Digital TV News: Thomson

Reliance Jio introduces JioTele OS smart TV operating system
Feb 18, 2025 – Reliance Jio has introduced JioTele OS, a smart TV operating system designed for the Indian market. Smart TVs powered by the OS will be available from February 21, 2025.
News categories: Jio, Digital TV, India, Smart TV, TV OS

GatesAir supplies transmitters for ATSC 3.0 lab in Canada
Nov 2, 2023 – GatesAir UHF transmitters are supporting ATSC 3.0 research, testing, and deployment within the Broadcast-Broadband Convergence B²C Lab infrastructure at Humber College in Toronto.
News categories: GatesAir, Humber College, Orest Sushko, ATSC 3, Canada, Content Distribution, Digital TV

QYOU India expands QPlay+ distribution via partnership with Coolita
Oct 26, 2023 – QYOU Media (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) has announced an expansion of its Connected TV distribution for QPlay+ and its featured channels via a partnership with Coolita, a global smart TV+OS brand.
News categories: QYOU Media, Coolita, Curt Marvis, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Smart TV, Streaming, TV OS, Worldwide

India Smart TV shipments grew 28% in 2022
Apr 4, 2023 – India's smart TV shipments grew 28% YoY in 2022, according Counterpoint Research. For Q4 2022, the growth was almost flat at 2% YoY due to a slowdown in demand after the festive season.
News categories: Counterpoint, Akash Jatwala, Anshika Jain, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Synamedia brings cloud, streaming and distribution technologies to NAB 2023
Apr 6, 2023 – Synamedia has announced its NAB Show line-up of technologies that enable the distribution and delivery of streaming content across the spectrum of sports, from local clubs to global events.
News categories: Synamedia, Julien Signes, Broadcast, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

Foxtel reports subscriber highlights for quarter ending December 31, 2022
Feb 9, 2023 – News Corp has released subscriber highlights for the Foxtel Group. Total streaming subscribers reached 2.758 million (2.678 million paid), up 25% Y-o-Y. Foxtel residential broadcast subscribers declined to 1.401 million.
News categories: News Corp, Foxtel, Robert Thomson, Susan Panuccio, Australia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

Thomson Broadcast to acquire GatesAir
Apr 23, 2022 – GatesAir has announced that Thomson Broadcast has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GatesAir from an affiliate of The Gores Group. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022.
News categories: GatesAir, Thomson Broadcast, Bruce D. Swai, Ylias Akbaraly, Aby Alexander, Content Distribution, Digital TV, MandA, USA

Channel 5 joins Digital UK
Dec 20, 2021 – Channel 5 has joined Digital UK, alongside BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The four public service broadcasters have entered into a new Digital UK members' agreement, marking the first time that the venture has been wholly owned by all four PSBs.
News categories: Digital UK, ViacomCBS, Channel 5, Caroline Thomson, Sarah Rose, Digital TV, Terrestrial, UK

OTT subscriptions to overtake DTH in Australia and New Zealand by 2026
Oct 5, 2021 – According to Dataxis, OTT subscriptions in Australia and New Zealand will overtake DTH by 2026. DTH subscriptions will however still account for more than 40% and 66% of total subscriptions respectively in the two countries.
News categories: Dataxis, Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, New Zealand