action against beoutQ’s pirate World Cup

July 13, 2018 10.42 Europe/London By Julian Clover

With just two matches left, football’s governing body is preparing to take legal action against the Saudi pirate that has been illegally retransmitting the World Cup.

Filed Under: Channels, Editor's Choice, Newsline Tagged With: beoutQ, FIFA, FIFA World Cup 2018, World Cup Edited: July 16, 2018 10:40

Football World Cup drives Zattoo traffic in Germany

July 3, 2014 10.22 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

The FIFA Football World Cup 2014 has provided internet TV platform Zattoo with record OTT viewership figures in Germany.

Filed Under: Newsline, OTT, Streaming Tagged With: ARD, Germany, World Cup, Zattoo, ZDF Edited: July 3, 2014 12:16

ITV Player fails during World Cup opener

June 13, 2014 10.29 Europe/London By Julian Clover

Football fans have been angered after the ITV Player failed to cope with the volume of traffic during Thursday’s World Cup opener between Brazil and Croatia.

Filed Under: Channels, Editor's Choice Tagged With: ITV Player, World Cup Edited: June 15, 2014 06:19

England misses out on 3D World Cup

April 8, 2010 14.06 Europe/London By Julian Clover

England will not be a part of Sony’s 3D coverage of the World Cup unless the team progresses to the quarter-final stage – and even then seems unlikely to have a broadcaster to screen it.

Filed Under: 3D, Newsline Tagged With: Digital+, Sogecable, World Cup Edited: April 10, 2010 07:35

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