The ad-supported digital TV breakdown: FASTS (Free ad-supported streaming services): These apps are the fastest growing category of digital TV consumption.
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Apple's TV app — Tim Cook's attempt to create a digital TV guide, after giving up, for now, on a digital TV service — is going live today.
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As the African continent continues to migrate to digital TV, StarTimes' subscriber base is predicted to jump to 14.85 million by 2024, according to Digital TV Research — putting it ahead of MultiChoice.
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Go deeper: Inflation nation: The rising cost of digital TV
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Nor the Spanish digital TV networks that had receiver issues.
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A digital TV guide could have obvious upside for consumers.
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A digital TV guide could have obvious upsides for consumers.
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But this hasn't happened in the digital TV landscape quite yet.
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Go deeper: Free apps are driving adoption of digital TV ads
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AT&T's foray into digital TV is running into a snag.
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And I started buying advertising, digital, TV," Parscale told "60 Minutes.
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Also, thanks to digital TV, almost none of this stuff matters anymore.
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In 20163, Pang landed the company's first digital TV license in Rwanda.
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Why it matters: These free, ad-supported apps have become hot acquisition targets for TV companies that want to sell digital TV ads, but don't have the digital TV audiences, and therefore digital ad inventory, to do so.
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On Friday, digital TV listing company Rovi bought TiVo for a total of $1.1 billion.
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YouTube TV and Hulu TV are moving in this direction on the digital TV side.
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That gave StarTimes another revenue stream — building and operating the digital TV infrastructure of nations.
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That content will be part of a new digital TV strategy, CNBC reported in October.
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Today VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 22017 different languages around the globe.
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Digital TV streaming has exploded as more households ditch expensive cable packages for cheaper streaming packages.
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The money will go into digital, TV and radio ads, canvassing, and mailers, according to CBS.
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That is: It lets them sell some of their digital TV ads to some buyers, using software.
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Digital TV antennas let consumers pick up local over-the-air channels, like ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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The AT-215B Outdoor/Indoor Digital TV Antenna is completely digital and capable of feeding multiple TVs.
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Now, new numbers from the firm Digital TV Research show just who will be winning that fight.
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Before digital TV, NTSC constructed images using 483 scan lines, which have now been replaced by pixels.
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These include digital TV, the M-Kopa solar-powered lighting kit, and Lipa-Na bill pay service.
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And I loved the idea of being able to place a digital TV screen anywhere I wanted.
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"Cross-platform" means measurement of an ad campaign across various types of media — like digital, TV, mobile, etc.
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Many digital TV companies believe closed-captioning should be considered as a part of the audio auditing process.
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The move follows a trend of other telecom companies taking steps to move into the digital TV space.
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Content, connectivity, and cost will be core factors for Netflix and other digital TV providers in African VOD.
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Toss in its digital TV replacement YouTube TV and things get even more confusing for the everyday consumer.
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There are more than a billion paying digital TV subscribers nationwide, according to market research firm IHS Markit.
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The digital TV recording company TiVo is back in the spotlight with some upcoming changes and new products.
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AT-413B Smart Pass Amplifier This product lets you receive digital TV signals over-the-air through an antenna.
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More from Axios: New streamers battle over old shows ... The rising cost of digital TV ... Streaming choices overwhelm consumers
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This means consumers will either buy some sort of a digitized Pay-TV package that's a little cheaper than current standards, or a digital TV package that has the breadth of choices that consumers get from pay TV. YouTube TV and Hulu TV are moving in this direction on the digital TV side.
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Photo: AP Do you remember the big changeover to digital TV a few years ago that made traditional antennas obsolete?
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Eric Bueneman, one blogger and DXer, has embraced the results with digital TV, even if it requires some extra work.
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Sales of digital-TV antennae, used to receive broadcast networks without a cable subscription, have surged to 7.4m last year.
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The Charlie Brooker series fittingly migrated from Channel 4 to Netflix's digital TV service, where it gained an American following.
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The money it makes on digital services, like digital TV software and advertising, is now 55% of Roku's total revenue.
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More than a third of its digital TV-related sales are already in the Americas, according to its annual report.
