Sky has launched Your Multiview in time for the new football season, offering a way for sports fans to watch up to four live Sky Sports events simultaneously on a single screen. Multiview represents a long-standing ambition of interactive television. The BBC and Sky pioneered multiscreen viewing with Wimbledon coverage over a quarter of a century ago, but the technology available today makes it more practical.
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Charter and Cox have created the largest cable operator in America just as the word “cable” is losing its traditional meaning as a term for television. The deal is less about protecting television and more about building a national connectivity platform capable of competing with wireless operators, streaming platforms and satellite broadband.
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The total number of fixed internet connections in the United Kingdom remained flat in the middle of 2026 at 29.37 million, up by just 1,000 over the last quarter. The number of consumer connections actually fell by over 9,000 to just over 27 million, while business connections rose. A substantial number of people are still unable to connect or participate in a digital society, and it is not necessarily due to lack of investment in connectivity infrastructure. A new report suggests what a successful transition to a connected society could look like.
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The United Kingdom is planning for a future in which television is increasingly delivered over the internet and terrestrial television may ultimately be switched off. Setting a target date can help drive that transition, but the timeline should not become the objective. The real test is whether any replacement for terrestrial transmission has demonstrated that it can maintain universal access, achieve significant consumer adoption, and provide a service at least as reliable and accessible as the one it replaces.
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Groups representing low-power television stations in the United States are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to allow them to use 5G Broadcast as an alternative to ATSC 3.0, which is promoted as NextGen TV. Their proposal raises a wider question for broadcasters around the world: what might 5G Broadcast offer that existing terrestrial television standards cannot?
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Google is expanding its Freeplay offering on Google TV in the United States, adding more than 10,000 movies and shows available on demand to over 300 scheduled online channels. The move makes free television a more substantial part of the Google TV platform.
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