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Roku has passed 100 million streaming households worldwide, a key milestone for the streaming platform and devices company.

At the RTS Ireland Awards 2026, RTÉ won 11 awards – Scripted, Entertainment, Factual Series, Live Sport Coverage, News Broadcaster of The Year, Children’s Programming, Specialist Factual, Factual Entertainment, Current Affairs / Cúrsaí Reatha, Sports Documentary, and Short Film.

In the lead-up to NAB 2026, Blackmagic Design has revealed a slate of new production technologies.

Avid and Google Cloud have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to embed Google’s Gemini models and Vertex AI directly into Avid’s solutions.

After almost nine years leading the broadcaster’s content strategy, Ian Katz, Chief Content Officer at Channel 4, will step down from his role in October 2026.

In an internal, all-staff call held today, Rhodri Talfan Davies, Interim Director General for the BBC, revealed that the organisation is planning to cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs.

AJA Video Systems has agreed to acquire Comprimato, a live video encoding and processing software provider for virtualised and cloud productions and broadcasts.

Thomas Riedel, Founder and Owner of Riedel Communications and the Riedel Group, has acquired Arri, the Munich-based premium manufacturer of camera and lighting technology for motion picture and live entertainment.

Blackmagic Design has unveiled its new URSA Cine Immersive 100G camera, billed as the world’s first immersive cinema camera designed for live production with Apple Immersive Video.

LaLiga is collaborating with San Francisco-based edge cloud platform provider Fastly to develop technical solutions to address illegal streaming of live sports, with a special focus on the Spanish league’s football matches.