Philip Hunter

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) will provide a free platform for its members to deploy HbbTV services during the 2012 London Olympics and Eurovision Song Contest.

OTT is set to reach 83 million devices in Europe by 2015, according to a new report from Rethink TV.

The launch by Sky in the UK of an online TV service for non-existing customers heralds a new era of competition for OT T services in Europe following the arrival of Netflix.

The UK government is considering closing a loophole that lets people evade the licence fee by watching only in catch-up mode.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) has just published a study highlighting growing use of social media by public service broadcasters (PSBs) to halt a decline in news viewing by people under 45.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) recently aired its views on network neutrality, copyright, and other issues with European Commission president José Manuel Barroso.

Microwave technology vendor Bluwan is lobbying European regulators and operators to look at virgin 40 GHz spectrum to meet exploding demand for mobile backhaul fuelled by video.

The UK’s leading pay TV operator BSkyB has been forced by regulatory pressure to let arch rival Virgin Media distribute its movie catalogue.

European standards for connected TV are still fragmented, but outside the UK at least public broadcasters are rallying around HbbTV for hybrid services.

The French government has postponed plans to adopt the second generation DVB-T2 digital terrestrial technology until at least 2015 but other European countries are moving ahead now.

The French regulator CSA has put forward four key proposals for connected TV.

UK cable operator Virgin Media plans to bid for spectrum in 2012, so that it can set up femtocells for in-home distribution.

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s Ultraviolet digital locker is being launched in the UK this month but is meeting resistance from European pay TV operators.

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

The Hybrid Broadcast TV (HbbTV) standard continues to gain momentum in Europe as EBU (European Broadcast Union) members agree to collaborate around it.

IP brings many advantages over traditional ASI for satellite news gathering, but it also has challenges during migration like a demand for extra bandwidth while both IP and ASI run in parallel.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has condemned a call by the President of Republika Srpska for the national public broadcasting service of Bosnia-Herzegovina, BHRT, to be closed down.

Cryptography Research and Invia SAS of France will collaborate over measures to combat Differential Power Analysis

Netflix has been hoping its European entry will make up for its loss of 800,000 US customers, but is meeting resistance from entrenched broadcasters.

Growth in use of Apps both on smart TVs and other devices in Europe has exceeded expectations during 2011.

Pan European multilingual news channel Euronews has appointed a new chair and CEO for its advisory board.

The departure of CEO Neil Gaydon from PACE, the world’s leading set top maker, followed a year of profit warnings triggered by two natural disasters, the Japanese Tsunami and Thailand floods.

The UK’s biggest pay-TV operator hopes call for probe will deflect attention from its own dominant position.