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12. The big squeeze

With multiple video compression formats emerging to challenge existing dominant technolo- gies, is the scene set for a period of confusion and fragmentation? Stuart Thomson investigates.

20. ’s home cinema revolution 24 Rakuten TV has big plans this year, including possible SVOD launches and an invetsment in movies. CEO Jacinto Roca talked exclusively with Stuart Thomson about his plans.

24. TV Connect: awards shortlist unveiled

TV Connect is set to take place at Olympia from May 9-10. Ahead of the event, the organisers have unveiled the shortlist for this year’s TV Connect Awards.

25. ANGA COM 2018: the preview

ANGA COM takes place at the Köln Messe from June 12-14. Peter Charissé, ANGA COM’s managing director, talks to Digital TV Europe about the key themes of this year’s event. 25

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2 This month 4 News digest 10 News analysis 22 Viewpoint 31 Technology 35 People 36 Final analysis

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p01 Contents DTVE May18v2st.indd 1 30/04/2018 18:26 This month > Editor’s note Digital TV Europe May 2018

Issue no 338 Dressed to compress Published By: KNect365 TMT Maple House emergence of digital TV; the entry into the video distribution 149 Tottenham Court Road business of telecom operators; the rise of large flat-panel TVs London W1T 7AD The and the accompanying rise of HD video. All of these shifts in the quality Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 5000 and sources of video we watch on our TV screens were enabled to a large Fax: +44 (0) 20 7017 4953 extent by technological innovations, and in particular by advances in vid- Website: www.digitaltveurope.net eo compression technology. New video compression techniques have enabled service providers to Editor Stuart Thomson push programmes down bandwidth-restricted pipes to consumers and to Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 5314 improve the resolution of those programmes to give people compelling Email: [email protected] reasons to watch them. The development of MPEG-2 enabled the rollout of digital TV 20 years ago, while the devel- opment of H.264/AVC furthered the ability of telecom operators to deliver video over low-band- Contributing Editor Andy McDonald width copper networks and also allowed less bandwidth-constrained network operators to pro- Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 5293 vide HDTV services. Email: [email protected] Since 2012, the successor to H.264/AVC – High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC – has been available, but its rate of adoption by video service providers has been slowed by what many regard as onerous and uncertain licensing terms. There are clearly applications that could pro- Contributors vide incentives for video operators to adopt a more efficient way of delivering video – namely 4K Kate Bulkley, Kaltrina Bylykbashi, Andy Fry, UHD TV and mobile video – but this has not been sufficient – so far – to force a generational Adrian Pennington, Adam Thomas, shift in compression technology. With growth in streaming, video providers have also been Anna Tobin able to make use of adaptive bit-rate encoding to enable services to be delivered over congested networks with no loss of the service. Correspondents , a number of new alternative technologies have emerged – most notably AV1 – that France: Julien Alliot; : Dieter could have a major impact on video delivery and spur further innovation. In this issue ofDigital Brockmeyer; Italy: Branislav Pekic TV Europe, we take a look at the current state of play in the emerging battle for compression supremacy. Also in this issue we look at the rationale behind ’s plans to split its Commercial Director Patricia Arescy business into two parts, and talk to Jacinto Roca, CEO of movies-on-demand service Rakuten Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 5320 TV about new opportunities in the market, the potential for further SVOD launches and the Email: [email protected] need to make movies available sooner after their theatrical release date. Finally, in the run-up to TV Connect and ANGA COM, we take a look at what to expect at these two industry events. l Art Director Matthew Humberstone

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p02 Ed Note DTVE May18v3st.indd 2 30/04/2018 18:12 pXX CSG DTVE May18.indd 1 26/04/2018 16:26 News > digest Digital TV Europe May 2018 News digest > 4 confirms cash offer for Sky > 5 to up video investment > 6 Amazon to increase video investment > 7 BBC to ‘reinvent the iPlayer’ > 8 EU bodies agree 30% quota for Netflix-type services Comcast confirms £22 billion cash offer for Sky

By Stuart Thomson > rights of Sky shareholders. 21st Roberts said the combination Century Fox currently holds a would “fuel our ability to invest Comcast has made a firm cash 39% stake in the operator. even further in innovation and offer for Sky that values the pay Comcast chairman and CEO drive more compelling financial TV operator at £22 billion ( 25 Brian Roberts said the company returns”. The acquisition of Sky, billion), with a commitment to had set an acceptance condition he said, would increase the pro- maintain annual expenditure of 50% plus one share, and that portion of Comcast’s revenues on for at least 10 years he hoped Sky’s independent di- from outside the US from 9% and to establish an independent rectors would recommend the will continue to support Sky’s to 25%. editorial board for the channel. proposal. Roberts said he did technology hub in Leeds; five, Speaking separately to US The announcement, which not see any material issues with we will maintain Sky’s Software investors and analysts, Comcast accompanied Comcast’s Q1 re- securing regulatory approval for Engineering Academy; and six, finance chief Michael Cavan- sults, puts the US cable and me- the deal. we will continue Sky’s local agh said that the deal was “not dia group in a head-to-head bat- “We know that Sky is very community programmes,” said trying to solve for just being in- tle with 21st Century Fox, whose important to the UK, and we Roberts in an investor call. ternational for the sake of being existing bid for the company respect that as this and part Roberts said that Comcast international” and emphasised values it at £19 billion. of our proposal today, we are had “admired Sky for a long that Comcast was “not striving Comcast’s bid would see Sky making a number of intention time”, that the pay TV operator for diversification internation- shareholders receive £12.50 in statements: one, we will main- was “an outstanding business” ally just for its own sake”. The cash for each Sky share. In ad- tain Sky’s UK headquarters at and that there were “strong stra- attraction of the deal was Sky’s dition, Sky shareholders will be the Osterley campus, which is tegic benefits in combining Sky specific value and performance, entitled to receive any final div- amazing; two, we will continue with Comcast”. he said. idend in respect of Sky’s finan- to support Sky as a leader in con- He said that the European Responding to the move, 21st cial year ended June 30, 2018, tent creation, arts, culture and market was highly attractive and Century Fox said that it “remains up to an amount of 21.8 pence entertainment; three, we have the acquisition would “create a committed to its recommended per Sky share tremendous respect for Sky leading platform for growth”, cash offer for Sky announced on The bid, wich will be financed News and its strong track record combining Comcast’s 29 mil- 15th December 2016 and is cur- by additional debt, is subject to for high-quality editorial and lion US customers with Sky’s 23 rently considering its options. A regulatory approval and the sup- journalistic independence, we million across the UK, Ireland, further announcement will be port of over 50% of the voting will fully maintain that; four, we Germany, Austria and Italy. made in due course.”

the first quarter, while its fixed Croatia followed the same pattern, grew, but pay TV led the way with Austria broadband base declined by 2.3% with the pay TV base growing 74.9% growth to reach 258,900 and fixed voice base fell by 4.5%, by 3.8% to 213,900, while fixed customers. Broadband grew by IPTV > A1 grows TV base leading to an overall fall in the fixed broadband and telephony declined 61% while fixed phone customers saw its domes- base of 2.8% year-on-year. by 2.3% and 4.4% respectively, grew by 10.9%. Mobile subscribers tic and international fixed-line base Mobile subscribers also declined leading to a dip in the overall in Belarus were flat year-on-year. decline in the first quarter, with by 1.7%, driven down by a 10% fall fixed base. Slovenia saw pay Macedonia bucked the trend, with growth in pay TV failing to offset in prepaid customers. In Bulgaria TV subscribers grow by 1.5% to pay TV numbers slipping by 0.3% a near across-the-board decline pay TV numbers grew by 2% to 54,200, with fixed broadband and to 123,500, while fixed broadband in fixed broadband and phone 488,100, while fixed broadband phone customers both declining. customers grew by 14.4% and fixed customers. Telekom Austria saw grew by 1.8% and voice declined by In Belarus, where the operator voice customers grew by 22.7%. its domestic Austrian TV base 19%. The overall subscriber base entered the fixed market at the Mobile customers declined over the increase by 4.1% to 302,000 in was flat at just over one million. end of 2016, all customer segments same period.

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IPTV > TF1 secures Free France TF1 Group has struck a distribution Germany Events deal with Iliad Telecom/Free. TF1 IPTV > Bigger Orange said the agreement covered both SAT > SkyQ launch date TV Connect Leading French telecom operator linear channels and associated is to launch the Date: 9 - 10 May Orange has increased its number of non-linear services, with Free advanced service in May, Venue: Olympia, London, UK TV customers by 6.1% year-on-year subscribers set to benefit from offering features that have been W: tmt.knect365.com/tv- to 9.097 million with strong gains “innovative functionality”. The available to viewers in the UK and connect/ in Spain and Poland. Announcing agreement covers catch-up Italy, including personalised TV, its first quarter results, Orange said services on the MYTF1 service, with UHD TV, startover and auto-play. Internet of Things World that it upped its TV base by 19.6% extended windows for content, the Sky Q will be available to the pay TV Date: 14 - 17 May year-on-year in Spain, recording availability of some programmes in operator’s subscribers in Ger- Venue: Santa Clara Convention 641,000 customers as of March an avant-première window ahead many and Austria, with Sky+ Pro Center, California, US 31, 2018. In Poland its TV numbers of their airing on terrestrial TV and subscribers getting an automatic W: tmt.knect365.com/iot-world climbed 12.5% year-on-year to unspecified advanced functionality upgrade. Sky Q will also be offered 875,000 customers. In Orange’s that will “allow to launch new automatically to all new Sky Northern Waves home and largest TV market, services”. In addition, the deal will customers. Sky Deutschland is also Date: 31 May France, it grew its subscriber count bring two time-shifted channels launching a new version of its Sky Venue: Gamle Logen, Oslo, from 6.69 million in Q1 2017 to to Free customers – TF1+1 and Ticket OTT offering, which makes Norway 6.87 million in Q1 2018. Overall TMC+1 – later this year, as well as Sky programming available across a W: www.northernwaves.tv the company announced 2.0% event-based programming in 4K range of devices with no fixed-term revenue growth to €10.08 billion. UHD. The carriage deal also covers contract. Sky Q provides access to New Europe Market Adjusted EBITDA was up 3.8% to digital channels TV Breizh, Ushaïa Sky content via a new user interface Date: 11 - 14 June €2.61 billion. TV, Histoire and TFOU Max. on up to five devices . Venue: Dubrovnik Palace Hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia W: neumarket.com Facebook to up video investment in 2018 ANGA COM By Andy McDonald > weeks before the end of Q1, and Date: 12 - 14 June the resulting scrutiny of Face- Venue: Köln Messe, Cologne, Facebook plans to ramp up vid- book’s data and privacy policies. Germany eo investment throughout the Asked about whether recent W: www.angacom.de rest of the year as it looks to events had caused any changes differentiate its offering from in advertisers’ views about the VR & AR World rivals like YouTube by focusing platform, COO Sheryl Sandberg Date: 12 - 14 June on personal connections. said: “In the immediate days Venue: ExCeL London, UK Speaking on the company’s Facebook is uniquely positioned of the concern we heard from W: tmt.knect365.com/ first quarter earnings call, CEO to build. Interactivity also ties in a handful of advertisers who ar-vr-world Mark Zuckerberg said that with Facebook’s video commis- paused spend, one of whom has while passive video consump- sioning strategy for its Facebook already come back. We haven’t Broadcast Asia tion is down on the site – a re- Watch platform. seen a meaningful trend or an- Date: 26 - 28 June sult of recent tweaks to how the Asked whether Facebook had ything much since then.” Venue: Suntec, Singapore Facebook prioritises content – it invested much on video content Sandberg also played down W: www.broadcast-asia.com is stepping up efforts around in- in the first quarter of the year, the suggestion that Facebook teractivity. “We’re trying to make CFO David Wehner said, “It’s might try and follow media ri- IBC 2018 a different experience than what clearly going to be more weight- vals like Netflix or by Date: 13 - 18 September you might be able to get on You- ed towards the rest of the year”. exploring a subscription model. Venue: Rai, , The Tube or any of these other ser- However, he also said that Face- “We certainly thought about vices by making it more about book’s gross margin declined lots of other forms of moneti- W: show.ibc.org connecting with people in dif- slightly, in part because of video sation including subscriptions, ferent ways,” said Zuckerberg. content investment. and we’ll always continue to MIPCOM He claimed that Watch Party, Facebook reported strong rev- consider everything,” said Sand- Date: 15 - 18 October a new feature designed to let enue and earnings growth, de- berg. “Ads for us is a very natural Venue: Palais des Festivals, groups of people watch content spite the recent Cambridge An- fit for our business, and we have Cannes, France and interact, is something that alytica scandal, which broke two a lot of runway ahead of us.” W: www.mipcom.com

