Charter Communications, which offers services in the United States under the Spectrum brand, has become the leading cable television provider in the United States by subscriber numbers. It has finally overtaken Comcast, but only because it is losing cable television customers slightly more slowly. Between them, they lost nearly 0.6 million residential cable television customers in the last quarter, ending up with 24.216 million between them.
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Imagine the future of television in thirty years. That was the brief provided by the Radio Times for a team of academic researchers to run focus groups. It is notoriously difficult to predict the future of technologies, but when asked to imagine the future of television, viewers tended to have different views, depending on their age.
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Ofcom has confirmed the principles and methods that it will use to ensure the availability, prominence, and accessibility of public service programming on connected television platforms in the United Kingdom. Under the Media Act 2024, the communications regulator is required to make recommendations on the designation of ‘television selection services’ on these platforms.
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Vodafone and Three may launch a television service after their merger, which is due to complete in the first half of the year. It follows regulatory approval for their £15 billion merger that will create the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom, with 27 million customers, reducing the number of network operators from four to three.
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20 years since the first video was uploaded to YouTube, the business is now estimated to be worth about half a trillion dollars. In 2024 it had estimated revenues of $54 billion. YouTube TV is also the largest online multichannel television provider in the United States and could become the leading aggregator of online video services.
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A share of revenues from subscription fees to online video services should be paid into a fund to support British television production. That is one of the key recommendations of a report from the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee to the government. It also calls on the government to require the licensing of creative works in all cases where they are used to train artificial intelligence models.
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