The government in the United Kingdom is considering the future of television distribution, which could affect the prospects of the digital terrestrial platform that is marketed at Freeview. Strangely, the organisation responsible for Freeview, and the public service broadcasters that fund it, wants to switch if off by 2034. Naturally, the organisation responsible for providing the transmission network suggests that this could be premature.
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Sky has added low latency online versions of all channels showing live World Cup football games in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is intended to avoid the problem of delays associated with watching online compared to satellite.
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Bending Spoons, the Italian company that acquired Brightcove and Vimeo, among other online companies including the venerable AOL, is preparing for a public offering on the Nasdaq market in the United States under the symbol BSP.
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With the government in the United Kingdom expected to publish its provisional conclusions on the future of television distribution, the company that runs the terrestrial transmission network has proposed what it calls a viable, cost-effective and future-proofed plan that would maintain digital terrestrial television until around 2045.
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Global television shipments increased 6% year-on-year to over 50 million units in the first quarter of 2026, as retailers increased inventory in anticipation of the football World Cup. Major sporting events like the Olympics and the World Cup generally provide a boost to television sales, as people use them as a reason to buy a better, often larger screen.
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Everyone TV says that its Freely television platform is expected to be in 10.5 million households in the United Kingdom by 2034. Freely, which launched two years ago, had a million weekly users over Christmas. It is being promoted as the successor to Freeview digital terrestrial television, which is used in about half the households in the country, with about 3.6 million using it exclusively.
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