IT Challenges for Broadcast Engineers

IT Challenges for Broadcast Engineers Our consulting colleague Gary Olson has recently been interviewed for an article about how broadcast engineers face continuing challenges in coming to grips with the new IP-file based workflows. Published in Radio World, you can read all about it here.  →

Smart TV in Italy

dreamstimemaximum_15782272 New report Smart TV in Italy is the first of a series of strategy reports from Deadline Media TV on OTT and connected television. The analysis details the current market for Smart TVs in Italy within the framework of broadcasting,  →

Protecting Children against Online Porn in the UK

online-porn_16426588 ATVOD´s war against children accessing online porn continues. Strictly Broadband, the UK adult service that was forced to close down due to ´unmanageable´ trading conditions, has been fined today (6 December 2012) by Ofcom for not putting in place effective  →

A Fresh Vision for UK Internet & Content Regulation

vision_5772962 A new article by lawyer Graham Smith, expressing his personal views on the regulation of the internet makes for interesting reading. It was published this month and covers his views as presented at the SCL Forum in September 2012. The  →

The Future of European Audiovisual Policy

european_audiovisual_content_regulation_8570433 A review of the future of European Audiovisual Policy has been published this month by Christopher O. De Andrés on his blog. The article offers a wide-ranging tour across the EU legal framework, from the 1990s television to online, right  →

Latest UK Online Copyright Infringement Research

Computer keyboard with a pirate symobl on the Enter key Research published today by Ofcom shows that 47% of all UK internet users have no idea whether the content they are accessing online is legal or not. The report follows the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth that Ofcom  →

ATVOD advocates greater reliance on OPA

AVMS-Watch-ATVOD_14132035-sm The Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) has published its submissions to the UK Council on Child Internet Safety and to the Lords Communications Committee relating to Media Convergence and Public Policy on 18 October 2012. The documents address how  →

AVMS Insights

http://www.dreamstime.com/-image16860743 AVMS Insights offers an overview of AVMS implementation across Europe. Published in the October 2012 edition of InterMedia, the journal of the International Institute of Communications, the article is available to subscribers of the magazine. Contact us for details.  →

What does ¨TV like¨ mean?

tvlike Ofcom has published its long-awaited research into the definition of what is ´TV Like¨ in the context of AVMS, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. The report, commissioned by Ofcom and carried out by Essential Research Ltd, was intended to help  →