Philip Hunter

The European Broadcast Union and Advanced Media Workflow Association will unveil the new Framework for Interoperability of Media Services in TV Production at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam next month.

Sustainability and green issues will feature prominently at the upcoming IBC conference.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) is urging its member countries to extend the current pan-cointinental rights regime for satellite and cable services to all forms of broadcast.

Alcatel-Lucent warns that restrictive regulations are causing Europe to fall behind North America and Asia-Pacific the emerging multiscreen era.

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance highlights recent growth in Europe.

The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) is depending on the European move toward hybrid home networks favoring coax for the backbone.

KPN has reached an agreement to acquire local cable operator Caiway.

The European Broadcast Union is calling on its members to get their heads out of the sand and start working towards common standards for emerging hybrid services.

Several European countries are deploying DTT single-frequency networks despite issues such as the need for cross-border coordination.

The Israeli over-the-top platform vendor argued at the ANGA Cable show in Germany that cable operators need to make their services available outside their footprint to boost customer loyalty.

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 decision by French pay TV operator Canal Plus to close its 3D channel reflects low interest in 3D across Europe, and lack of content.

Shane O’Neill, SVP and chief strategy officer at Europe’s largest broadband and pay TV operator Liberty Global, resigned from his posts Dec. 30, 2011.

UK communications regulator Ofcom will enforce EU guidelines for UK product placement starting March 1.

The EBU has built on its audio-over-IP standard to define interoperability requirements for intercom over IP.

Asia will overtake Europe as the leading IPTV continent within two years.

The EBU is warning Hungary that a new media law threatens broadcast freedom.

Increased UK viewing of live linear TV and associated adverts is giving a boost to commercial TV operators.

JPEG 2000 and the MPEG-4 10-bit profile have emerged as contending encoding technologies for European operators.

The BBC has cut online services but maintains investment in Canvas and iPlayer.

San Francisco private equity firm Vector Capital Corp. has emerged as a contender to buy a majority stake in French film and video production equipment maker Technicolor SA.

TiVo’s European business boosted the DVR specialist’s subscriber base by 524,000 to 2.5 million in the year ending April 30.