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Since the rise of Netflix and subsequent other Subscription Video on Demand services (SVODs), European PSBs and media companies, in particular, have started to find ways to compete with the increasing dominance of American SVODs, and many old rivalries have been put aside in preference of collaboration by creating jointly controlled SVODs, such as BritBox, Salto (backed by French networks TF1 ...
BBC Director-General Tim Davie has revealed plans for a “digital first” BBC as the broadcaster celebrates its hundredth year as well as revealing at hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of ...
In February 2014 at the Oxford Media Conference, BBC Director-General Tony Hall stated that as part of the ongoing "Delivering Quality First" initiative at the corporation (which, as motivated by the government freeze of television license fee costs, aims to reach £700 million in cost-savings across the BBC up to the end of the 2016–17 television season), [7] [8] the BBC was in the process ...
In July 2021, Digital UK acquired Freesat the free-to-air satellite television platform from the BBC and ITV, and formally merged the company into Digital UK. [6] [7] In December 2021, Channel 5 joined the venture, marking it as "the first time that the venture has been wholly owned by all four PSBs". [8] Digital UK logo, used until 2023 rebrand
Since 2008, all BBC channels are available to watch online through the BBC iPlayer service. This online streaming ability came about following experiments with live streaming, involving streaming certain channels in the UK. [167] In February 2014, Director-General Tony Hall announced that the corporation needed to save £100 million.
The digital broadcasting technology adopted in the UK is the DVB-T system (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) carrying compressed digital audio, video and other data in a combined transport stream, using COFDM Tooltip Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulation. A total of eight national and one local 'multiplexes' are ...
BBC Select is a streaming service in North America launched in February 2021. [1] The service is owned by the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Studios, and features documentaries and factual programming previously shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and shows from other British broadcasters, such as Channel 4's Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip.
10 June – The BBC switches on its digital signal, doing so to coincide with the start of the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The technology will be showcased at a number of public venues over the Summer, before the launch of the BBC's first digital television channel, BBC Choice, in the Autumn. [6] 23 September