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The figures do not include people who subscribe through digital TV services and other new distributors, the sports network said.
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Today, StarTimes has some of the world's most affordable digital TV packages, which can cost as little as $4 a month.
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The shift creates new revenue streams for Roku that can be scaled very quickly, including software licensing and digital TV advertising.
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These stations could still transmit programs to viewers, sharing other digital TV stations, as well as cable, satellite, and broadband facilities.
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A new report from Digital TV Research indicates that the streaming service will have some 82 million subscribers worldwide by 2024.
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And Apple plans to give original content for free to Apple device owners as part of its new digital TV strategy.
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Apple's latest attempt to crack digital TV arrived Monday in the form of a name change most consumers might not even notice.
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Both companies focus on the future of content distribution — Cheddar through live digital TV and Magic Leap through augmented and virtual reality.
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Digital TV ad buying, or "audience-based" ad buying, is still a very small portion of overall TV ad-buying, roughly 10%.
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Go deeper: Inflation nation: The rising cost of digital TV On life support: Record number of pay-TV watchers cut the cord
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The top things those who grew up rich admit to spending too much money on now: cable or digital TV and food.
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In 2016, for instance, when Apple launched a new "TV" app, designed to be a digital TV guide, Netflix never signed on.
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Sling, Sony and AT&T/DirecTV have already launched digital TV subscription services in the U.S., and next year Hulu will join them.
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Go deeper: The battle for the future of TV Inflation nation: The rising cost of digital TV TV advertising is slowly going digital
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Why it matters: It's a cost effective way for Cheddar to scale its digital TV business at the local, national and global levels.
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And he led the launch strategy for DirecTV Now, now AT&T TV Now, which was the company's last major digital-TV initiative.
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The company is focusing on figuring out where customers might see its content, whether that's on traditional TV or "digital TV," she said.
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But, despite some threats from networks to cut Nielsen, most of them still use Nielsen ratings for both live TV and digital TV measurement.
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It also meant that CA ended up taking over every aspect of the Trump campaign from data analytics, research, digital, TV and handling donations.
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From a more practical standpoint, the changeover meant that customers had to switch over to digital TV tuners that could receive the new format.
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The big picture: Unified ad offerings will become more important as these groups expand their ad tech capabilities even wider into digital TV ads.
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In fact, in just the first quarter of his campaign, Bloomberg dropped $188 million, $140 million of which was spent on digital/TV ads.
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Go deeper: Video streaming growth in U.S. stunted by increasingly crowded market The magic streaming budget number: $38 The rising cost of digital TV
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Yes, but: Digital TV ad buying, or "audience-based" ad buying, while growing, is still a very small portion of overall TV ad-buying.
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In total, NBCU says that digital (mobile, desktop, tablet) and advanced (digital TV) advertising now accounts for more than $1 billion annually in advertiser spend.
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But Google and Facebook haven't really penetrated the digital TV ad market yet, so now everyone else is racing to get a piece of it.
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There's also a built-in digital TV tuner tucked in there so you can access popular network TV shows in HD without needing extra cords.
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Whether or not there's been a good Sonic game since the advent of digital TV, well, I'll leave that to the comments section to decide.
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"Even if there is a TV, they can only watch two or three channels, digital TV is beyond their imagination," he said back in 2002.
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Condé Nast, which has built up a sizable content licensing business through Condé Nast Entertainment, will benefit from Lynch's experience in digital TV rights negotiations.
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Hulu, the digital TV service, will get $580 million from Time Warner, the American media conglomerate, and fresh programs from its TNT and CNN networks.
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By the end of the year, London-based Digital TV Research Limited estimates that Canal+ will have 579,000 subscribers in Ivory Coast and StarTimes 125,000.
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When the digital TV switchover happened a few years ago, my handheld TV was relegated to a drawer as there's now nothing to watch on it.
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Latin American SVOD (subscription video on-demand) subscribers are expected to double by 2023, according to Simon Murray, principal analyst and owner of Digital TV Research.
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Revenues rose 1.9 percent in its consumer business, where strong uptake in fixed broadband services and digital TV offset regulatory caps on using mobile phones abroad.
