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3 days ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nik Roseveare
April 22, 2025 By Nik Roseveare WWE and Netflix have announced that Enter WWE: Unreal, a new reality series, is coming to the streaming platform this summer. For the first time ever, the series will allow fans to step into the WWE writer’s room and outside the ring with some of the biggest WWE Superstars, where the drama is often just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight. Viewers can witness how Paul ‘HHH’ Levesque and his team prepare and create its live spectacles.
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4 days ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nik Roseveare
April 21, 2025 By Nik Roseveare WWE, part of TKO Group, has acquired Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA – in partnership with Mexico-based sports and entertainment holding company, Fillip.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
advanced-television.com | Nik Roseveare
April 16, 2025 By Nik Roseveare Rakuten TV, the European streaming platforms, has announced a new agreement with Mattel, the toy manufacturing and entertainment company. This partnership will bring a lineup of Mattel’s iconic children’s content across Europe. The content will be available on Rakuten TV’s Family channel and will also be accessible on-demand as part of Rakuten TV’s library of free content.
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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.