Digital TV News: ITU

Comcast releases research on how viewers discover new TV content
May 1, 2024 – Comcast Advertising has released a report analyzing trends in how consumers navigate and discover TV content across traditional and streaming in the U.S. and Europe.
News categories: Comcast Advertising, Travis Flood, Marcien Jencke, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research, USA, UX

SES to acquire Intelsat
Apr 30, 2024 – SES is to acquire Intelsat through the purchase of 100% of the equity of Intelsat Holdings for a cash consideration of $3.1 billion (€2.8 billion) and certain contingent value rights.
News categories: SES S.A., Intelsat, Adel Al-Saleh, David Wajsgras, Content Distribution, Digital TV, MandA, Satellite, Worldwide

AA/WARC reports UK 2023 ad spend at £36.6bn
Apr 25, 2024 – The latest AA/WARC dataset expects the UK advertising market to grow 5.8% to reach nearly £39bn in 2024. Broadcast media, most notably TV (+2.6%) and radio (+2.3%) are expected to return to growth.
News categories: WARC, Advertising Association, James McDonald, Stephen Woodford, Advertising, Digital TV, Market Research, UK

SeaChange to instead be acquired by Enghouse
Apr 24, 2024 – SeaChange (OTC: SEAC) has entered into an asset purchase agreement under which an affiliate of Enghouse Systems will acquire substantially all of SeaChange's assets related to its product and services business.
News categories: SeaChange, Enghouse, Partner One, Chris Klimmer, Canada, Content Distribution, Digital TV, MandA, Software, Worldwide

MagentaTV strengthens addressable TV business with Equativ
Apr 23, 2024 – Deutsche Telekom has unveiled that it will use Equativ's ad serving and server-side ad insertion technology to advance programmatic, ad server-based TV advertising in Germany.
News categories: Equativ, Deutsche Telekom, Arnaud Créput, Dr. Jörg Richartz, Jean-Baptiste Salvin, Alexander Helmke, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV

Dialog, Axiata Group, Bharti Airtel agree on merger in Sri Lanka
Apr 18, 2024 – Dialog Axiata, Axiata Group and Bharti Airtel have agreed to combine operations in Sri Lanka with Dialog acquiring 100% of Airtel Lanka for which Bharti Airtel will receive a 10.355% share of Dialog.
News categories: Dialog Axiata, Axiata, Bharti Airtel, Supun Weerasinghe, Vivek Sood, Dr Hans Wijayasuriya, Gopal Vittal, Ashish Chandra, Digital TV, MandA, Sri Lanka

TV3 migrates from on-prem servers to AWS Cloud with Redge
Apr 18, 2024 – Redge Technologies partnered with TV3 to migrate its infrastructure from on-premises servers situated in Riga to AWS, following the guidelines of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).
News categories: Redge, TV3, Baltics, Content Distribution, Digital TV

WISI Communications initiates restructuring in self-administration
Apr 15, 2024 – The Pforzheim Local Court has granted WISI Communications's application to initiate a debtor-in-possession restructuring. The reorganisation was needed due to a drastic slump in incoming orders.
News categories: WISI, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Finance, Germany, Worldwide

Eutelsat distributes LGCC TV channel to Europe and MENA via satellite
Apr 16, 2024 – Eutelsat (Paris/London: ETL) has announced a partnership with La Gran Carpa Catedral (LGCC) to provide satellite distribution for its the LGCC TV channel across the MENA region and Europe.
News categories: Eutelsat, La Gran Carpa Catedral, Guillermo Haller Sánchez, Julio Angel Cruz, Digital TV, Europe, Middle-East, Satellite