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This past year, Mediaocean piloted a way for agencies to buy linear and digital TV programmatically through a marketplace instead of buying it directly from broadcasters.
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Cord-cutters are ditching their cable packages at the fastest rate ever, opting instead for cheaper, bundled digital TV options, according to the latest Magid Broadcast Study.
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Per Bloomberg, Verizon is securing rights from TV networks to stream their content online, which is an important step towards moving into the digital TV streaming market.
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The online streaming video market in China is expected to be worth $7.85 billion by 2021, up from $2.67 billion this year, according to Digital TV Research.
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Here's a list, in non-list form: YouTube TV will compete with digital TV services launched in the last few years by Dish Networks, Sony and AT&T.
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The gun rights group bombarded Twitter during the awards ceremony through its digital TV channel, NRA TV, with claims that Hollywood celebrities want to take everyone's guns away.
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Its dominion is information in transit, with authority over things like what frequencies radio stations or Wi-Fi routers should use, or standards for transmitting digital TV signals.
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Xandr will unveil "Community," a curated marketplace that will leverage the combined digital TV ad inventory to allow advertisers to reach targeted audiences at scale with TV ads.
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The company unveiled a new app — simply named TV — at its Mac event today, promising users it will unite of all their digital TV content in one place.
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Gracenote is a large provider of television "metadata," data that helps TV viewers figure out what programming they are watching when they use digital TV guides at home.
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Go deeper: Streaming's cancel culture problem Video streaming growth in U.S. stunted by increasingly crowded market The magic streaming budget number: $38 The rising cost of digital TV
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Although UHF frequencies don't penetrate as far as VHF, they are less prone to the kind of interference that affects digital TV signals, so customers get a clearer picture.
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This is the first digital TV provider partnership for PBS, and the broadcaster is intent upon providing local live streams to "as many Americans as possible" with the move.
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Kudelski has developed and acquired a range of movie and digital TV technologies over several decades and became a player in the streaming-video market through its OpenTV acquisition.
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These include digital TV, the M-Kopa solar-powered lighting kit, Lipa-Na bill pay service, and Little ride-hail app―now going head to head with Uber Kenya.
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The problem is there's only so much of this desirable spectrum to go around, with numerous uses—phones, tablets, digital TV signals, GPS, baby monitors, Bluetooth devices—staking claims.
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They argue that because their companies don't own any media to sell against, they are better positioned to be the transparent middle man in the digital TV-buying space.
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Liberty Global – Liberty is in advanced discussions to sell its Swiss internet and digital TV unit to Zurich-based Sunrise Communications for $6.3 billion, according to a Reuters report.
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Liberty Global (LBTYA) is in advanced discussions to sell its Swiss internet and digital TV unit to Zurich-based Sunrise Communications for $6.3 billion, according to a Reuters report.
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He led Dish's SLING TV through it's launch — the first real digital TV "skinny bundle" in the U.S. — and Pandora through its sale process to Sirius XM last year.
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The UHF discount is an obsolete relic of a pre-digital TV era in which consumers received over-the-air analog television signals via old-school rabbit-ear antennas.
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These include digital TV, the M-Kopa solar-powered lighting kit, Lipa-Na bill pay service and Little ride-hail app, which is now going head to head with Uber.
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CBS is rolling out a (mostly) ad-free version of its CBS All Access digital TV service, which gives subscribers the ability to watch CBS programming live and on demand.
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A new report out today from TV analysis firm TV[R]EV, given exclusively to Axios, finds that free TV streaming services are driving the adoption of digital TV ads.
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RIO GRANDE, Argentina (Reuters) - On a recent morning, workers wearing blue shirts and black gloves assembled digital TV set-top boxes inside one of the world's most unlikely factory towns.
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Read More: The FCC Is Using an Obsolete Loophole to Help a Pro-Trump Media Company But the 2009 digital TV transition rendered the VHF-UHF distinction meaningless for consumers.
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The DVR feature would have only been limited to free-to-air TV, and Microsoft had released digital TV tuners in Europe and the US that would have supported it.