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also highlighted the “transforma- BBC, such as Allo Allo, War and Global Wrap Italy tion” of its pay TV offering Mediaset Peace, House of Cards and Pride Premium, which it said was now and Prejudice, as well as Polish se- Watching television remains DTT > Mediaset in the black “less rigidly dependent on football” ries and other international series. the activity that children Mediaset returned to the black last and based on a new model that Maciej Stanecki, board member at aged three to 16 dedicate the year, posting a net profit of €90.5 involved opening up the digital-ter- TVP, said that the group’s vod.tvp.pl most time to, according to million – up from a loss of €294.5 restrial pay TV platform “to third site, which was launched two years Futuresource Consulting’s million last year – on revenues of parties”. Mediaset recently struck a ago, counted over 3.2 million unique latest Kids Tech Consumer €3.631 billion, down from €3.667 wide-ranging pay TV deal with rival users in March this year and 48.6 Survey. Across the surveyed billion. The improvement was Sky whereby its pay TV services million page views. He said that countries – which included helped by an 11.1% cut in operating would be offered alongside Sky’s on TVP had a record number of sports the UK, France, Germany, US, costs. Mediaset’s result in 2016 satellite and Sky would develop an broadcasts, series and films on the China, South Korea, Indonesia, had been hit by the impact of its offering to sit on the DTT platform. site, with further growth expected Mexico and Brazil – kids were aborted pay TV deal with Vivendi. during the forthcoming World Cup found to spend an average of Mediaset said that it expected ad- football tournament in Russia. 4.8 hours per week watching vertising revenues to improve this Poland Stanecki said that Strefa Abo – TV. YouTube removed more year, despite a negative trend in the Subscriber Zone – would enable it than eight million from first two months, followng a dip in OTT > TVP SVOD service to build a stronger relationship with YouTube in the fourth quarter ad sales in Italy last year. The group Polish public broadcaster TVP has its viewers. The service is available of 2017, most of which were expects its exclusive rights to air launched its own subscription vid- free of charge for the first 14 days, either spam or adult content. the football World Cup in both Italy eo-on-demand service, Strefa Abo, after which a monthly fee of The video site revealed the and Spain will help it improve its providing about 150 movies and PLN9.99 (€2.38) applies. Netflix in information in its first quarterly performance, but noted that market series for a monthly fee. The service Poland is priced at PLN34 by way of YouTube Community Guide- visibility remains poor. The group includes archive content from the comparison. Some groups, such as lines Report. Pay TV subscrip- tions declined in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Amazon to up video spend throughout the year region in 2017 while online video subscriptions grew 48% By Andy McDonald > fering to complement its Prime Olsavsky: year-on-year, according to IHS Video subscription video-on-de- spending on Markit. The research firm said Amazon said it plans to increase mand service. video content that MENA pay TV subscrip- its spend on video throughout For the three months end- will increase. tions fell 21% to 4.2 million in 2018, after the company more ed March 31, 2018, Amazon 2017, with the growth reversal than doubled its profits in Q1. reported revenues of US$51 linked to the regional boycott Speaking on Amazon’s first billion ( 42 billion), up 43% of Qatar, home to BeIN Media. quarter earnings call, chief fi- year-on-year. Net income more Netflix added a record number nancial officer Brian Olsavsky than doubled to US$1.6 billion, of Bosch and Sneaky Pete from of first quarter subscribers and said that “video content spend compared to US$724 million in the US, The Grand Tour from grew its streaming revenues will increase year-over-year” and Q1 2017. the UK, and You Are Wanted by 43% year-on-year. Netflix predicted that areas of strength The results sent Amazon’s from Germany, among others. added 7.41 million members in like Amazon Web Services and share price to an all-time high In December research firm the first quarter – 1.96 million advertising will continue to per- in after-hours trading after it Ovum predicted that Amazon in the US and 5.46 million in- form for the company. climbed by more than 7%. will overtake Netflix to generate ternationally. This was up 50% Asked whether Amazon The news comes a week af- more over-the-top video revenue compared to Q1 2017 and was would include advertising ter Amazon chief Jeff Bezos in 2018 thanks to its “growing ahead of the company’s own around its Prime Video offer- revealed in his yearly sharehold- array of ways to pay for video”. forecast. CBS All Access, CBS’ ing, Olsavsky said: “There may ers letter that Prime now has The research firm said that SVOD service, has launched in be opportunities over time to 100 million members, which he Amazon’s combination of sub- Canada, its first international have more advertising in our partly attributes to continuing scriptions, digital rentals, elec- launch. For C$5.99 (€3.82), video, but we choose not to do content expansion. tronic sell-through and bundles CBS All Access will offer view- that right now.” In the statement, Bezos said of TV apps will see it generate ers over 7,500 commercial-free The comments follow re- that Prime Video continues to US$5.8 billion in video-related episodes on-demand, as well as ports from last year claiming drive Prime Member adoption revenue in 2018, compared to the ability to live stream CBSN that Amazon was developing a and retention, adding that it had US$5.3 billion for Netflix’s sub- CBS News’ 24/7 news service. free-advertising-supported of- recently launched new seasons scription-only offering.

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elderly and disabled viewers, will be acquiring the legal right to exercise to establish that Altice had exercised in subscriptions was driven by IPTV, able to access the service for free, decisive influence over PT Portugal, influence over PT Portugal’s busi- which grew by 18%. The quarter saw according to Stanecki. TVP has said for example by granting Altice veto ness before its merger notification the launch of Telefónica’s Movistar it will make new titles available on rights over decisions concerning to the Commission or ahead of Series channel, which will take its 12 the service every quarter. PT Portugal’s ordinary business. It receiving the green light. Altice said original TV series to over 13 coun- also found that Altice had exercised that the EC’s ruling “would have tries this year via the Movistar TV influence over parts of PT Portugal’s serious consequences for European and Movistar Play OTT platforms. Portugal business, for example by iving PT companies” and set a precedent Global video revenues remained Portugal instructions on how to that would “have an impact on all largely unchanged, up 1% to €722 IPTV > Gun-jumping appeal carry out a marketing campaign and future M&A transactions in Europe million for the first quarter. In Spain, International cable and telecom by seeking and receiving detailed and consequently on the EU econo- Telefónica’s Movistar offering added group Altice has said it will appeal a commercially sensitive information my” if it went unchallenged. 500,000 TV customers year-on- decision by the European Commis- about PT Portugal outside the year, including 80,000 in Q1 – about sion to fine it €124.5 million for ‘gun framework of any confidentiality the same number as in Q4 last year jumping’ the regulatory green light agreement. In setting out the Spain – to take its total to 3.9 million. The to acquire PT Telecom – now Altice reasons for its decision to appeal growth was driven primarily by the Portugal – in Portugal in June 2015. to the EU General Court, Altice said IPTV > Telefónica subs up success of the operator’s conver- The EC ruled that Altice infringed that the PT Telecom case differed Spanish and international telco gent offering, Movistar Fusión, which the ‘prior notification obligation’ substantially from previous ‘gun Telefónica saw its global pay TV added 34,000 customers in the first relating to mergers and acquisitions. jumping’ sanctions imposed by base grow by 5% year-on-year to quarter and accounted for 88% of The Commission said that Altice France’s competition watchdog reach 8.6 million at the end of the TV subscriptions, up six percentage had made certain provisions in its relating to its acquisition of SFR and first quarter, with 137,000 net addi- points year-on-year, as well as 86% purchase agreement for the Por- Virgin Mobile France. Altice also said tions in Q1 actually exceeding the of broadband subscriptions and 81% tuguese operator that resulted in it that the EC’s file on the case failed Q4 2017 figure of 92,000. Growth of mobile contracts.

BBC to ‘reinvent the iPlayer’ to remain relevant to Millennials

By Andy McDonald > world is shaped by social media. but a place to browse and look It is a generation with which we for new material.” The BBC will focus on reinvent- have to work hard to remain rel- In terms of appealing to even ing the iPlayer this year and evant,” he said younger viewers, he spoke about making it more of a destination Clementi said that a recent the BBC’s 2017 commitment to for young people, according to meeting between BBC board spend an additional £34 mil- BBC chairman David Clementi. members and a group of 20-24 lion (€39 million) on children’s Outlining how the BBC will pect – not just offering audienc- year-olds in Coventry demon- content in the coming years face challenges like changing es programmes we know they strated that young adults pri- and about the recent launch of viewing habits and competition love, but also suggestions for marily get their news from so- CBBC Buzz, a social mobile app from global giants like Netflix what they might like or need to cial media and expect to access for children aged under 13. and Amazon, Clementi said that know.” all episodes of a TV series at Older viewers, Clementi said, the BBC’s focus on modernis- He said the BBC is also re- once – and for a longer period are like younger viewers in the ing its services will allow it to al- inventing radio services, with than the 30-day limit that ap- sense that they continue to ter how it delivers content to au- plans to transform iPlayer Radio plies to much of the content on consume media via both tradi- diences and how they respond. to bring together the BBC’s ra- the iPlayer. tional and newer methods. “In Speaking at the Voice of dio and audio content – includ- “While they go to iPlayer to distinguishing between older the Listener and Viewer (VLV) ing a growing range of podcasts. find favourite and recommend- and younger viewers, it would Spring Conference in London, Addressing the different ed programmes, it was clear to be wrong to see this as a distinc- Clementi said that while the needs of audience demograph- me that we need to do more to tion between linear and digital BBC’s public service mission is ics, Clementi described the 16- encourage them to browse the consumption,” he said. “We’re more important than ever, it has 34 age group as the BBC’s “big- service and discover something increasingly seeing the benefit also become harder than ever. gest challenge”. surprising or new,” said Clem- of using iPlayer to highlight con- “This year we are focusing on “They watch less TV than enti. “We want to grow iPlayer tent from our linear channels, reinventing iPlayer to provide older people and listen to less as a destination for young peo- and equally using our linear the individual, personalised radio. They are the smartphone ple, as well as for all audiences. channels to draw people’s atten- service they more and more ex- generation and their view of the Not simply a catch-up service, tion to content online.”

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Q1 was its seventh consecutive sport of tennis in the US – is due since the Salisbury attack on Sergei Sweden quarter of more than 5% organic to begin with the 2018 US Open in and Yulia Skrypal the regulator had sales growth, attributing this to the August. Prime Video members in observed a “significant increase” in SAT > MTG on the up investments it has made in its con- the UK and Ireland will be able to programmes on RT that could be in Modern Times Group (MTG) tent portfolio and digital products. access live matches, on-demand breach of the Ofcom Broadcasting reported strong first quarter results Digital sales were up 88% in the match highlights and other content Code. In determining whether TV with 9% organic growth and profits quarter and accounted for 35% of at no additional cost. Novosti, which is considered to be up 73% as it prepares to split the total sales. a state-backed broadcaster, is a ‘fit business into two by spinning off its PROG > Ofcom probes RT and proper’ holder of a UK licence, Nordic Entertainment group. UK media and telecoms regulator Ofcom said it was “not possible or For the January-March period MTG Ofcom has opened seven new appropriate for us to seek to reach reported record Q1 sales of SEK investigations into Russian overseas an independent determination on 4,674 million (€450 million). This OTT > Amazon for tennis news channel RT following the the events in Salisbury” and that compared to SEK 3,704 million Amazon has agreed a five-year deal nerve agent attack on a Russian “the most appropriate way to con- a year earlier, with 9.2% organic to broadcast live and on-demand exile and his daughter in the city sider whether TV Novosti is likely growth. Earnings before income coverage of the US Open Tennis of Salisbury. Ofcom said that to act in a fit and proper way is to and tax (EBIT) climbed 73% Championships to Prime Video RT parent TV Novosti’s overall consider its broadcasting conduct”. year-on-year to SEK 237 million, Members in the UK and Ireland.The compliance record with its licence Ofcom said that it would reveal the while net income increased 74% deal, agreed with the USTA – the had not previously been out of line outcome of its investigations as to SEK146 million. MTG said that national governing body for the with other broadasters, but that soon as possible.

