Data published before England’s semi-final win over Denmark on July 7th reveals Gareth Southgate has won over England fans after being the target of a lot of pre-tournament criticism. The England manager has been a resounding success in charge of the national team, following up a World Cup semi-final in 2018 with another at Euro […]

BT has completed the sale of its business units serving customers in the public administration and Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) sectors in Italy to TIM. The transaction, first announced in 10 December 2020, has been cleared by the Italian Competition Authority and includes customer support for the SME business unit delivered from the BT’s […]

beIN Media Group’s flagship sports channel beIN Sports, the exclusive home in the MENA region of all the Euro 2020 action, will broadcast the knockout phase matches in Dolby Atmos along with Ultra HD, giving their 4K subscribers in the region an immersive stadium audio experience. Commenting on this collaboration, Chief Technology Officer at beIN […]

An estimated 22 million Italians watched content on a Smart TV in the period from October 1st 2020 to May 21st 2021 – a 39 per cent rise on the same period in 2019-2020. According to figures from the Studio Frasi Observatory, the overall audience dropped by 2.2 per cent, from 11.6 million to 11.3 […]

UEFA has tasked Sunset+Vine’s football production team to play a key role in providing coverage for matches at the EURO 2020 tournament that kicks off on June 1th at the Olympic stadium in Rome, with Italy facing Turkey. UEFA has selected 11 of Europe’s top directors, including Sunset+Vine’s leading staff match director Jamie Oakford. Each […]

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has relaunched its VoD platform Mediaset Play as Mediaset Infinity. The platform will continue to provide live streaming of the Mediaset’s general entertainment and terrestrial thematic TV channels and also on-demand access to its programme library. However, there are also several enhanced features. Users can now access a library of hundreds […]

Italy’s Financial Police, based in Milan, have identified and seized two illegal IPTV transmission centres located in Switzerland and Sicily. Some 22 Italians and two Swiss citizens have been accused of criminal association with a transnational character. Their activities consisted of the sale and distribution of decrypted audio/video streams to about 900 resellers whose proceeds […]

Out of 26 million Italian households, around 23.7 million receive TV through the DTT platform. The figures come from a market survey conducted by the Ugo Bordoni Foundation (FUB) in March 2021. Of the remaining 2.3 million households, 1.57 million access TV via other platforms (satellite, IP network) or have a TV without a terrestrial […]