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A delay in the switch-off of analogue TV switch broadcasts in SSA has meant that the demand for digital TV has not materialised as quickly as we initially expected.
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Meanwhile, every other digital TV subscription service, from Netflix to HBO Now to CBS All Access, offers a mix of new shows backed with a large catalog of older stuff.
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Digital TV allows for more ways to target people within a household, like the ability to identify a user profile within a family subscription service and target ads to them specifically.
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A boom in new technologies, like digital TV ads, peer-to-peer texting, digital billboards and more, has made it easier for political campaigns to reach voters anywhere, at any time.
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Freeview, the UK's free-to-air digital TV platform, has released a new app that lets you watch all its on-demand content and some of its channels from one place.
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The company said revenues from its consumer business increased, as it added customers to its digital TV and fixed internet services as well as mobile phone customers on a monthly contract.
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Earlier this year, Disney purchased a majority stake in BAMTech, the cutting-edge digital TV provider for MLB Network, WWE and others, to transition programming onto an on-demand, digital platform.
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These mergers are mostly taking place to get ahead of consumers' migration to digital TV. But some worry that mergers could give deep-pocketed media conglomerates an unfair advantage over upstarts.
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Apple has started talking to TV programmers and other video companies about creating a digital TV guide that would work on both Apple TV boxes and other Apple devices, like iPhones.
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The British original is only available on Amazon Prime in France, and the streaming service had fewer than 700,000 subscribers here in 2018, according to an estimate by Digital TV Research.
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Simon Murray, principal analyst at London-based Digital TV Research, estimates that it has 1.41 million subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, mostly in South Africa, with five million expected by 2025.
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Emeryville, California-based Gracenote is a large provider of television "metadata," data that helps TV viewers figure out what programs they are watching when they use digital TV guides at home.
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Cameras were hidden inside digital TV boxes, wall sockets and hairdryer holders and the footage was streamed online, the Cyber Investigation Department at the National Police Agency said in a statement.
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It's the little arrow with a line next to it, and it paved the way for how we interact with digital TV by letting viewers jump freely around a TV show.
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In 2017, Chinese media conglomerate StarTimes funded the rollout of a migration to a new digital TV signal, and now controls 60% of a joint digital venture with ZNBC, called TopStar.
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The digital TV and video industry, including power-players Netflix and Amazon, is set to be worth $119.2 billion in 2022, up from $64 billion in 2017, according to new figures.
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That interaction leaves us asking something else, though: How can Twitter better highlight the value Leslie Jones is already adding to Twitter, especially as it makes forays into digital TV streaming?
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Why it matters: Free, ad-supported video gives companies the ad inventory to sell digital TV ads, which are seen as a lucrative opportunity for whichever publisher can really master the technology.
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Plusnet, which provides broadband, landline, digital TV and mobile services, has refunded 356 customers a total of £212,140, which included interest at a rate of 4 percent for each customer, Ofcom said.
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The consumer business was also boosted by a rise in revenues from fixed-line internet and digital TV products as well as more consumers taking up offers combining mobile and fixed services.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman and film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg have announced their new digital TV project will be called "Quibi" on Wednesday at the Vanity Fair Summit in Los Angeles.
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But in many cases, even that gap can be filled with the purchase of a cheap digital TV antenna, which will give consumers access to anything shown on a broadcast TV network.
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Sources say the strategic use of Facebook is meant to mimic the success the campaign saw using a near 50/50 digital/TV split, focusing its digital efforts on activating engagement through Facebook.
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According to a forecast from Digital TV Research analyst Simon Murray, Disney+—which offers original programming as well as movies from Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel—could reach 126 million subscribers by 2025.
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Digital TV Research, a British media consultancy, estimated in October that piracy would cost the global movie and television business $37.4 billion in lost revenue this year, an 18 percent increase from 2017.
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Snapchat, for example, measures a video view as any time a video is opened, while Nielsen counts video views on linear (and now digital) TV as active engagement for at least a minute.
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Kudelski has developed and acquired a range of movie and digital TV technologies over several decades, and became a player in the streaming-video market by virtue of its 2010 acquisition of OpenTV.
