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Amazon and BBC break BT Sports’ exclusive hold over Champions League
BT Sport has lost its exclusive hold over coverage of the UEFA Champions League, with streaming service Amazon securing 17 games and the BBC airing highlights for the first time.
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Fremantle launches Jamie Oliver FAST channel
Fremantle and Jamie Oliver have launched a FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television) channel dedicated to the chef’s cooking shows, The Jamie Oliver Channel.
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EBU re-elects president and vice-president, confirms Noel Curran as DG
Delphine Ernotte-Cunci and Petr Dvořák have been re-elected to serve a second two-year mandate as president and vice-president of the executive board at the European Broadcasting Union, while UA:PBC’s Mykola Chernotytskyi and BR’s Dr Katja Wildermuth have taken up vacant positions on the board.
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DNEG and Sports Ventures call off SPAC deal
Visual effects and animation firm DNEG has called off plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Sports Ventures Acquisition Corp.
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AVOD platforms grow faster than SVODs in the US
Ad-supported streaming services (AVOD) are seeing adoption at a faster rate than subscription-based services (SVOD) in the United States, according to newly published research.
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Industry Trends
Evolving CDN strategies to satisfy the “content consumption boom”
Increased investment in content delivery, including multi-CDNs and open caching, remains among the most noticeable of all broadcast industry trends.
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BBC to close BBC Four and CBBC and cut 1,000 jobs
The BBC is to stop broadcasting linear channels BBC Four and CBBC and cut 1,000 jobs to save money following the UK government’s decision to freeze the licence for two years.
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US hits three streamer subscriptions per household
The number of streaming services subscriptions per household in the US jumped from 2.1 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2021, according to a survey by consultancy firm Altman Solon.
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Denmark hits streamers with production levy
Denmark has become the latest European country to rule that global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney must pay a levy to support local production.
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Five billion people to watch 2022 World Cup
Five billion people around the world are expected to watch the 2022 World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said this week.
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Daily News
An appy future
Content Everywhere exhibitors provide some of their thoughts on what the current trends are in the TV apps and content market — and how content providers should set themselves apart in order to retain audience engagement.
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Video
IBC Digital 2021: Transitioning to TV as an App
In this session from IBC Digital 2021, we delved into what broadcasters and video service providers need to consider to compete in the ’TV as an App’ market. This video is now available to watch here on-demand.
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IBC Digital 2021: Restructuring Business Models for VOD, AVOD and SVOD service providers with data
During this IBC Digital 2021 session, now available here on-demand, we invite you to discover:
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IBC Digital 2021: The Business Case for Workflow Automation and Integration
This panel session from IBC Digital 2021 is now available here on-demand. Join us to discover:
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IBC Digital 2021 Workflow Tour: Content Distribution
During IBC Digital 2021, we invited you to join some of the industry’s key technology users and suppliers for a tour focusing on streaming, video-on-demand, and the challenges of delivering a great direct-to-consumer experience. This Workflow tour is now available to watch here on-demand.
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Registration open for IBC2022 live in-person event
IBC2022 registration is now open as the show returns for its first physical event in two years, bringing together the media technology industry once again at the RAI Amsterdam.
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Italian police block Russian hackers during Eurovision
Italian police have thwarted pro-Russian hackers attempts to disrupt voting for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Video
IBC Digital 2021 Trends: Content Supply Chain
In this IBC Digital 2021 panel session, you’ll hear about how cloud is playing a role in the end-to-end content supply chain from scheduling processes and operational rights, to MAM and storage.
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IBC Digital 2021: 5G, Delivering on the promise
Scratch below ”5G is faster” and you’ll uncover a technically sophisticated framework with detailed architectural solutions designed to support many new use cases and business models.
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IBC Digital 2021: Advances in Video Coding
In this session we showcase significant coding gains arising from both traditional and Artificial Intelligence based techniques. Quantisation is at the heart of compression and in this masterclass paper, you will learn how practical advances in rate-distortion optimisation continue to drive encoder gains, across codecs.