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Reaction to major BBC Children’s TV investment

There has been a glowing reaction to the BBC’s pledge of an additional £34 million (US$44 million) to the UK pubcaster’s kids television efforts over the next three years. TBI rounds up statements emerging from around the UK TV industry…   Anna Home, founder and patron of the Children’s Media Foundation “The Children’s Media Foundation […]

Dr. Oz creates OTT service JungoTV

Dr. Mehmet Oz has created an international OTT service that will offer language-specific video content to expatriates and diaspora communities. JungoTV has been created along with video technology firm Piksel, and will debut in the US and Canada in the autumn. Its founders – Oz, George Chung and Sandy Climan – claim it will have […]

Viewpoint: MCNs should go beyond YouTube

Miles Weaver, director of product marketing at TV tech firm Piksel, which recently co-launched GetBeyond.US with Endemol Beyond USA, explains how going direct-to-consumer could be the future for multichannel networks. With the top ten Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) on YouTube generating 370 million views in the first week of August 2015, most would agree that the […]

Piksel to acquire shows for OTT players

OTT TV technology specialist Piksel is branching out into content acquisition for OTT players. The company has set up a new unit, Piksel Content Services, to help telcos, internet service providers, cable operators and media companies to launch OTT ventures by taking over the task of negotiating content rights for them. Piksel – formerly known as […]