EU bodies agree 30% European quota on Netflix-type services

By Stuart Thomson > their advertising periods outside visual regulators, which must be primetime, instead of respect- independent of government and The European Parliament, Eu- ing the current limit of 12 min- other public or private bodies. ropean Council and the Euro- utes per hour. Negotiations will officially pean Commission have struck Parliamentary negotiator Pe- end in June when the Parlia- a preliminary deal on revisions tra Kammerevert said that the ment, Council and Commission to the audiovisual media ser- outcome was “well balanced, es- will meet to finalise and discuss vices directive that will see new pecially with regard to the scope remaining details. After confir- quotas imposed on subscription mand revenues in that country – of the directive, including vid- mation by the Council and the video-on-demand services. meaning member states where eo-sharing platforms and audio- European Parliament’s plena- The new rules will include an they are established or states visual content on social media, ry vote, the new rules will then obligation on OTT TV services, where they target the audience. a more level playing field for have to be transposed into na- promoted by the Parliament, to The Parliament also secured all communication stakehold- tional law. respect a quota of 30% for Euro- measures to protect the integrity ers, and protection of European For the Commission, EU pean works on their platforms. of broadcast signals, with an ob- works”, while negotiator Sabine vice-president for the digital sin- The level of the quota follows ligation on service providers not Verheyen said that the Parlia- gle market Andrus Ansip said: the European Council recom- to add a window with content to ment had “negotiated a level of “These new rules reflect digital mendation of a 30% quota in the screen during the transmis- protection for internet media progress and recognise that peo- May last year and goes well be- sion of a programme on smart services similar to that in place ple now watch videos in differ- yond the 20% level proposed by TVs. for traditional broadcast media”. ent ways than before. They en- the EC two years ago, when it The new rules include strict Other elements of the revised courage innovative services and first presented planned updates regulations on advertising or directive include a strengthen- promote European films – but to the directive as part of its digi- product placement in children’s ing of the ‘country of origin’ also protect children and tackle tal single market strategy. TV programmes or content principle, with what the EC said hate speech in a better way.” VOD and SVOD platforms available on video-on-demand would involve greater clarity on French media regulator the will also be asked to contribute platforms. which state’s rules apply both Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovis- to the development of European The law will also see a loosen- for broadcast and VOD services. uel (CSA) was quick to welcome audiovisual production, either ing up of rules on advertising, The legislation will also be the proposed rules, and in par- through a direct investment in with a maximum 20% quota of extended to video-sharing plat- ticular the extension of regula- content or a contribution to na- advertising of the daily broad- forms, including Facebook and tion to video-sharing platforms tional funds. The level of contri- casting period between 06.00 YouTube. The directive will also and the obligation on SVOD bution in each country should and 18.00, giving the broad- see new measures to ensure the providers to provide European be proportional to their on-de- caster the flexibility of adjusting independence of national audio- content.

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p04-08 DTVE News Digest May18v4st.indd 8 30/04/2018 18:07 Q&A: Oliver Soellner, ABOX42

Oliver Soellner, member of the management board at ABOX42, talks about the advantages of turnkey solutions for TV service providers.

What are the main challenges facing telecom operators in launching from someone who is a specialist in his eld. It is easier, faster and TV services and keeping them up-to-date? cheaper to rely on the trusted technologies of a turnkey IPTV solution The TV market is developing very fast nowadays, so there is a constant than investing lots of time and money in operators’ own developments need to innovate and keep up with the latest developments, always a and investigations. need to observe the latest technologies and trends on the market. This is Next to cost, a turnkey solution reduces the overall project complexity quite new for traditional operators (e.g. cable operators) who are not used for the operator, allows the operator to grow seamlessly and benet to acting agile and keeping up with the market and competitors, since in from a steady evolvement of features and functions. the past TV services were mainly linear, without much interactivity. Last but not least a turnkey solution takes away a lot of hassle from Today there are many new possibilities in terms of features and services operators maintaining the solution including all applications, which (network PVR, restart TV, on-demand services, OTT services), which requires steady development to maintain compatibility of all apps (e.g. requires a much more exible TV solution including a strong set-top box iOS, Android, Windows). platform to be able to introduce new features over time and keep up with technology trends. To what extent are turnkey solutions more suited to the needs of small and medium-sized operators, and to what extent are larger players What are the main technology innovations that are changing the way likely to go down this route? IPTV systems are implemented and what impact will they have? We have seen a clear trend for a couple of years already towards white Looking at recent technology innovations, UHD/4K seems to be a main label multiscreen IPTV and hybrid solutions, and not only with smaller/ driver for change these days. UHD/4K requires changes in the complete medium size operators who could not handle a complex project and do content delivery system, starting with the introduction of H.265/HEVC not have the budget for it. for more ecient content distribution and enhanced content security Even larger operators are increasingly considering hosted and requested by content owners. These technology changes have an impact managed solutions, since the history shows that many operators on the whole production and delivery system (production equipment, struggled with their legacy solutions by managing a complex project encoding, transcoding, streaming and end-user devices such as the in-house, which has a lot of room for failure and requires quite a operator set-top box). Such change needs solid planning and has quite strong in-house product management and organisation with various an impact on operator TV solutions. stakeholders. Apart from UHD/4K we see a major trend on the operator side to With a turnkey solution the project complexity is much reduced, which provide comprehensive multiscreen services on multiple devices, which allows the operator to focus on his major strength in marketing and sales. also allow interactions between mobile devices and the set-top box e.g. for content discovery on mobile, playback on TV, essential control How much exibility does a turnkey oering give to service providers functions as well as remote programming of recordings. to dierentiate the user experience and their overall oering? Due to the fact that infrastructure is evolving fast and operators are In the past one of the arguments of larger operators made against white able to oer decent broadband connections on DSL and bre, more and label/ turnkey solutions was that these solutions do not oer enough more end-customers are getting access to new IPTV and hybrid solutions. customisation possibility. Today, this is also becoming less of an issue, since most modern TV middleware solutions are browser-based and What are the main advantages for operators in choosing a turnkey do oer a high level of exibility for customisation and UI changes to IPTV system as against developing a platform using multiple suppliers? achieve a unique user experience across all screens, while still leveraging Choosing a system from a trusted partner means choosing a solution the advantages of a white label/turnkey solution.

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Sign of the times MTG’s decision to split into two, with businesses focusing on broadcasting and streaming and growth areas such as eSports respectively, was a long-term strategy, according to MTG corporate affairs chief and UK CEO Matthew Hooper. Stuart Thomson reports.

Times Group’s (MTG) decision to invest Modern heavily in eSports, multichannel networks and online gaming, and subsequently to split in two, was the result of a careful assessment of the future entertainment services and a realisation, following the launch of its Viaplay SVOD service, that people were moving to different forms of entertainment, according to Matthew Hooper, recently appointed as EVP, group head of corporate affairs and CEO, MTG UK, and soon to hold the same position at broadcast arm Nordic Entertainment Group UK. “We decided to self-disrupt,” Hooper told attendees at an event organised by Ampere Analysis in London recently. “We did it to ourselves before it was done to us.” The decision to split the group in two, with the MTG brand reserved for the high-growth areas of eSports, MCNs and online gaming and a new company, Nordic Entertainment Group, taking over the free and pay TV activities, streaming outfits and production Hooper said that since content can be distributed across linear and activity, which was announced in March, was a logical extension of this streaming services, it made sense to have Viaplay and Viasat put together strategy and had been in train in some shape or form “for a long time”. with content production. The third part of the strategic shift, was the sale He said that MTG set an ambition in 2013 to become a digital of MTG’s international businesses, which was completed by the sale of entertainment company rather than a channels group. While the its majority stakes in Bulgaria’s Broadcasting to investment outfit development of online video services Viaplay and Viafree was already in PPR, and urban culture media group Trace to TPG Growth. MTG sold train, the bulk of the group’s business was in linear TV, something that out of its international businesses to finance its investment in new areas. remains the case: “That represents a strong installed base that is gradually The decision to finance the MTG-Nordic Entertainment split moving towards the streaming space, but it is still very important today.” through a distribution to shareholders would result in a well-financed MTG’s initial decision to focus its future investment efforts on eSports MTG business set for growth, said Hooper, leaving debt with the more and multichannel networks as the key growth areas, was the first step. established Nordic Entertainment Group. The group bought into eSports through its acquisition of a majority On the MTG side, Hooper said that both eSports and gaming are stake in Turtle Entertainment, owner of eSports leader ESL; acquired huge growth opportunities, and that advertising and sponsorship around Scandinavian eSports firm Dreamhack; and expanded into multichannel eSports could be extended beyond the core young-male audience. “eSports networks with the acquisition of ZoominTV. Investments in gaming enthusiasts are typically younger but it does extend,” he said. “Brands like outfits Kongregate and InnoGames followed. Mercedes and others are coming in. And everyone knows the size of the The decision to split in two followed the failure of a proposed sale of the mobile gaming market. With Kongregate you have 100,000 free to play Nordic Entertainment arm to Danish telco TDC, leaving MTG to focus as games. You have gaming IP being created every day.” planned on new growth areas. However, Hooper said that the sale plan On the Nordic Entertainment side, Hooper said that a large amount was essentially part of the same strategy. of revenue and profit still comes from traditional TV businesses and TDC pulled out of the plan after it received an acquisition offer from that is important in securing the financial future of the company. He Australian infrastructure investment outfit Macquarie, which made said that the new company would benefit from the fact that Nordic ending the MTG plan a condition of its offer. Hooper said that MTG still content “travels very well”. had a strong relationship with TDC and there were lots of links between MTG has seen that the group had a good opportunity to create original the two companies. However, he said the cancellation of the TDC sale content for Viaplay, and Nordic Entertainment has an opportunity to go was “a missed opportunity” for both sides to create a fully converged further, he said. Viaplay continues to be well-placed to compete in the telecom and media company. Nordic streaming market, offering premium sports, as well as a strong The architecture of the split follows lines that already exist within first-play window and the resources to create original content. “[Netflix is] MTG. The Nordic Entertainment business will combine with MTG quite different, but they have been fantastic for broadening the appeal of Studios including production arm Nice Entertainment and YouTube SVOD and streamed content,” he said. network Splay Networks, “which is more about influencer campaigns Hooper added that, in general, TV could still be a growth business, now”, according to Hooper, and is being taken out of the former MTGx whatever the superior growth trajectory of eSports. digital portfolio. The addition of Splay Networks to Nordic Entertainment “Convergence is a reality but the strategy we have had is... making our makes sense because it also has “a very Nordic focus”. content available very widely.” l

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p10 MTG News Analysis May18v4st.indd 10 30/04/2018 16:45 p11 NEM May18.indd 1 27/04/2018 16:57 Technology focus > Video compression Digital TV Europe May 2018

The proliferation of video-capable devices and streaming services, combined with the advent of UHD TV means that the pressure is on to find more efficient ways of forcing video down bandwidth-restricted pipes. However, with multiple video compression formats emerging to challenge existing dominant technologies, is the scene set for a period of confusion and fragmentation? Stuart Thomson investigates.