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Apple will give away free original content to owners of its hardware products (Apple TV, iPhone, etc.) as part of its new digital TV strategy, according to a new report out Wednesday from CNBC.
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Last month, Hulu and Spotify Premium announced a new entertainment bundle that would give individual U.S. Spotify Premium users access to Hulu's ad-supported digital TV and movie content plan at no additional cost.
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The digital distributors: Most virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) — or skinny bundle packages with live programming — have hiked the prices of their digital TV subscription fees as their user bases continue to grow.
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Digital TV players' budgets are set to dwarf some of their pay-TV competitors', with Netflix set to spend between $20173 billion and $8 billion on content this year, according to its latest earnings.
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Video: Apple will give away free original content to owners of its hardware products (Apple TV, iPhone, etc.) as part of its new digital TV strategy, according to a new report out Wednesday from CNBC.
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The next year, StarTimes launched the Rwanda Digital TV Platform, offering Rwandans more than 30 channels for $3 to $5 a month, including four Chinese channels from the main state-owned broadcaster in mainland China.
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Experts expect this partnership to significantly increase digital TV buying, which is estimated to have brought in less than $5 billion in revenue last year — less than 10% of the $70+ billion TV ad market.
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Instead, Apple is now working on an effort to create a digital TV guide that would allow users to browse and stream services like Netflix or Hulu without having to open up those individual apps.
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Free-to-air TV refers to the range of ad-supported (or TV license-supported) TV channels that you can access through a digital TV tuner, satellite or cable without paying anything to receive them.
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Naspers does not provide subscriber numbers for Showmax, but London-based Digital TV Research estimates it had 240,2140 at the end of last year, fewer than half as many as Netflix and mostly in South Africa.
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The UK government committed to provide £34 million ($42 million) between 2016-17 and £85 million ($106 million) per year from 2017-18 to expand the scope of the World Service's digital, TV and radio footprint.
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Even the most fearless producers turn pale when we see reports like this one from Digital TV Research, which predicts that, by 2628, online piracy will cost the U.S. film and television industry $28500 billion annually.
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It is a bold but not sudden move for the traditional television executive running a network known for its older viewers, who approached the digital TV revolution gingerly but is now pushing his company to its forefront.
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Apple could end up returning to its original content plan: Giving away shows for free as part of its digital TV strategy, and creating a platform to charge viewers for subscriptions to legacy media companies, including Disney.
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"Operation Accountability" will include a full media campaign spanning digital, TV and direct mail; dedicated paid staff in each district; coordinated outreach to his Need to Impeach grassroots supporters; various town hall events; and continued public opinion polling.
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HBO and Cinemax, two premium cable channels that are owned by AT&T, have gone dark for more than 10 million Dish Pay TV subscribers and 2.5 million Sling TV subscribers, a digital TV package owned by Dish.
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So long as a Roku TV is connected to an antenna and a USB storage device with 16GB or more, users can pause live digital TV broadcasts to their heart's content — or, rather, for up to 90 minutes.
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Under a law passed by parliament in late March, streaming and digital TV services, both domestic and foreign, will have to register with Turkey's media watchdog, known as RTUK, and abide by the same rules as television broadcasters.
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This means consumers will either buy some sort of a digitized Pay-TV package that's a little cheaper than current standards, or a digital TV package that has the breadth of choices that consumers get from Pay-TV.
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Estée Lauder announced today that Misty Copeland, principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, will front their Modern Muse fragrance (which originally launched in 2013) campaigns across digital, TV, in-store and print, starting in August as well.
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If Donald Trump and the biggest sport in America didn't move Twitter's numbers, and the rest of Twitter's livestreaming deals are not must-see TV, then operating as a digital TV service may not be the best approach.
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The company also has pulled all its digital, TV, and print advertising and stopped funding a ballot measure in San Francisco that would overturn the city's ban on e-cigarettes, and it has stopped lobbying the Trump administration.
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The loophole existed because UHF used to have limited range, but that distinction no longer matters because of a national transition to digital TV, which essentially gives their owners a two-for-one advantage when counting towards the cap.
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While ESPN has seen some erosion from consumers switching to skinnier cable bundles, he says Disney's strategy of including ESPN and Disney's other cable networks on all the digital TV bundles in the works will be a game changer.
