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Andrew McDonald
Andrew is Contributing Editor at Digital TV Europe. Follow him on Twitter @andy_mc_donald
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T-Mobile buys Layer3 TV, plans ‘disruptive new TV service’ in 2018
T-Mobile in the US has acquired TV technology company Layer3 TV and has announced plans…
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Amazon Prime Video launches HDR10+ support
Amazon Prime Video has made its entire high dynamic range library available in HDR10+, establishing…
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UK government appoints new Ofcom chairman
The UK government has appointed former Channel 4 chairman, Terry Burns, as the new chairman…
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Ooyala Video Index: 58% of video plays occur on mobile
More than 58% of video plays globally occurred on mobile devices in the third quarter…
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Deloitte: TV viewing among 18-24s to decline by 5-15%
Traditional TV viewing among 18-24 year-olds will decline by 5% – 15% per year in…
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Dataxis: DVB-T2 to reach 72% of European homes by 2022
By 2022 some 72% of European households will receive digital terrestrial television (DTT) using the…
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Airties opens first R&D centre outside Europe
Wireless networking specialist Airties has opened a new research and development (R&D) centre in Austin,…
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Netflix ISP Index: Austria overtakes Belgium in EMEA rankings
Austria overtook Belgium to claim the fourth-fastest average internet speeds in the Europe, Middle East…
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eMarketer: UK programmatic ad spend to reach £3.39bn this year
Programmatic digital display ad spend in the UK will reach some £3.39 billion by the…
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Euskaltel taps Nagra for 4K Android STB content security
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has partnered with Nagra to secure content on its 2017-launched,…
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BBC launches Amazon Alexa voice service
The BBC has launched an Amazon Alexa skill for Echo devices – its first full…
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Ericsson: AR and VR ads to replace physical products
More than half of augmented and virtual reality users think that ads will become so…
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TF1 in talks to buy Axel Springer digital group Aufeminin
French broadcaster TF1 is in talks to buy Axel Springer’s 78.43% stake in Aufeminin –…
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Nokia replaces chief operating officer
Nokia’s chief operating officer (COO) Monika Maurer is leaving the company and will be replaced…
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Sweden’s TV4 to record ‘highest turnover ever’ in 2017
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 said it expects to record its “highest turnover ever” in 2017,…
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PlayStation VR reaches sales of two million
Sony has sold more than two million units of its PlayStation VR headset as of…
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Eurodata: Football accounts for 27% of sports programming
Football accounted for an average of 27% of all sports programming on generalist channels between…
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Ampere: Online advertising now almost twice as valuable as TV ads
Globally online advertising now generates almost twice as much money per-viewer, per-month than TV advertising,…
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Google media strategy chief apologises to advertisers
Google’s director of global media strategy and planning, David Benson, has apologised to advertisers for…
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Juniper: Amazon and Facebook to battle for sports rights
Amazon and Facebook will turn sports events into “the next content battleground” by bidding for…
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BT launches 360º sports highlights
BT is making 360º highlights and instant replays available from a range of sporting events…
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BBC to make Blue Planet II series available in UHD, HDR
The BBC is set to make all espisodes of David Attenborough’s latest series, Blue Planet II,…
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Poland’s Inea sold to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has agreed to sell its majority stake in Polish cable…
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YouTube staffs up to tackle inappropriate content
YouTube has announced plans to grow its ‘trust and safety teams’ to 10,000 people in…
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Ampere: Champions League the ‘most valued sports competition’
The UEFA Champions League is the sports competition that viewers are most willing to pay…
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IHS: number of EU cable homes reached 65.1m last year
The number of cable homes in Europe grew year-on-year in 2016 and accounted for 30.5%…
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Arris completes Ruckus acquisition
Arris has completed its US$800 million acquisition of Ruckus Wireless from Broadcom, along with the…
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GroupM: Global TV ad spend to grow this year and next
Global TV advertising investment will grow this year and next but will lose overall market…
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Orange makes OCast TV software open source
Orange has made its Chromecast-style OCast software available open source, in what it described as…
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Google: YouTube should not be regulated like a broadcaster
Google’s European president Matt Brittin has said it is “appropriate” that YouTube is not subject…