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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Countries are now competing to be the first to launch a national television platform based on the DVB-I specification for service discovery. The Bavarian regulator has published its framework for the commercial deployment of DVB-I in the German market, expected to be launched at the IFA trade show in September. Freeview New Zealand is planning to be the first nationwide free-to-air television platform to use the standard. The race is on.
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Roku has launched the first significant update of its home screen in over a decade. It introduces a more dynamic presentation guided by user behaviour. Apparently, no two viewers will see the same home screen. The new design is available on all Roku televisions and devices in the United States and will roll out elsewhere in the coming months.
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For the first time, over 70% of homes in the United Kingdom have access to an online video subscription service. For some time, the proportion had bounced around two-thirds of homes. Although recent rises are incremental, with a year-on-year increase of about 700,000 homes, the percentage of all homes is psychologically significant.
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