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Italy joins Germany in IRIS2 alternate thoughts

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Chris Forrester

Germany has already made it known that it believes the EU-backed IRIS2 mega-constellation of super-secure satellites is too expensive. Now it seems that Italy is also having thoughts about its own satellite fleet. A report in German newspaper Handelsblatt suggests that the German army (Bundeswehr) is backing an alternate orbiting satellite system, and may not be at all keen on IRIS2.
Kaleidescape joins 8K Association

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Colin Mann

Movie platform specialist Kaleidescape has confirmed its membership of consumer and professional 8K ecosystem trade body the 8K Association (8KA), suggesting the move underscores its commitment to pushing the boundaries of home entertainment and ensuring its platform remains at the forefront of technological innovation.
AT&T plans satellite connectivity trials

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Colin Mann

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AST SpaceMobile, in coordination with AT&T, the ability to test direct-to-cellular connectivity on public safety’s Band 14 spectrum via its BlueBird satellites orbiting Earth. With this approval, it is envisioned that select first responders on FirstNet, Built with AT&T will trial public-safety-grade satellite communications later in 2025.
Data: Consumer media usage grew 2.4% in 2024

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Colin Mann

Global consumer media usage, including digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4 per cent in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023, according to a new market intelligence report from media econometrics specialist PQ Media. Growth in consumer media usage, including all digital and traditional media channels, was driven by federal elections in 15 of the top-20 markets, as well as the Summer Olympics in France.
Delyth Evans preferred S4C Chair candidate

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Colin Mann

April 16, 2025 By Colin Mann Delyth Evans is the Government’s preferred candidate for the S4C Chair, the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced. Evans started her career as a journalist at HTV Wales, working on the flagship current affairs programme Y Byd ar Bedwar for British Welsh-language free-to-air television channel S4C. She subsequently worked as a reporter on BBC Radio Four’s World at One and PM programmes.
Freely adds streamed channels

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Colin Mann

April 16, 2025 By Colin Mann Everyone TV – the organisation leading the evolution of free TV in the UK – has confirmed that a collection of new streamed channels are coming to Freely, the live and on demand streaming platform backed by the PSBs BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5. As audiences increasingly choose to stream live TV, Freely says that it is leading the way with an expanded offering of PSB premium streamed channels.
Kazakhstan to create museum at Yuri Gagarin launch site

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Chris Forrester

The Baikonur rocket and missile site in the middle of Kazakhstan is an area of some 90 kms in diameter which is leased to Russia until 2050. At its heart is the spaceport, and central to the spaceport’s modest visitors area is a small museum where the world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin lived ahead of his launch into orbit on a Vostok rocket on 12 April1961. The museum and its associated exterior special exhibits is to be created into a museum complex.
Kuiper launch delayed again

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Chris Forrester

April 16, 2025 By Chris Forrester The United Launch Alliance (ULA) already delayed launch from April 10th and again on April 14th of a batch of Amazon Project Kuiper broadband satellites has now further delayed lift-off until April 28th. Weather got in the way of the April 14th launch.
LG confirms LCD TV panel sell-off

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Chris Forrester

April 16, 2025 By Chris Forrester ]LG’s Display division says it has completed the sale of its last remaining LCD factory. China’s consumer electronic giant TCL Technology Group was the buyer. The sale marks the end of LCD TV panel manufacturing for the South Korean company. LG Display’s final LCD TV panel factory in Guangzhou, China, was sold to TCL CSOT for around 10.8 billion yuan (€1.29bn), according to an announcement from TCL. The deal was first announced in September 2024.
Multichoice, SABC carriage agreement stays in place

1 week ago | advanced-television.com | Chris Forrester

April 16, 2025 By Chris Forrester A carriage agreement between South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC and pay-TV operator MultiChoice struck in 2013 and which saw MultiChoice carry SABC’s channels on its system has emerged from a legal problem. South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on April 14th said it had dismissed an “exception application” brought by MultiChoice over a channel-supply agreement with the SABC, which it signed during the Jacob Zuma presidency 12 years ago.