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My mum ironing, me in my new secondary school uniform, the fat black and red tie loosened round my neck, as I plunged gulps of orange squash down and skimmed the channels on our new Telewest digital TV package.
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The shift away from standalone traditional digital services is designed to help Comscore serve the market's needs, especially in cross-platform measurement, which refers to measuring ad campaigns across various types of media such as digital, TV, and mobile.
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A group of hackers discovered that the chips that powered many cheap digital TV USB tuners could be repurposed to tune into an impressively wide range of frequencies, from as low as 24 MHz to well over 1000 MHz.
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North America and Western Europe are set to dominate the growth in revenues of the "over-the-top" (OTT) providers of digital TV, with China and the Far East not far behind, according to a report by consultancy Juniper.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday it was studying a move by cable and digital TV providers in the United States to take Russia's RT TV channel off the air in Washington, saying the move looked illegal and discriminatory.
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Also be aware that all of the digital TV services still have gaps in their coverage, usually around pro football: Deals — or lack of them — with local affiliates may affect your ability to watch your local NFL team play next fall.
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But Apple needs to convince streaming services like Netflix and Amazon to share their data and channel owners like CBS and NBC would need to compromise on the creation of an unprecedented digital TV bundle that could compete with cable.
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Why it matters: The price hikes, which usually occur when skinny bundle packages add more channels, show that it's difficult for smaller digital TV packages to compete with the bloated and expensive pay TV packages that they sought to displace.
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"Hosting of @bbnaija_ng in SA is enough reason for Nigerians not to watch," @JimNneke wrote on Twitter, one of many Nigerians who used social media to complain about the program broadcast on DSTV, MultiChoice's widely viewed digital TV subscription service.
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Driving the news: Hulu and Spotify Premium announced a new entertainment bundle early Tuesday morning that would give individual U.S. Spotify Premium users access to Hulu's ad-supported digital TV and movie content plan at no additional cost to current.
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Those deals, in aggregate, have quickly made Twitter a kind of 21st century digital TV network, a place where you may one day watch live video programming for sports and politics and entertainment just like you do on pay television today.
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According to an in-depth report from The Wall Street Journal in July, Apple tried and failed to strong-arm its way into lucrative licensing deals that would have allowed the company to offer a digital TV service unlike any we've ever seen.
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"As one of the most iconic brands in sports media, SI is a cultural centerpiece with massive opportunities for growth across its burgeoning digital, TV and social platforms and industry-leading print magazine," Authentic Brands Chief Executive Jamie Salter said in the statement.
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A team of researchers from the the University of Morelos in Mexico has developed this tiny antenna, which measures just 4 inches in length and weighs 3 ounces while picking up the same analog and digital TV signals that any larger aerial would.
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In Zambia, for example, StarTimes entered into a joint venture called TopStar with state broadcaster ZNBC to help the country make the switch to digital TV. The deal gave the Chinese player a 210% share in the state broadcaster for 2000 years.
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Our thought bubble: There's going to be a lot more premium video inventory on the major platforms for marketers, and the quality of the content, as well as mobile and digital TV delivery, will be a big part of what drives buys.
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He also painted a picture of the flexibility a digital TV service like Hulu offers, suggesting that consumers may one day be able to pay for individual shows on an ad-free basis, instead of having to subscribe to an ad-free tier.
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Why it matters: Iger touted growth in digital subscribers (people getting ESPN through digital TV packages on Sling, Hulu, etc.) as a net win for the company, which is looking to transform its linear TV business into a successful digital streaming business.
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ZURICH, June 1 (Reuters) - Swiss digital TV security company Kudelski said it is opening a second headquarters in the United States to mitigate the effect of the strong Swiss franc which has hurt its profits and to better access faster-growing markets.
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Film is still fighting an uphill battle — and despite appearances to the contrary, so is TV. A comprehensive study from USC Annenberg has detailed the lack of diversity in both media, tracking 109 movies and 1583 broadcast,cable, and digital TV series released in 2014.