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is a truth universally acknowledged that in the compression space specialises in live “so much more computationally intensive” It a video service provider in possession of video applications. – in other words requires much greater an expanding customer base must be in want While HEVC-capable set-tops have been processing horse-power – than HEVC that of a more efficient way to deliver content. available for the last few years – including it only makes sense for file-based encoding. No matter how rapid the expansion of boxes from Arris – Peske says that few IPTV He adds that one of the supposed key available bandwidth, the volume of video operators have made the switch. For cable, he advantages of the technology over HEVC – traffic will expand to fill it. The dramatic and says, upgrading to HEVC would likely be an that it is royalty-free – is less important than ongoing growth in IP video consumption, accompaniment to launching an IPTV service is sometimes claimed because of the need on and ever-growing expectations among once they have access to sufficient DOCSIS the part of users for indemnification against consumers about the quality of that video, bandwidth as part of the longer-term shift possible infringement of patents that have therefore means that advances in video away from DVB-C – something that has not not yet come to light. compression remain a key objective for the happened yet. However, the main reason that If its supporters are to be believed, however, video industry. HEVC has been of relatively limited use so AV1 should certainly be considered a viable It is not only about pure volume. The far is the licensing issue, he says. alternative to HEVC. The AOM claims bitrate rapid increase in non-linear and mobile “The patent pools confusion – with three savings of 30% compared with the open- video consumption, combined with the different pools and other [companies] not source x265 implementation of HEVC for advent of 4K UHD TV, adds to the pressure in any – have not helped the situation, but file transcoding. on the internet and adds costs to traditional things are slowly getting cleared up,” says Some industry players nevertheless broadcast delivery respectively. Peske, who cites Apple’s endorsement of challenge these claims. Technology provider Most industry experts also believe that HEVC as a possible catalyst for change. Harmonic earlier this year teamed up with broadcast will account for an ever-declining the Institute of Research and Technology proportion of global video delivery in the B<>COM to test AV1 and found that HEVC future, meaning that bandwidth-saving Potential challenge still outperforms AV1 on subjective testing. technology for unicast delivery will be even “In summary, compression efficiency more in demand. Other codecs have now emerged that could currently seems to be equal between the The most commonly used compression potentially challenge the primacy of HEVC two codecs for file-based applications,” standard for digital video distribution for next-generation video applications. The says Thierry Fautier, VP of video strategy at applications, AVC/H.264, has now key technology in this respect is AV1, an Harmonic. been around for a long time. Ongoing open-source codec developed by the Alliance Tony Jones, principal technologist, media improvements to the technology – beyond for Open Media (AOM), a group of powerful solutions at Ericsson, is of a similar opinion, what was expected when the standard was companies that includes , Mozilla, arguing that AV1 “needs to be tested more first created – have given AVC a longevity that Netflix, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. rigorously” and that these tests need to be would have surprised its creators. Many claims have been made on behalf “like-for-like”. Based on preliminary analysis, The putative replacement standard of AV1, and the technology has generated he says bit-rate efficiency seems to be “pretty for H.264 is HEVC/H.265, which was considerable buzz, particularly since similar” to HEVC, while AV1 requires standardised as long ago as 2012 – six years ago. While millions of HEVC-capable devices such as set-top boxes have been deployed, the standard has not been as widely adopted by “The idea that there is a wholesale drive broadcasters and service providers as some towards internet-style delivery is naïve. expected, primarily due to industry concerns There will be pressure to do things a bit about costly licensing terms. While some of the issues around licensing have now been more sensibly.” resolved – notably the fee for streaming Tony Jones , Ericsson applications was recently cancelled – the presence of three separate licensing bodies the AOM’s release of the AV1 bitstream considerably more processing power. has contributed to this confusion and specification at the end of March along with Jones is sceptical about AV1 winning uncertainty, which remains a fact of life for a reference software-based encoder and widespread adoption. “AV1 is obviously being those looking to adopt the technology. decoder. However, there are major issues that positioned as a rival to HEVC. If the market “We had expected to see more activity in are likely to hinder adoption – particularly the wanted to move to it, based on the fact that the pay TV space, but cable operators have processing power required on the encoder its performance was dramatically different not had the bandwidth to simulcast [using side compared with HEVC. – which is contrary to what we expect – we different formats] and IPTV operators have Arris’s Peske says that his company has would go with that,” he says. However, based not jumped on it,” says Richard Peske, vice- not seen much interest in AV1 to date for live on findings so far, it seems that “AV1 has yet president, video compression and advertising broadcasting, though he concedes that there to be optimised and that it has a long way to products at technology company Arris, which is “more interest in VOD”. AV1, he says, is go” before it can seriously rival HEVC.

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This view is echoed by Peske. While he devices is expected to be more than 10 billion. less go away – the younger generation is not believes AVC will have many more years to In other words, the industry will still need watching linear TV anymore.” run as the prime distribution technology, the HEVC for many more years,” he says. The last point is moot. The view that next step is likely to be HEVC rather than AV1. broadcast is on the way out is certainly “As we’re focused on live video, we are betting challenged by Ericsson’s Jones. “Anytime you on HEVC,” he says. Peske says that HEVC is Hardware availability switch to unicast there is a cost,” he says. “The unlikely to deliver huge improvements on idea that there is a wholesale drive towards what it can already do in terms of bandwidth Not everyone agrees that HEVC will dominate internet-style delivery is naïve. There will be optimisation going forwards, but suggests video distribution in the future, however. pressure to do things a bit more sensibly.” that the more widespread use of adaptive Christopher Mueller, chief technology officer For now, at any rate, broadcast remains a bit-rate encoding will have an important role and co-founder at Bitmovin, a company highly important part of video delivery – and to play in how compression technology is that has been at the forefront of AV1 and a this favours HEVC. “So far AV1 has only deployed. He suggests there could be ‘mixed key player within the AOM, claims that the shown capability for OTT, not broadcast, ladders’ of encoding in the future, with 50% improvement from AVC to AV1 and while HEVC can address both,” he says, HEVC deployed for higher-resolution video licensing uncertainty about HEVC will adding that HEVC is currently present in over and AVC used for lower-resolution versions play in AV1’s favour. Regarding uncertainty two billion devices globally – an addressable of the same content. about patent claims on AV1, he said that the market that is a powerful argument for the While established technology players such “large number of companies” supporting the primacy of the technology. as Ericsson and Harmonic remain convinced technology will protect those adopting it from Broadcast and managed delivery is one that MPEG standards such as HEVC will stay the claims of smaller technology players. thing. Harmonic’s Fautier admits that at the core of video delivery for traditional Mueller says that AV1 will be available on AV1 has an advantage on the open web. broadcast and pay TV delivery as well as hardware from 2020, which will kickstart “Interoperability with the internet ecosystem, much of online video, this doesn’t mean wider adoption, and points out that the including web browsers and Android/ that AV1 will have a nugatory impact on the support for the codec of both Google and iOS stores for connected devices, is critical. market. On the contrary, the availability of an Apple should not be discounted. The HEVC only works natively with Internet alternative means that the HEVC community technology is a significant improvement Explorer and Safari while AV1 should be is under more pressure to get its act together on its predecessor, the VP9 codec used compatible with 100% of the web browsers, – meaning that one of the biggest impacts of by YouTube, adding DRM encryption for as all founders are AOM members,” he says. AV1 could be to boost HEVC. example. He says that the key industry factor On the other hand, he adds, when it comes “HEVC is great technology that has only that will drive adoption is the need to fit more to mobile apps, HEVC is supported in both Android and iOS ecosystems.

“In the broadcast space HEVC will still be the Future technologies choice but in the OTT space it will be AV1.” HEVC and AV1 are not the only next- generation compression technologies available to video distribution companies. Christopher Mueller, Bitmovin The rate of innovation in compression is, if anything, accelerating. The latest MPEG been hampered by the licensing terms,” video into the same amount of bandwidth. He standard and potential HEVC replacement, says Fautier. However, he adds, the presence dismisses the objection that AV1 is massively JEM/H.266, is now on the agenda, the of AV1 as a potential alternative has already more computationally intensive than HEVC, standardisation process having kicked off in concentrated minds, pointing to the decision arguing that for larger players in particular, October last year. of HEVC Advance, one of the technology’s the bandwidth savings more than offset the The latest MPEG meeting in San Diego in three licensing bodies, to cancel the fee computational effort. Mueller also says that April was scheduled to discuss which tools to for streaming applications. This impact, Bitmovin’s AV1 implementation reduces the be included in the standard and, according combined with the fact that HEVC devices processing power differential with HEVC to a to Harmonic’s Fautier, the industry is on are already widely penetrated, means that factor of 10 rather than a factor of thousands. track to achieve a 50% bit-rate improvement HEVC has a strong future, he says. For all these reasons, Mueller believes that compared with HEVC by 2020, something “In terms of commercial deployments, AV1 will gain a significant market share. he describes as “a real breakthrough in terms for VOD OTT, all members of AOM have “In the broadcast space HEVC will still be of compression efficiency, especially as it will indicated that they will deploy the codec as the choice but in the OTT space it will be not only improve on HEVC but also AV1”. soon as devices are available, which is not AV1,” he says, adding that, in his view, this The AOM meanwhile, is already working on expected to occur until after 2020. By this gives a longer term advantage to the newer a new version of its codec, AV2. time, the number of HEVC-only capable codec. “In the future linear TV will more or While H.266 promises great things, its

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p15 Arris May18.indd 1 30/04/2018 11:52 Technology focus > Video compression Digital TV Europe May 2018

development could be stymied by the same licensing disputes that have dogged HEVC Making the most of AVC and, before it, AVC. To avoid this, says Fautier, the video community is discussing While a lot of attention has been focused on the capability of existing infrastructure, and the creation of a group outside of the key the emergence of multiple new compression claims that it provides “the least expensive standards body, ISO/ITU-T, that will “facilitate formats and on the licensing battles bang for your buck” in terms of delivering the selection of technologies to be deployed surrounding HEVC, AVC/H.264 remains the bandwidth improvements on AVC at multiple commercially using H.266 technology”. most widely used standard technology for bit-rates. This group, he says, should address licensing compression in advanced markets. Other companies have also developed issues “at the front end of the standardisation With this in mind, technology companies technologies that could broadly be perceived rather than at the back end”. have looked at ways to further optimise AVC, as ways of extending the life of AVC, enabling Public broadcasters organisation the which could obviate the need for an immediate the delivery of more and higher-resolution European Broadcasting Union (EBU) upgrade to HEVC or AV1. video services to existing devices. Harmonic’s commissioned the University of Applied Video compression specialist V-Nova EyeQ ‘content-aware’ encoding format is also Sciences of Wiesbaden to carry out a developed Perseus Plus, a version of its Perseus designed to work using a standard AVC codec subjective evaluation of the competing video codec that CEO Guido Meardi says can be and is marketed by the company as an optional compression technologies in January. The deployed without the need for new hardware enhancement for its software-based PURE evaluation included a comparison of the acceleration. encoder platform. The technology can be used to speed of encoding and decoding and was “One of our core assumptions is that with 10 optimise variable bit-rate AVC. Harmonic claims designed help EBU members choose the best billion video-capable devices in the world and that the technology can deliver bandwidth codec for their individual needs. turnaround cycles [slowing], it is going to be savings of up to 50% on standard AVC. According to Hans Hoffmann, EBU difficult to wait, and it is costly to serve different V-Nova’s Meardi adds that other technologies technology and innovation, senior manager markets with different codecs,” he says. media fundamentals and production, the While a Netflix could afford to deploy services decision to assess rival codecs to HEVC came using different codecs economically because Meardi: there is a need after it was clear that licensing issues were of its huge scale, for small and medium-sized for a codec that can lift holding up adoption, even though HEVC is players this is all but impossible, says Meardi. the quality of video on all “a fantastic codec”. “We need a next-generation codec that can devices. “The appearance of AV1 is interesting since lift up the quality of video on every device and the players involved have proclaimed it to be web browser with 100% coverage,” he says. ‘royalty-free’, and if this is true and it meets Hence the launch of Perseus Plus, which certain performance requirements it could be Meardi says distributors can combine with an such as intelligent caching are also important in interesting,” says Hoffman. He adds that, at existing baseline codec – in this case AVC/H.264 delivering bandwidth improvements. “Codecs the very least, the possibility that broadcasters – and use existing hardware decoding blocks are important but there are other elements could use an alternative technology could to decode Perseus Plus. “You can decode this that make a car work aside from the engine,” “shake up the market”, the inference being in hardware and have the fallback that if the he says. that HEVC licensing bodies would be more decoder doesn’t know Perseus Plus it can just For Meardi, next-generation codecs are likely to think again – something that appears ignore that element of the stream and still most likely to be deployed for a few specific to be happening. Hoffman said that initial decode the baseline codec,” he says. use cases where the service provider has full tests last year were done at a time when the According to Meardi, Perseus Plus can control of the decoder, but for the majority of bitstream version of the codec was not yet deliver 1080p HD video at less than 1Mbps with mass-market applications, next-generation frozen. “They are now a step further along less processing power than AVC. technologies are unlikely to gain much traction and we take further steps ourselves. The “By enabling higher quality at lower bit-rates for at least five years. interest is still there, but it is too early to say we expand the time of viewing and lower the “Even though HEVC was standardised in what the results will be,” he says. cost of delivery in terms of marginal CDN cost 2012, as of today we still have loads of non- The EBU is also focusing on whether per minute,” he says. HEVC-enabled devices that are likely to stay in AV1 can realistically be used for real-time Meardi says that V-Nova has already the ecosystem,” he says. encoding applications – something that deployed Perseus Plus with Sky in Italy on With economics driving a slowing down of the is obviously crucial for the organisation’s 12 year-old set-tops, as well as in a number frequency with which people swap or upgrade broadcaster membership. of other deployments around the world. The devices, the trend towards a multi-codec world “We don’t know yet if it could be used company has now developed a second, updated will be even more pronounced. for broadcast,” he says. While the codec is version of the technology, which it debuted at “The mobile [device] upgrade cycle is now computationally more intensive that HEVC, the NAB Show. becoming more like the upgrade cycle for this could change over a relatively short time Meardi says that Perseus Plus is one of a TVs,” he says. “I don’t believe we will see AVC as a result of further innovation. number of ways in which operators can enhance disappearing any time soon.” Hoffman says that the EBU is looking at

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Edwige Dazogbo, founder of Edwige Magazine and Edgy TV, talks about the international expansion of the multi-ethnic themed lifestyle channel.

