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1 week ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
Ericsson has reported that organic sales were stable in Q1, with strong growth in market area Americas offset by declines in other market areas. Reported sales were SEK 55 billion (€4.97bn). Net income was SEK 4.2 billion, and free cash flow before M&A stood at SEK 2.7 billion. Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, commented: “We sustained solid momentum in Q1, despite a challenging and fast changing macro backdrop, and our results highlight our competitiveness.
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3 weeks ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
A federal judge in New York has thwarted the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the US international broadcaster Voice of America (VoA), calling the move a “classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making.”Judge James Paul Oetken blocked the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs Voice of America, from axing some 1,300 staff that it sidelined in mid-March in the wake of President Donald Trump ordering its funding slashed.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
Fixed communication services revenue in Japan is forevcast to grow marginally from $25.4 billion (€23.3bn) in 2024 to $26.6 billion in 2029, maintaining a sluggish CAGR of 0.9 per cent. The decline in fixed voice services will continue, while broadband growth remains moderate, driven by increasing fibre adoption but offset by falling cable and xDSL subscriptions, according to GlobalData, the data and analytics company.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
The latest findings from What’s the Score?, Hub’s sports study tracking the evolution of sports fan and media, reveal that US audiences are becoming comfortable watching sports on streaming platforms – just as they did with scripted TV, only much more quickly. Highlights from Wave 3 of the study include:Sports fans are just as likely to watch live games on streaming platforms as they are on broadcast or cable networks.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
SpaceX enjoyed partial success for its Starship test #8 on the evening of March 6th. The rocket’s booster (first) stage performed flawlessly and enjoyed a perfect return to Earth and being captured by the sites ‘chopsticks’. However, the upper stage Starship exploded mid-flight. The SpaceX mishap halted some flights from Florida’s busiest airports for “falling space debris”.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
Media Distillery, the AI technology provider in video user experience (UX) optimisation, has announced the launch of a new suite of capabilities focused on accelerating the time it takes a viewer a discover appealing content. The new Search and Discovery Suite enables viewers to find desirable content faster by leveraging the power of AI. The system’s deep insight enables it to surface results that are better, both in terms of quantity and relevance.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
A United States Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been in discussion for some time. However, recent comments suggest that it is now almost a certainty. It is discussed in the article below. On Sunday 2nd of March renewed interest was sparked regarding a Bitcoin reserve by the US administration. It was announced a new plan will include Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Ada, in a post on Truth Social. This sent the price of all related coins soaring.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
Everything is all about AI. Even a lot of TV and film dramas feature it somewhere in the plot. But they will be in trouble if they have actually used it in production; see the fall from grace of The Brutalist, the Oscar favourite until it was found to have used an AI app to tune the Hungarian accents of its American lead. A perfectly good indie action-comedy picked up record numbers of Oscars instead. It’s an ill wind.
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1 month ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
Everything is all about AI. Even a lot of TV and film dramas feature it somewhere in the plot. But they will be in trouble if they have actually used it in production; see the fall from grace of The Brutalist, the Oscar favourite until it was found to have used an AI app to tune the Hungarian accents of its American lead. A perfectly good indie action-comedy picked up record numbers of Oscars instead. It’s an ill wind.
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2 months ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nick Snow
BBC Studios has extended the reach of its channel brands across CEE with new launches in the Czech Republic and Romania. BBC-branded channels, BBC Earth and BBC First, are now available to the customers of Vodafone in Czech Republic, whilst BBC First has joined Orange Romania. In Czech Republic, the partnership between BBC Studios and Vodafone Czech Republic means that BBC Earth is now included in the Vodafone TV package, and BBC First included in the extended Family & All in One packages.