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Comcast is betting that its redesigned Xfinity X1 cable box, which uses a single menu to find content across live TV, on-demand and streaming services like Netflix, will help retain and attract subscribers confused over how to navigate myriad new digital TV offerings.
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So Trump TV might make more sense, as Derek Thompson of The Atlantic and others have pointed out, as a subscription service — a paid digital TV network (with a Breitbart-ish website attached) along the lines of Glenn Beck's up-and-down experiment The Blaze.
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"We're trying to crack open the black box and compete on a different playing field than the walled gardens," said Mark Zagorski, chief executive of Telaria, a company whose software is used by digital TV services like Hulu and Sling to maximize ad revenue.
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It comes about as TV broadcasters have more airwaves than they need thanks to the move to digital TV, while those that offer (or want to offer) cell service badly need more space to serve all the demand for Netflix, YouTube and other video content.
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It now has at least seven operators, including the privately-held Airtel Digital TV, Tata Sky, and Reliance Big TV. The new entity will issue 857.791 million shares, and Videocon shareholders will have 2.021 shares of the combined firm for each share held in Videocon, Dish added.
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Like other new digital TV services, YouTube TV won't offer every network that cable TV services provide; instead it will feature a "skinny bundle," composed of the four broadcast networks — Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC — along with some of the cable channels related to the broadcasters.
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The bottom line: Digital TV content "with its limited ad inventory, is a relatively ideal platform for programmatic buying," the authors argue, because limited inventory will prevent a "race to the bottom" effect that exists on digital platforms where ad inventory is massive, like Google and Facebook.
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The bottom line: The market for studio-quality content has skyrocketed as a result of a digital TV and movie streaming boom, which has Third Point convicted that Sony Pictures is a hot asset to sell, and Sony convinced that it's a hot asset to keep.
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Now as grant recipients, Sesame Street and the IRC (who were selected out of 1,900 proposals) are building a digital, TV, mobile, and in-person curriculum that aims to provide tools for these kids to handle the trauma that comes with displacement and surviving in a conflict zone.
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Live-streamed ESPN networks (provided a user is a subscriber to ESPN's service, either through a traditional cable package or digital TV package) ESPN Plus, which for $4.99 will include "thousands of hours" of programming and live sports events that are not available on ESPN's current cable channels.
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According to Digital TV Research the number of pay TV users in sub-Saharan Africa - a region of more than a billion people - is expected to jump by three quarters between 2017 and 2023 to nearly 41 million, with more than half of that signing up for satellite TV offerings.
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Harmon's casual mastery of the sitcom formula was a compelling reason to watch his under-loved live-action sitcom Community; Roiland is something between a protégé and a partner on "Rick and Morty," having developed the title characters, both of whom he voices, in Harmon's digital TV workshop, Channel 101.
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For instance, Hauppauge, which makes a number of TV tuner add-ons for Windows and Microsoft's Xbox One game console, sells the Broadway box — a $150 gadget that connects to a digital TV antenna and your home network to pull in over-the-air broadcasts that can be watched on the Mac.
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Selecting streaming services is already complicated enough for consumers, who are overwhelmed by choices and frustrated by the rising cost of digital TV. According to media and entertainment consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates, the average person is willing to spend $42 on streaming services per month, which is up from $38 last year.
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It uses Nielsen (and Comscore) data to power its measurement suite called CFlight, and it uses Nielsen data to power the digital TV advertising tech it uses through a partnership called Open AP. The owned and operated stations will use both vendors to paint a better picture of how its content is being consumed.
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At first, digital TV bundles, which retailed for $20 to $40 a month depending on the channels, seemed like they might be appealing to people who wanted to get live TV but didn't want to buy it from a traditional cable company, or who had a pay TV subscription but wanted to spend less money.
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How it works: TV networks and providers (cable and satellite companies or digital TV companies like Hulu) are using data from set-top boxes (the boxes you get from your cable company with the blinking lights), combined with data from digital networks (produced as you browse the web), to target ads to you that you might like.
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For Cheddar, the business strategy has always been to build an extensive distribution network to make sure their content is consumed as widely as possible, but until now that has meant mostly two avenues: Authenticated feeds that people have to pay for (Cheddar's app or its channel on digital TV bundles like YouTube TV or Dish's Sling) .