How do you rate Edgy TV’s success since its launch, both in Canada Edgy TV both online on OTT TV, on IPTV platforms and via apps as well and internationally? as broadcast on cable pay TV platforms and satellite free-to-air, with a Our multicultural, new media o ering has international potential. We goal of reaching more than 200 millions of viewers in total. saw growth of 200% in terms of our TV viewership following the rst Our strategy is simple and successful. We have a vision and goal to launch of the channel on one operator in December – with distribution become a major popular channel in the French-language market. on three other cable or IPTV operators in Europe, on smart TV in the US and two satellite launches in just three months. There is a demand in What is the channel’s mission and what makes it unique in the female- Canada and in the international market because of the multicultural focused lifestyle space? themes of the channel. The mission is to cover the interests of the multi-ethnic market with a Through our cooperation with various networks, we have reached multicultural TV channel that celebrates the diversity of life through some of the major companies worldwide that want to work with us, lifestyle: glamour, , fashion and entertainment. It has been so we are starting to have success. Furthermore we had a number of created specially for immigrants from Asia, Africa, Latin America and mentions highlighting the existence of the channel in the media, and the West Indies, Europe, the Maghreb and the Middle East. we have worked together with advertising agencies to support sales, Edgy TV o ers a unique original concept and refreshing as well as adding more and more hours of interesting content to the programming, made purely from dreams and passions. This is content channel and producing new content in Canada. that is rare among TV content providers in the market in countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. What are your goals for the channel this year in international markets? Family and spiritual values underpin the spirit of Edgy TV. We are re- We want to join together di erent cultures’ diverse ideas of beauty, introducing this culture and these values to the world. culture and fashion. We want to create unique content, and we intend to cater to the interests of the multi-ethnic market. The channel allows What do you see as the ideal balance between global and local our advertisers to reach an international community. content, and to what extent will you seek to localise the channel in This year we aim to launch the channel in the countries we have international markets? targeted: the US, Canada, France, , Luxembourg, Switzerland, Our content is the nal product of our big international vision, and Poland, the UK, Germany, Spain, the UAE, China, India, Pakistan, includes 70% external acquisitions, with the other 30% coming from Israel, Tunisia, Benin, Senegal, Cameroon, Congo, Mali, Burkina Faso, our own local productions in France, Canada and the US. Reunion, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. We also aim to launch sub- There will be general-interest programmes, music video brands of Edgy TV: Edgy TV Music, Edgy TV France, Edgy TV India and programmes, fashion clips, lms from Nollywood, Hollywood and Edgy TV Africa. Bollywood and other ethnic-background movies, shows featuring interviews with celebrity guests, and reality shows. What is your distribution strategy for the channel, in terms of OTT We are addressing a market that is not yet saturated and where versus a liation with pay TV operators, and to what extent are you there is a strong international demand for multicultural-themed focusing on French-language markets? programming. This is a market with a high growth potential in many We started with cable and IPTV and we want to grow the presence of parts of the world.

p07 Edgy Q&A DTVE MarApr18.indd 1 22/02/2018 12:37 Technology focus > Video compression Digital TV Europe May 2018

Arris’s ME-7000: the company believes that AVC will dominate encoding for some time.

Everyone is talking about that all the time and at some point [mobile bandwidth] will become such a significant problem that something has to be done – H.266 could be a solution,” he says. Beyond mobility, 8K and wider adoption of virtual reality could serve as drivers for adoption of H.266. While UHD TV will help drive demand for new compression technologies that can help operators save bandwidth, the video distribution world is much more complex HEVC, AV1 and JEM/H.266 together to have pay TV providers that are already facing now than it was when it shifted from MPEG- “a state-of-the-art comparison” and to work commercial pressure on a number of fronts. 2 to AVC, which may have an impact on the out “if it is worth spending resources to study There is now a widespread consensus speed with which new technology will be them further”. He is hopeful the organisation that the killer ingredient for UHD is HDR adopted, and will certainly have an impact on will be able to publish a paper and possibly rather than higher resolution on its own, the complexity of the compression landscape. conduct a demonstration at this year’s IBC. but arguments about which HDR formats Video is now distributed and consumed in Arguing about which next-generation to support and scepticism about the need many more formats than ever was the case codec to adopt is academic if there is no to deliver higher resolution video in the previously, with growth consumption on compelling commercial reason to choose any first place, given the average size of TVs small mobile screens outpacing other forms of them. and the viewing habits of consumers, of video at the same time as the industry Key to any technological shift in video is a have contributed to slower than expected experiments with ever higher resolutions killer application that drives innovation. In deployment of services. aimed at super-large TV screens. the case of the existing, widely-used H.264/ Nevertheless, says Ericsson’s Jones, there is Add to that the switch from linear to non- AVC technology, that application was HD now a consensus that “there will be no UHD linear viewing, driven by SVOD and time- shifted TV – and the accompanying shift to unicast distribution and adaptive bit-rate “It is fairly unlikely there will be a single encoding – and the result is a recipe for lots of different enabling technologies to gain winner, as the HEVC installed base will be market share simultaneously. huge in 2020 when AV1 will only start to “The emergence of AV1 makes a multi- codec world a reality. As soon as AV1 devices kick in.” will be available, operators such as Netflix, Thierry Fautier, Harmonic YouTube and Amazon will have a choice about which codec to use. Netflix has been video. The need to fit more bits into existing services without HDR and no HDR services very vocal about the fact that AV1 would be its pipes, combined with the need to upgrade without UHD”. He points out that consumer codec of choice. set-top boxes and other equipment to enable adoption of UHD and HDR-capable TVs is This situation is good for the industry, as HD signals to be delivered, meant that the rising and that this will have an impact on AV1 will offer an alternative to HEVC. On industry had every incentive to adopt the new expectations about the viewing experience. the economics side, operators still need to technology to replace the less efficient MPEG- Moreover, he says, broadcasters will be forced address the HEVC installed base, which will 2 standard. For HEVC, the homologous to offer UHD and HDR services because they increase encoding and storage costs,” says application that could drive change is 4K see that their online competitors are already Fautier. “It is fairly unlikely there will be a UHD TV. However, demand – and supply offering these features. single winner, as the HEVC installed base – for UHD video has been relatively slow to For Jones, UHD is the key application that will be huge in 2020 when AV1 will only take off so far. can help drive adoption of HEVC. Further start to kick in. AV1 is being used for unicast All new video formats take time to gain the down the line, he says, other applications will delivery, but it will not work for broadcast attention of consumers, of course. But in the drive upgrades to H.266, which he does not where only one stream can be sent. In the case of UHD TV, there has been uncertainty expect to be ready for mass-market adoption latter case, HEVC is the only option.” about the advantage to consumers in terms for another five to eight years. “UHD TV will In other words, there is probably a market of the viewing experience, and uncertainty be established by them and that opportunity for all compression technologies, even if about the commitment of broadcasters and will have gone, so you have to look at mobility. some are more equal than others. l

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BCA18_MarVPAd_AdvancedTelevision_210x297_D1.inddpXX Broadcast Asia DTVE May18.indd 1 1 19/04/201819/3/18 6:23 17:35 PM Interview > Jacinto Roca, Rakuten TV Digital TV Europe May 2018

Rakuten’s home cinema revolution VOD provider Rakuten TV has big plans this year, including possible SVOD launches and an investment in movies to help push the case for getting them on the small screen faster. CEO Jacinto Roca talked exclusively with Stuart Thomson about his plans.

TV, the transactional markets. Elsewhere, says Roca, growth is company has obtained rights to the latest Rakuten video-on-demand “healthy but slower”. Hollywood releases from the majors, enabling service provider that currently operates in To boost its brand recognition across it to deliver what Roca describes as “something 12 international territories, has big plans to Europe, Rakuten TV has become sponsor of unique” in the market. In order to further expand its offering, including the launch of a top Spanish and international football club FC enhance this proposition, he says Rakuten subscription service outside of Spain for the Barcelona. TV, which has already “invested heavily” in first time and a push to create “the cinema Roca says that Rakuten TV’s distribution 4K content, is now bringing HDR to the party, experience at home” through shortening the strategy is primarily focused on the smart initially Samsung Tizen UHD HDR TVs. window between cinema distribution and the TV market. “Our main focus is strategic While the principal focus has been on appearance of movies on digital platforms. partnerships with smart TV brands and movies and transactional VOD, in Spain According to CEO Jacinto Roca, Rakuten telcos,” says Roca. “European customers can Rakuten TV also offers a subscription service TV now has over five million registered find us in the recommended sections of smart that brings family content from Disney to its users, with about 20% being active in any one TV brands and we’ve seen significant growth users for a monthly fee. year. Revenues are growing by 40% year-on- from smart TV usage.” “We think a family-focused subscription year, driven by take-up of the service in the This focus on the big TV screen rather than offering combines well with the home cinema UK market, he says. Growth is also strong mobile or laptop chimes with Roca’s vision of proposition,” says Roca. in Spain, and relatively strong in Germany ‘the cinema at home’. “Our unique proposition He says that Rakuten TV is now looking at and France thanks to the presence of its is to create the best cinema experience in launching versions of the subscription video- e-commerce giant parent, Rakuten, in those the living room,” says Roca. To this end, the on-demand service it currently provides only

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p20-21 Rakuten DTVE May18v2st.indd 20 26/04/2018 17:33 Digital TV Europe Interview > Jacinto Roca, Rakuten TV May 2018

Rakuten TV chief Jacinto Roca wants to see movies made avaialble on-demand faster.

in Spain in other markets before the end of this year. Roca says that the SVOD offering will be “family-focused” and will complement Rakuten TV’s core proposition, which is to present itself as “the cinema at home” with a strong movies-on-demand offering. “We are testing how to combine [SVOD] with the cinema at home,” he says. “We are considering a rollout in other territories for 2018, which will complement the cinema-at- does not make sense, and draws a distinction and aims to grow this to two billion by 2020. home proposition.” between movies and high-end drama series. The company’s aim is to enhance the supply The Spanish subscription service is “I wouldn’t say it makes sense to have of internet services, financial technology and anchored in Rakuten’s deal with Disney. Roca movies on an exclusive basis,” he says. “Series digital content with membership, branding says that Rakuten was open to enabling third- have multiple seasons and episodes. Movies and data. party content providers to deliver branded last two hours and people can watch them Mikitani said that Rakuten wanted to use channels on the platform internationally. and then go to a different service, so I find it social media functionality to help build what “It will have a branded channel concept,” difficult to believe that movies will work well in he described as “the biggest Grand Bazaar in says Roca, adding that third-party content an exclusive window. For us it is more about the world” – a model that differs from that partners would “contribute their brand” while getting closer to the customer and that is why of Amazon in that Rakuten will serve as a benefiting from the Rakuten platform. we have the strategy of teaming up with smart shopping mall for a range of merchants rather Roca says that Rakuten’s key vision remains TV manufacturers.” than as a retail brand in its own right. “bringing the cinema experience at home”. The company also aims to enter the For this to become a reality, he says there Japanese mobile market as an MNO. Mikitani would need to be a shift in the windowing of E-commerce giant said that owning a network, for an e-commerce on-demand rights for Hollywood and other or content business, will make sense as a movies. Rakuten TV’s parent company is a global differentiator. “We think this will be the next big revolution e-commerce giant with big plans of its own. “In Japan Rakuten is market leader and that in content. People don’t understand why they Rakuten’s chairman and CEO Hiroshi is a position that we plan to maintain and grow. need to wait three or four months [to see a ‘Mickey’ Mikitani used Mobile World Congress In Europe and the US we are building our movie],” he says. “After one month the only in Barcelona in February to unveil a series of ecosystem,” says Roca, citing the company’s winner is piracy. I see a big opportunity in initiatives to leverage blockchain technology sponsorship of FC Barcelona in Europe and moving the digital window closer to the cinema and content to build “the largest membership the Golden State Warriors basketball team in window.” community in the world” the US as key steps in this journey. “Having a Roca cites the example of Korea as a market Rakuten’s messaging app is the strong brand is the first step in that direction. where this collapsing of windows is already a company’s key content play. It has just This is why we have done those sponsorship reality, without an adverse impact on revenues. launched Viber Community, a chat space agreements.” In order to push this forwards, Rakuten is co- within the messaging app. Rakuten claims that For Roca, video is likely to play a key role investing in producing movies that it can then Viber has one billion members globally, and it in these wider plans – he cites Rakuten’s bring to its own platform. The company will now wants to connect Viber with Rakuten ID, acquisition of exclusive NBA rights in Japan as invest around €2 million this year in two or its wider e-commerce identifier, allowing it to evidence – but exactly what that role will be has three projects that will come to fruition in the promote its services across a wider base. still to be fleshed out. second half, according to Roca. Rakuten has also launched Rakuten “We don’t yet have a clear model that involves “We are going to co-invest in movie Coin, building on its existing loyalty points digital content. We know digital content is productions to accelerate the creation of this programme. The company’s aim is for its going to be a relevant block in building this reduced window between cinema and digital,” loyalty points to become a kind of virtual ecosystem, but we have not defined that yet he says. “We can build a case study to show that currency that can be exchanged across outside Japan,” he says. there is no damage as the distribution window Rakuten’s other properties. The company will In the meantime, says Roca, Rakuten TV gets closer and that the only loser will be piracy.” leverage blockchain technology to deliver on will focus on developing its “cinema at home” While investing in titles makes sense as part its vision, according to Mikitani, who said that proposition, shortening the release window for of this drive to secure better release windows, Rakuten has set the ambition of becoming VOD and ensuring that the company secures Roca is clear that building a movies-on-demand the largest membership community in the the key new releases in the best video quality service on the basis of exclusive content rights world. It currently has 1.2 billion members available. l

