Philip Hunter

Terrestrial broadcasting will only be replaced by a wireless broadband system if and when people can get universal access to free content by other means, according to the EBU.

YouTube has announced plans to stream live Olympic Games coverage to users in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The UK pay-TV operator is developing a new EPG integrating linear and on demand content.

The European Commission says that broadcasters will have to hand over another 200MHz of spectrum to mobile broadband.

The DVB’s version of digital terrestrial used in Europe is gaining ground in Asia Pacific following adoption in Singapore.

The EBU has secured European Union funding to promote media freedom among countries queuing up to join the EU.

French broadcast infrastructure and services company GlobeCast announced at NAB the July 1 launch for the Americas of its OTT service MyGlobeTV.

OTT needs standards like never before to deliver the promised service diversity and flexibility.

HbbTV has been added to the NorDig specification covering the Nordic countries for IRDs (Integrated Receiver and Decoder), now known as hybridIRDs.

The Union played the lead role in founding FOBTV.

A report by Research and Markets highlights the intense competition in one of Europe’s most affluent digital media markets.

Cisco’s European CTO for video technology argues that over-the-top service providers need to integrate unicast and multicast delivery to support large numbers of users.

Shortage of studio space combined with plenty of cheap fiber will encourage broadcasters to edit remotely via bandwidth networks at the London Olympics next year.

The HomeGrid Forum claims to have made a breakthrough in data and video transmission.

How to monetize multiplatform services is one of the big issues at London’s IPTV World Forum this week.

The European Broadcast Union and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe met in Vienna to plan joint activities on media independence.

The European Broadcasting Union agrees with the Amaury Sport Organization that major cycling events will be shown on free-to-air analog channels until at least 2015.

The Norwegian Web-browser vendor Opera Software will demonstrate TVs and set-top boxes enabled with HTML5 and HbbTV at IPTV World Forum in London, March 22-23.

Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards argues that there should be a radical single frequency network re-plan of Digital Terrestrial Television across Europe.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Media department is being staffed up for its mission to help broadcasters deliver high quality content across all platforms.

The UK’s hybrid TV platform YouView is now expected to be launched mid 2012 following a string of technical delays.

The decision by BBC journalist Andrew Marr to lift an injunction against reporting of his extramarital affair has highlighted concerns across Europe that privacy has prevailed over media freedom.