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The group of friends, who all work in digital, TV, and radio in the U.K., have built up a following of eager "Belinkers" all over the world thanks to their banter (including a number of celebrities, who often appear on the show), boasting over 144,000 followers on Instagram and numerous sold-out live shows in concert halls.
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Befriending governments has been crucial to the StarTimes' business, as it bids to win state contracts to help countries make the leap from analog to digital TV. Angela Lewis, a PhD candidate in the international communications department of Nottingham University in Ningbo, China, who has been researching the company for years, said the company has had full backing Beijing in doing this.
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Its latest move signifies that it wants to reach "mass" viewers who are exposed to traditional television more than internet TV. The California-based video streaming major has announced partnerships with India's leading telecom carriers and DTH (direct-to-home) service providers — Airtel Digital TV, Videocon d2h and Vodafone — that will give viewers access to Netflix content even without a smart TV or a Google Chromecast.
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Mediaocean, the 50-year-old TV-buying platform that is used to purchase an estimated 75% of all TV ads in the U.S, is partnering with Adobe's Advertising Cloud to integrate digital ad buying with TV. Why it matters: Just a fraction of TV ads today are bought digitally, even though the technology is there to serve digital TV ads to more than half of Americans.
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With £28 million to invest initially, the VC firm has already backed Doodle Productions (creator of the international hit animated series Messy Goes To Okido), Disruptor Beam (creator of popular mobile games such as Game of Thrones Ascent and Star Trek Timelines), PunchDrunk (immersive theatre company), and The Rights Xchange (a digital TV rights marketplace which also includes Sky and Channel 4 as investors).
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Read more of Business Insider Prime's coverage of HBO Max and the streaming wars: A rush of new Netflix competitors could breathe life into struggling digital-TV bundles, but AT&T and Dish may need to overhaul their strategiesExclusive data shows how much buzz Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, and HBO Max have built with streaming users before launchA WarnerMedia exec describes the challenges of uniting HBO, Turner, and Warner Bros.
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That something — as Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE put it on The Hill's new "Rising" digital TV show on Thursday — was that Comey and his band of merry G-men committed "a big mistake" in their oversight of the FBI during the 2016 election.
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Between the lines: Many pay-TV providers are hoping to offset losses with gains in subscribers to digital TV alternatives, like AT&T's DirecTV NOW or Dish's Sling TV. But those companies haven't been able to come close to closing the gap, in part because of so much competition from other digital live TV alternatives, like Google's YouTube TV, Sony's PlayStation Vue and Fubo TV, as well as non-live TV alternatives with original programming, like Amazon and Netflix.
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Just how precisely the American population was being targeted by Trump's digital troops at that moment was not visible, because they attacked less on mainstream TV and more with personalized messages on social media or digital TV. And while the Clinton team thought it was in the lead, based on demographic projections, Bloomberg journalist Sasha Issenberg was surprised to note on a visit to San Antonio—where Trump's digital campaign was based—that a "second headquarters" was being created.
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The majority of broadcasted content is controlled by China Central Television (CCTV), which owns the internet-based China Network Television (CNTV) and its subsidiary Future TV. The additional OTT players include CIBN (established by China Radio International), Best TV (a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group), Wasu Digital TV Media Group (Alibaba partners), Southern TV, CETV and Twitch-like live streaming platform Panda TV. With Tencent (the country's biggest online gaming and social media company) distributing OTT content under a CCTV license, one can easily understand that gaining such permission is not an easy task for newcomers.
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The publication claims that a set is currently being tested by the DTG (Digital TV Group), which sets the technical standards for digital terrestrial broadcasts in the UK. Amazon currently offers its Fire TV Sticks in the UK, but the TV (if it actually comes to market) would mark the first time that the company would offer a full smart TV experience in the UK. Currently, Amazon only offers sets from Element, Insignia, and Toshiba with the Fire TV software preinstalled in the US. According to The Telegraph's report, the new set for the UK is being developed by "a group of Chinese manufacturers including Huawei," which would seem to indicate a new model.
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