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p20-21 Rakuten DTVE May18v2st.indd 21 26/04/2018 17:33 Viewpoint > Stuart Thomson Digital TV Europe May 2018

“While one of the big merits of traditional pay TV was that it delivered predictable cash-flow through recurring subscription revenue, that ‘recurring’ part is a whole lot less certain in the OTT TV world.”

Subs up: broadcasters and the direct-to-consumer world

rise of subscription video-on-de- supported TV because they involve a direct lenging the greater the number of services The mand and the decline of advertis- relationship with consumers who will blame there is to choose from. Netflix and a handful ing-based broadcasting is a well-established – the broadcaster if something they are paying of other services have the marketing power and sometimes hotly contested – trend in the for isn’t working properly or if a cancellation to be perceived as ‘must-have’ offerings, but media distribution world. of the service isn’t properly processed. services with more marginal appeal are likely The impact of streaming services on tradi- Pay TV broadcasters already know about to struggle, even if the price point is relatively tional video consumption patterns has been the subscription model, but those with suf- low. The pay-back threshold could of course most strongly felt in the US. While over-the- ficient scale are diversifying into low-cost be lowered if broadcasters outsource the tech- air TV has seen uplift from cord-cutting – as direct-to-consumer offerings, meaning they nical and subscriber management aspects of Millennials combine streaming services with too need to manage a direct relationship. Dis- direct-to-consumer, but they still need to li- good old free TV rather than pay huge cable ney recently took the plunge with its launch cense content in a window that makes sense, bills – the bigger story is that changing view- of ESPN+, its new OTT TV service launched or make their own content and potentially ing habits are hitting traditional media. alongside a new version of the ESPN app. forego revenues from selling it on to third- Broadcasters are not standing still. At the ESPN has of course invested heavily in the party licensees. NAB Show in April, Steve Pruett, EVP and technology platform necessary to support its It’s also worth remembering that while one chief TV development officer at US local digital offerings through its investment in of the big merits of traditional pay TV was that broadcast giant Sinclair said that his group BAMTech. Other would-be OTT TV entrants it delivered predictable cash-flow through re- could look to develop its own virtual MVPD among players that traditionally have focused curring subscription revenue, that ‘recurring’ platform and ultimately develop a wider either on advertising, or on selling channels part is a whole lot less certain in the OTT TV SVOD offering to counter emerging challeng- to affiliates, may find the direct relationship world. Here, subscriptions can typically be es to over-the-air broadcasting. Sinclair, which more challenging. cancelled after a month, rather than after 18 has been building a national platform from They are also pitching their tents in the months or two years, and service providers which to launch new services, already offers OTT camp at a time when growth in penetra- are competing for eyeballs with multiple other a subscription service around The Tennis tion of SVOD is slowing down. Ampere Anal- providers, rather than one or two alternative Channel. However, the rise of streaming out- ysis recently published research that showed pay TV providers. fits such as DISH Networks’ Sling TV has giv- no overall penetration increase of SVOD in Which is one reason why, to paraphrase en traditional players such as Sinclair an out- the US for four consecutive quarters. Mark Twain, reports of broadcast’s death may line of how the ‘skinny bundle’ model could The Ampere research did however find that be greatly exaggerated. Another speaker at the be shaped to serve broadcasters’ interests. there is still opportunity for growth through NAB Show, Lionsgate chairman Kevin Beggs, Speaking alongside Pruett, Drew Marcus, ‘service stacking’ – the accumulation of mul- made the point that broadcast remains “an senior advisor at Guggenheim Securities, tiple, relatively low-cost subscriptions by indi- amazing business” and that, for most of the provided the context: he said that TV station vidual households – as well as room for growth shows that studios produce, “the broadcast stocks in the US were down 21% this year in international markets beyond the US. model is the most lucrative”. so far. Entertainment stocks in general were According to Ampere, the number of sub- If that is true for a studio producing script- flat, he said. However, broadcast stations were scriptions per SVOD home the US stands at ed content in the self-proclaimed golden age only trading at only 5.7 times free cash-flow, 2.79, much higher than the nearest European of drama, it is probably also true for broadcast- indicating that public markets are concerned rival Sweden. ers themselves. Broadcasters know they need about their future. While even that US number still leaves to diversify. They know that consumption Subscriptions and direct-to-consumer plays room for growth, winning a place on a house- patterns are changing. But they are unlikely to are of course more complex than advertising- hold’s subscription list will prove more chal- put all their eggs in the SVOD basket. l

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pXX Connect Tech DTVE May18.indd 1 23/04/2018 11:54 TV Connect 2018 > Preview Digital TV Europe May 2018

TV Connect: awards shortlist unveiled TV Connect is set to take place at London Olympia from May 9-10. Ahead of the event, the organisers have unveiled the shortlist for this year’s TV Connect Awards.

highly-anticipated TV Connect Awards shortlist has been The announced. Covering 10 categories, the shortlist showcases pioneering technologies that are utilised across the video landscape and celebrates the personalities behind it with the People’s Choice Award. “We’re really excited to unveil this year’s awards shortlist as we prepare for TV Connect, one of the biggest events in our calendars,” says Jackson Szabo, show manager at TV Connect. Celebrating the best-of-the-best in the connected entertainment and content delivery industries, the prestigious awards programme embraces forward-thinking ideas and solutions in areas including OTT, AI, content personalisation, immersive video experiences and more. Featuring some Last year’s winners celebrate their achievement. of the industry’s most cutting-edge visionaries, the shortlisted people, products and companies align with TV Connect’s commitment to Congratulations to everyone shortlisted.” generating effective change and new ideas industry-wide. The shortlist has been announced ahead of, TV Connect, which Szabo said: “The video distribution industry has never moved so fast. takes place on May 9-10 2018 at Olympia London. The winners will We’re seeing technology become more creative, brave, and dynamic – be announced on May 9 at the TV Connect Awards Ceremony at the so it’s only right we spotlight those driving change and celebrate them. Millennium Gloucester Hotel in South Kensington, London.l

People’s Choice Awards: Most cutting-edge encoding solution: Dom Robinson, Director and Creative Firestarter, Bitmovin Claire McHugh, CEO, Axonista Cisco Massimo Bertolotti, Chief Innovation Officer, Beamr Volker Dietzel, Senior Consultant & Advisor, Divitel Bjarne Andre Myklebust, Head of Distribution, NRK Best OTT platform service: Irina Gofman, President and CEO, Viasat World Intertrust Technologies United Cloud Breakthrough advertising technology: Simplestream Inside Secure BT Appiness NV (Commercial name Spott™) Vewd SoftAtHome Magine Stealth Micro Best in-class AI use case: Leading content discovery and personalisation platform: Bitmovin Sri Lanka Telecom Visioncom PVT Ltd Conviva Think Analytics NPAW (NIce People At Work) Kaltura Metaliquid

Most innovative in-home device: Best multiscreen service: China Telecom Smart Home Operation Center & ZTE Corporation Simplestream BT AirTies Wireless Networks CSG Netgem Soundbox GoMedia Qarva Best network optimisation implementation: Hughes Systique Excellence in content protection award: Conviva Intertrust Technologies Corporation ZTE Corporation tivù s..l. Qarva Cleeng

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p24 TV Connect Preview May18v2st.indd 24 30/04/2018 18:16 Digital TV Europe ANGA COM 2018 > Preview May 2018

ANGA COM 2018: the preview ANGA COM takes place at the Köln Messe from June 12-14. Peter Charissé, ANGA COM’s managing director, talks to Digital TV Europe about the key themes of this year’s event.

What will be the main themes of the ANGA COM Conference this year, and how do these reflect current trends in the “In the field of media, industry? In the broadband business the roll-out of gigabit networks remains on the streamed content and top list. The new German government wants to cover the whole country personalisation still seems with Gigabit speed internet by 2025 and plans to put up to 12 billion in a special fund to help supply underserved regions with fibre lines. to be the most exciting In the field of media, streamed content and personalisation still seems topic.” to be the most exciting topic. This includes time-shifted TV alongside Peter Charissé, ANGA COM recommendation engines, big data, multiscreen, OTT and voice control. The highlight of the international conference programme is the the rented floor space has been further increased. Besides all the major International CTO Panel with Arris, , , TDC market players, visitors can expect many new exhibitors, which will Group, and . In total, 16 panels in English will enrich our product range. We particularly expect many new products in focus on DOCSIS 3.1, FTTH, WiFi, OTT, HFC networks, cloud services, the field of in-home connectivity, applications and smart home. multiscreen, European copyright law, big data and TV strategies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. What do you see as the main priorities of the cable industry in Germany and internationally this year? What do you expect to be the stand-out features of the I would like to highlight two strategic questions: How will the time exhibition? schedule for the gigabit roll-out develop and how will network operators With 480 exhibitors, ANGA COM has reached a new record level. Also respond to the growing competition from OTT offerings?

The ANGA COM conference: strategy, technology and broadband

of the strategy conference agenda includes an international CTO panel featuring senior executives from TDC Group, Com Hem, Liberty Global, Vodafone Deutschland, Tele Columbus and Arris as well as sessions on streaming versus broadcast TV and EU copyright law. Day two of the ANGA COM strategy conference will includes an opening session on addressable TV and big data, featuring contributions from Google, Liberty Global, RTL Germany and others. Other sessions on day two of the event include digital cable switchover and IPTV and non-linear TV for cable and fibre network operators. Day two of the conference will also include the flagship Broadband and media Summit, featuring contributions from senior executives of Sky Deutschland, ProSiebenSat.1, Vodafone Deutschland, Unitymedia and , as well as sessions on TV strategies in EMEA, and next- generation TV services such as app-based TV, cloud TV, VR and AR. Finally Two months ahead of the event, ANGA COM has signed up a record 480 day two will feature sessions covering the broadband, next-generation exhibitors from 35 countries. Last year, 19,000 visitors, 50% of whom were market and the Internet of Things. international, attended the exhibition and conference for broadband, cable Running alongside the strategy conference will be a technology stream and satellite. covering OTT, HFC networks, fibre, Full Duplex DOCSIS, cloud services, Last year’s accompanying conference attracted 2,300 attendees, network migration and other topics. including 50% international attendees. The conference programme this The final day will be a dedicated broadband day, featuring a keynote year features 34 expert panels as well as contributions from more than 170 from the North-Rhine Westphalia minister of economics, innovation, speakers and moderators. digitisation and energy Andreas Pinkwart, followed by a range of sessions This year’s conference features a new structure and timing. Day one looking at how Germany can achieve its Gigabit society goals. l

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p25 ANGACOM Prev DTVE May18v3st.indd 25 30/04/2018 16:36 Exhibition & Conference for Broadband, Cable & Satellite Exhibition & Conference for Broadband, Cable & Satellite 12 to 14 June 2018, Cologne/Germany 12 to 14 June 2018, Cologne/Germany www.angacom.de www.angacom.de

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12 June International CTO Panel 01:00 – 02:15 p.m. | Room 1 13 June Welcoming Address * 01:00 – 01:15 p.m. | Room 1 01:00 Michael Fränkle Senior Vice President Networks & CTO, TDC Group 01:00 Thomas Braun President, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Thomas Helbo CTO, Com Hem Manuel Kohnstamm Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Liberty Global 13 June Broadband and Media Summit * 01:15 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 1 Dr. Eric Kuisch CTO, Vodafone Deutschland 01:15 Conrad Albert Group CEO and Group General Counsel, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE Bruce McClelland CEO, ARRIS Dr. Manuel Cubero Chief Commercial Offi cer, Vodafone Deutschland Ludwig Modra CTO, Tele Columbus Carsten Schmidt CEO, Sky Deutschland Moderator: Matthias Kurth Executive Chairman and Member of the Executive Committee, Cable Europe Lutz Schüler CEO, Unitymedia Dr. Dirk Wössner Member of the Board of Management for Germany, Deutsche Telekom AG 12 June * Content: TV vs. Streaming – New Content? New Cooperations? 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Claus Strunz Journalist and Moderator 03:00 Oliver Berben Managing Board TV, digital Media, Entertainment, Constantin Film AG Dr. Manuel Cubero Chief Commercial Officer, Vodafone Deutschland 13 June TV Strategies in Europe, Middle East and Africa – 02:30 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 3 Wolfgang Elsäßer Senior Vice President Business Unit TV, Telekom Deutschland GmbH 02:30 Market Update in Cooperation with Broadband TV News rk off Managing Director of Programs at RTL Television Markus Fritz Executive Vice President Commercial Development & Strategic Partnerships, Eutelsat S.A. Dr. Christoph Schneider Managing Director, Amaon Prime Video Germany Stéphane C. Goebel Vice President Platform Operations, Video Solutions, SES S.A. Moderator: Thomas Lückerath Editor-in-Chief, DWDL.de Cristian Ionescu Senior Product & Marketing Manager OTT Services, Bartosz Kajut CEO & President of the Board, VECTOR TECHNOLOGIES * 12 June Media Politics 2018: The North Rhine-Westphalia Summit 04:30 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 1 Yves Padrines Vice President, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco in cooperation with: 04:30 Tom Buhrow Director General, WDR Moderator: Julian Clover Editor, Broadband TV News / Chris Dziadul Hans Demmel Chairman of the Board, VPRT e.V. / Managing Director, n-tv Nachrichtenfernsehen GmbH Editorial Director and Chief East European Analyst, Broadband TV News Nathanael Liminski State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia * Dr. Wolf Osthaus Member of the Management Board, Unitymedia in cooperation with: 13 June NewTV: AppTV, Cloud TV, VR and AR 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Dr. Tobias Schmid Director, State Media Authority NRW 03:00 Nicole Agudo Berbel Chief Distribution Offi cer & EVP Digital Publishing, ProSieben Sat.1 Media / ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutsch land Moderator: Torsten Zarges Chief Reporter, DWDL.de Dr. Niklas Brambring CEO, International AG Dr. Marcus Dimpfel Head of Strategy and Business Development, Media Group RTL Germany 12 June EU Regulatory Update: Copyright Law 04:45 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 3 Alberto Horta Deputy Managing Director and VP Commercial Development, Discovery Networks Deutschland 04:45 Viktor Janik Vice President Regulatory Affairs, Unitymedia Peter Kerckhoff Vice President Content, Telekom Deutschland GmbH Dr. Carrie P. Krogmann Legal Department, ZDF Moderator: Dr. Marcus Englert Associate Partner, Solon Management Consulting GmbH & Co. KG Dr. Michael Müller Chief Distribution Officer, Legal & Regulatory, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in cooperation with: * Thomas Roukens Director Regulatory Affairs, 13 June New Cooperations in the Broadband Market – An Interim Result 04:30 – 05:30 p.m. | Room 1 k o Legal Advisor and Partner, Media Law Firm 04:30 Uwe Nickl Managing Director, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH Moderator: Caroline van Weede Managing Director, Cable Europe Johannes Pruchnow Representative of the Board of Management for Broadband Cooperations, Deutsche Telekom AG Jean-Pascal Roux CSO Housing Industry & Infrastructure, Tele Columbus AG 13 June Adressable TV: Television in Times of Big Data and Digital Assistants * 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Room 3 Theo Weirich Managing Director, wilhem.tel GmbH in cooperation with: 10:00 Keynote: Andre Prahl Chairman, German TV Platform / Head of the Programme Distribution Division, Media Group RTL Germany Norbert Westfal Spokesperson of the Management Board, EWE TEL GmbH and EWE Vertrieb GmbH Dr. Stefan Arbanowski Director Future Applications and Media, Fraunhofer FOKUS Moderator: Wolfgang Heer Managing Director, BUGLAS Bundesverband Glasfaseranschluss e.V. Michael Burst Media Research Expert XMM, EXARING AG * Dr. Oliver Friedrich Strategic Partner Lead for Broadcasters, Google Internet of Things & Industrie 4.0 04:30 – 05:30 p.m. | Room 3 Andreas Kösling Managing Director, EL CARTEL MEDIA Keynote: Dr. Klaus Mittelbach CEO, ZVEI – German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association John Paul Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data, Liberty Global in cooperation with: Sebastian Ackermann VP / Senior Business Manager Urban Solutions, innogy SE Thomas Wagner CEO, SevenOne Media Jackson Bond Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, relayr Moderator: Carine Lea Chardon Managing Director, German TV Platform Dr. Klaus Mittelbach CEO, ZVEI – German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association Stephan Schneider Chairman, Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf e.V. / Vodafone Deutschland in cooperation with: * 13 June o ter the tchff eore the tchff 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Prof. Dr. Jochen Vogel Professor for Media Management, Hochschule Macromedia, 10:30 Wolfgang Breuer CEO, MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH University of Applied Sciences Gerhard Mack Chief Commercial Operations Officer, Vodafone Deutschland 14 June * Dr. Michael Müller Chief Distribution Officer, Legal & Regulatory, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE Inhouse Connectivity & Smart Home 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. | Room 3 Timo Schneckenburger Managing Director Marketing and Sales, HD PLUS GmbH 10:45 Peter Bornschein Director International Sales, Corporate Projects, devolo AG Wolfgang Wagner Director Production and Technology, WDR Martin Czermin Senior Vice President B2B and Housing Industry, Unitymedia Moderator: Dr. Jörn Krieger Media Journalist Olav Fritz Manager Sales Provider, AVM Guido Schwarzfeld Head of Product Management and Marketing Controlling, CC Housing Industry, Telekom Deutschland GmbH 13 June IPTV and Replay Concepts for Cable and Fiber Networks * 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 3 Martin Vesper CEO, digitalSTROM AG 11:30 Matthias Greve CEO & Founder, ABO2 GmbH Moderator: Sebastian Artymiak Director Public Aff airs, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Christian Heinkele Managing Director, Eviso Germany GmbH, Business Partner of M Group SA Gernot Jaeger Chief Officer B2B TV Solutions, Zattoo International AG Hans Kühberger Managing Director, Ocilion IPTV Technologies GmbH Moderator: Ingo Schuchert Managing Director, Deutsche Netmarketing GmbH All conference panels in room 1 will be translated simultaneously (German/English). * All marked conference panels will take place in German.

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12 June International CTO Panel 01:00 – 02:15 p.m. | Room 1 13 June Welcoming Address * 01:00 – 01:15 p.m. | Room 1 01:00 Michael Fränkle Senior Vice President Networks & CTO, TDC Group 01:00 Thomas Braun President, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Thomas Helbo CTO, Com Hem Manuel Kohnstamm Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Liberty Global 13 June Broadband and Media Summit * 01:15 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 1 Dr. Eric Kuisch CTO, Vodafone Deutschland 01:15 Conrad Albert Group CEO and Group General Counsel, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE Bruce McClelland CEO, ARRIS Dr. Manuel Cubero Chief Commercial Offi cer, Vodafone Deutschland Ludwig Modra CTO, Tele Columbus Carsten Schmidt CEO, Sky Deutschland Moderator: Matthias Kurth Executive Chairman and Member of the Executive Committee, Cable Europe Lutz Schüler CEO, Unitymedia Dr. Dirk Wössner Member of the Board of Management for Germany, Deutsche Telekom AG 12 June * Content: TV vs. Streaming – New Content? New Cooperations? 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Claus Strunz Journalist and Moderator 03:00 Oliver Berben Managing Board TV, digital Media, Entertainment, Constantin Film AG Dr. Manuel Cubero Chief Commercial Officer, Vodafone Deutschland 13 June TV Strategies in Europe, Middle East and Africa – 02:30 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 3 Wolfgang Elsäßer Senior Vice President Business Unit TV, Telekom Deutschland GmbH 02:30 Market Update in Cooperation with Broadband TV News rk off Managing Director of Programs at RTL Television Markus Fritz Executive Vice President Commercial Development & Strategic Partnerships, Eutelsat S.A. Dr. Christoph Schneider Managing Director, Amaon Prime Video Germany Stéphane C. Goebel Vice President Platform Operations, Video Solutions, SES S.A. Moderator: Thomas Lückerath Editor-in-Chief, DWDL.de Cristian Ionescu Senior Product & Marketing Manager OTT Services, Telekom Romania Bartosz Kajut CEO & President of the Board, VECTOR TECHNOLOGIES * 12 June Media Politics 2018: The North Rhine-Westphalia Summit 04:30 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 1 Yves Padrines Vice President, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco in cooperation with: 04:30 Tom Buhrow Director General, WDR Moderator: Julian Clover Editor, Broadband TV News / Chris Dziadul Hans Demmel Chairman of the Board, VPRT e.V. / Managing Director, n-tv Nachrichtenfernsehen GmbH Editorial Director and Chief East European Analyst, Broadband TV News Nathanael Liminski State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia * Dr. Wolf Osthaus Member of the Management Board, Unitymedia in cooperation with: 13 June NewTV: AppTV, Cloud TV, VR and AR 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Dr. Tobias Schmid Director, State Media Authority NRW 03:00 Nicole Agudo Berbel Chief Distribution Offi cer & EVP Digital Publishing, ProSieben Sat.1 Media / ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutsch land Moderator: Torsten Zarges Chief Reporter, DWDL.de Dr. Niklas Brambring CEO, Zattoo International AG Dr. Marcus Dimpfel Head of Strategy and Business Development, Media Group RTL Germany 12 June EU Regulatory Update: Copyright Law 04:45 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 3 Alberto Horta Deputy Managing Director and VP Commercial Development, Discovery Networks Deutschland 04:45 Viktor Janik Vice President Regulatory Affairs, Unitymedia Peter Kerckhoff Vice President Content, Telekom Deutschland GmbH Dr. Carrie P. Krogmann Legal Department, ZDF Moderator: Dr. Marcus Englert Associate Partner, Solon Management Consulting GmbH & Co. KG Dr. Michael Müller Chief Distribution Officer, Legal & Regulatory, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in cooperation with: * Thomas Roukens Director Regulatory Affairs, Telenet 13 June New Cooperations in the Broadband Market – An Interim Result 04:30 – 05:30 p.m. | Room 1 k o Legal Advisor and Partner, Media Law Firm 04:30 Uwe Nickl Managing Director, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH Moderator: Caroline van Weede Managing Director, Cable Europe Johannes Pruchnow Representative of the Board of Management for Broadband Cooperations, Deutsche Telekom AG Jean-Pascal Roux CSO Housing Industry & Infrastructure, Tele Columbus AG 13 June Adressable TV: Television in Times of Big Data and Digital Assistants * 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Room 3 Theo Weirich Managing Director, wilhem.tel GmbH in cooperation with: 10:00 Keynote: Andre Prahl Chairman, German TV Platform / Head of the Programme Distribution Division, Media Group RTL Germany Norbert Westfal Spokesperson of the Management Board, EWE TEL GmbH and EWE Vertrieb GmbH Dr. Stefan Arbanowski Director Future Applications and Media, Fraunhofer FOKUS Moderator: Wolfgang Heer Managing Director, BUGLAS Bundesverband Glasfaseranschluss e.V. Michael Burst Media Research Expert XMM, EXARING AG * Dr. Oliver Friedrich Strategic Partner Lead for Broadcasters, Google Internet of Things & Industrie 4.0 04:30 – 05:30 p.m. | Room 3 Andreas Kösling Managing Director, EL CARTEL MEDIA Keynote: Dr. Klaus Mittelbach CEO, ZVEI – German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association John Paul Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data, Liberty Global in cooperation with: Sebastian Ackermann VP / Senior Business Manager Urban Solutions, innogy SE Thomas Wagner CEO, SevenOne Media Jackson Bond Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, relayr Moderator: Carine Lea Chardon Managing Director, German TV Platform Dr. Klaus Mittelbach CEO, ZVEI – German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association Stephan Schneider Chairman, Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf e.V. / Vodafone Deutschland in cooperation with: * 13 June o ter the tchff eore the tchff 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Prof. Dr. Jochen Vogel Professor for Media Management, Hochschule Macromedia, 10:30 Wolfgang Breuer CEO, MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH University of Applied Sciences Gerhard Mack Chief Commercial Operations Officer, Vodafone Deutschland 14 June * Dr. Michael Müller Chief Distribution Officer, Legal & Regulatory, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE Inhouse Connectivity & Smart Home 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. | Room 3 Timo Schneckenburger Managing Director Marketing and Sales, HD PLUS GmbH 10:45 Peter Bornschein Director International Sales, Corporate Projects, devolo AG Wolfgang Wagner Director Production and Technology, WDR Martin Czermin Senior Vice President B2B and Housing Industry, Unitymedia Moderator: Dr. Jörn Krieger Media Journalist Olav Fritz Manager Sales Provider, AVM Guido Schwarzfeld Head of Product Management and Marketing Controlling, CC Housing Industry, Telekom Deutschland GmbH 13 June IPTV and Replay Concepts for Cable and Fiber Networks * 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 3 Martin Vesper CEO, digitalSTROM AG 11:30 Matthias Greve CEO & Founder, ABO2 GmbH Moderator: Sebastian Artymiak Director Public Aff airs, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Christian Heinkele Managing Director, Eviso Germany GmbH, Business Partner of M Group SA Gernot Jaeger Chief Officer B2B TV Solutions, Zattoo International AG Hans Kühberger Managing Director, Ocilion IPTV Technologies GmbH Moderator: Ingo Schuchert Managing Director, Deutsche Netmarketing GmbH All conference panels in room 1 will be translated simultaneously (German/English). * All marked conference panels will take place in German.

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14 June Opening – Keynote – Dialogue * 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. | Room 1 12 June OTT – Next Steps into a New Video Era 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 2 10:00 Opening 11:00 Bringing Apps where the Viewers are: Integrating the OTT Options to Replace Satellite Distribution with B2B Streaming Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation and TV Experience Ingvar Petrov Business Development Manager, Dr. Peter Charissé Managing Director, ANGA COM / ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Jeroen Ghijsen CEO, Metrological Wilhelm Sihn Jr. GmbH & Co. KG Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Managing Virtualized Cloud Broadband and Video Processing Best Practice: Cloud-Based Playout – Automation and Self in the Headend Service as Success Factor Keynote and Dialogue Dominique De Paepe Market Director Service Provider, Markus Prahl Vice President Global IT & Network, M1 Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart Minister for Economics, Innovation, Digitaliation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Skyline Communications Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Moderator: Wim de Ketelaere CTO, Excentis * 14 June Realizing the Gigabit Society – What can and must Politics do? 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. | Room 1 HFC Networks – Review and Outlook 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 3 10:45 Timm Degenhardt CEO, Tele Columbus AG Next Generation HFC versus XPON – The Race has just started the etork rto effecte Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Martin Beck VP Sales, DCT Paul-Reimer Paulsen Key Account Manager & Regional Sales Dr. Andrea Huber Managing Director, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Demand-oriented Expansion – From a Coax to a Fiber Outlet Director, Corning Optical Communications Marcus Isermann Director of Political Interest Representation, Regulation and Federal States, Deutsche Telekom AG Holger Weinberg Head of Development & Production Dr. Tobias Miethaner Head of the Digital Society Directorate-General at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Management, braun teleCom GmbH Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Moderator: Ernst Freese Director Business Development, Teleste GmbH in cooperation with

14 June Network Expansion – Cooperation Models in Practice * 12:00 – 01:00 p.m. | Room 1 12 June Future-proofed Fiber – From the Headend to the Terminal 03:00 – 04:15 p.m. | Room 2 03:00 12:00 Dorit Bode Spokesperson of the Management Board, M-net Telekommunikations GmbH Lessons Learned from the Field with Virtual CCAP and Re- tre Proo e tc cce etork or er mote PHY Services Dr. Christoph Clément Member of the Management Board, Vodafone Deutschland Asaf Matatyaou Vice President Solutions and Product Manage- Dr. L. Alberto Campos Fellow, Cable Labs Walter Denk CEO, 1&1 Versatel ment, Cable Edge Business, Harmonic The ONT is Dead – New Developments in Fiber Terminals Uwe Nickl Managing Director, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH Anders Bloom Senior Systems Manager Broadband, HFC Dr. Gerd Thiedemann Head of Product Management, AVM Dr. Peter Selgert Director Asset Management, Primevest Capital Partners Development, Com Hem Moderator: Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Lessons Learned from Fiber Deep Implementations John Knox Principal Solutions Architect for Cable Access, Casa Systems New Installation Methods – Booster for Network Expansion? * 12:00 – 01:00 p.m. | Room 3 Moderator: Mike Thornton FSCTE, Training Chair, Society for Broadband Professionals in cooperation with Volker Braun Branch Manager Karlsruhe, Leonhard Weiss GmbH & Co. KG Paul Kempf Association Director, Administration Unit Broadband Coverage County Lrrach 12 June FDX – Status Report and Migration Paths 04:30 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 2 Bernd Thielk Managing Director, willy.tel GmbH 04:30 Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 Migration from Analog to Digital DWDM Optics in Remote Dr. Stephan Zimmermann CTO, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH John T. Chapman Fellow and CTO for the Cable Access PHY Backhauling Moderator: Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation Business Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc. Dr. Gerhard David Director Product Management, More than Speed: Unlock New Opportunities with Full Duplex BKtel communications GmbH 14 June The German “DigiNetzG” Law – Shared Installation, Shared Use, 01:30 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 1 DOCSIS 3.1 Virtual Segmentation Solution: Future of PHY Deployment Guy Ray Strategist Connected Home Division, Intel Erinc Karatoprak Product Manager, Technetix BV 01:30 End Consumer Access * Moderator: Chris Bastian Senior Vice President and CTO, ISBE in cooperation with: Friedhelm Dommermuth Head of the Department Telecommunications Regulatory Economics, Federal Network Agency Dr. Stephan Korehnke Head of Regulatory, Vodafone GmbH 13 June Cloud Services and Network Virtualization 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Room 2 Dr. Franziska Löhr Legal Department, wilhelm.tel GmbH 10:00 Dr. Mirko Paschke DG 1 - Right of the Digital Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Cloud Native Network Function Virtualization Virtualization for Any App, Any Network, Any Screen Alon Bernstein Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. Ronald Brockmann CTO, ActiveVideo Dr. Claus Wedemeier Head of Division, GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilien unternehmen e.V. erto cec et etter toer Cloud-based managed Business Services for SME: Leveraging Moderator: Dr. Andrea Huber Managing Director, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Experience via a Microservices Architecture SDN/NFV and Virtual CPE Clive Malcher SVP, Commercial, Piksel Ajay Manuja VP of Engineering, Benu Networks 14 June Public Funding vs. Commercial Roll-Out – 02:00 – 03:00 p.m. | Room 3 Moderator: Alan Breznick Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading 02:00 What is the Impact of the New Legal Framework? * ® Dr. Tobias Miethaner Head of the Digital Society Directorate-General at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure 13 June DOCSIS 3.1 and DAA – Network Migration 11:45 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. | Room 2 Dr. Wolf Osthaus Member of the Management Board, Unitymedia 11:45 DOCSIS Field Report Unitymedia with Gigabit Services fferet e e eoet to or trte Wolfram Rinner Managing Director, GasLINE Telekommunikationsnetgesellschaft deutscher Gasversorgungsunternehmen Lothar Stadelmeier Senior Architect, Access Strategy, Access Architectures David Zimmer Managing Director, inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation GmbH Liberty Global Luis Martins Head of Cable Access, EMEAR, Cisco Systems, Inc. Moderator: Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Migration Strategies for Attractive Upstream Peak Rates Virtualized Distributed Access Architectures – Cable Access Ayham Al-Banna Ph.D., Engineering Fellow, CTO Office – made to Measure Network Solutions, ARRIS Mike Gannon Lead Systems Engineer, Nokia 14 June More Fiber, Less Bureaucracy: Process Optimization for 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Reik Elftmann Director Network Strategy, Unitymedia 03:00 Market Surveys, Biddings and Permits * Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation 13 June Next Generation Multiscreen Platforms 01:30 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 2 Managing Director, envia TEL GmbH Stephan Drescher 01:30 Building a SaaS-based Cloud Video Platform – Sharing Integrating Android TV into the Pay TV Experience – A Case Timo von Lepel Managing Director, NetCologne Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH BROADBAND DAY Lessons Learned Study Approach Dr. Kay Ruge Department Head, Deutscher Landkreistag Mike McKeown Director Business Development, Mark Evensen CTO, Amino Communications GIGABIT Cisco Systems, Inc. Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Take Back Control of your OTT Service NOW! Agility, Innovation and predictable Costs – Key Value Drivers Petr Peterka CTO, Verimatrix FREE OF CHARGE for Pay TV Operators adopting Cloud-based SaaS Video Moderator: Dr. Helmut Stein Chairman PCM, DVB Project Michael McCluskey VP, Product Management, Espial The Broadband Day will take place in cooperation with

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14 June Opening – Keynote – Dialogue * 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. | Room 1 12 June OTT – Next Steps into a New Video Era 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 2 10:00 Opening 11:00 Bringing Apps where the Viewers are: Integrating the OTT Options to Replace Satellite Distribution with B2B Streaming Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation and TV Experience Ingvar Petrov Business Development Manager, Dr. Peter Charissé Managing Director, ANGA COM / ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Jeroen Ghijsen CEO, Metrological Wilhelm Sihn Jr. GmbH & Co. KG Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Managing Virtualized Cloud Broadband and Video Processing Best Practice: Cloud-Based Playout – Automation and Self in the Headend Service as Success Factor Keynote and Dialogue Dominique De Paepe Market Director Service Provider, Markus Prahl Vice President Global IT & Network, M1 Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart Minister for Economics, Innovation, Digitaliation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Skyline Communications Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Moderator: Wim de Ketelaere CTO, Excentis * 14 June Realizing the Gigabit Society – What can and must Politics do? 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. | Room 1 HFC Networks – Review and Outlook 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 3 10:45 Timm Degenhardt CEO, Tele Columbus AG Next Generation HFC versus XPON – The Race has just started the etork rto effecte Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Martin Beck VP Sales, DCT Delta Paul-Reimer Paulsen Key Account Manager & Regional Sales Dr. Andrea Huber Managing Director, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Demand-oriented Expansion – From a Coax to a Fiber Outlet Director, Corning Optical Communications Marcus Isermann Director of Political Interest Representation, Regulation and Federal States, Deutsche Telekom AG Holger Weinberg Head of Development & Production Dr. Tobias Miethaner Head of the Digital Society Directorate-General at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Management, braun teleCom GmbH Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Moderator: Ernst Freese Director Business Development, Teleste GmbH in cooperation with

14 June Network Expansion – Cooperation Models in Practice * 12:00 – 01:00 p.m. | Room 1 12 June Future-proofed Fiber – From the Headend to the Terminal 03:00 – 04:15 p.m. | Room 2 03:00 12:00 Dorit Bode Spokesperson of the Management Board, M-net Telekommunikations GmbH Lessons Learned from the Field with Virtual CCAP and Re- tre Proo e tc cce etork or er mote PHY Services Dr. Christoph Clément Member of the Management Board, Vodafone Deutschland Asaf Matatyaou Vice President Solutions and Product Manage- Dr. L. Alberto Campos Fellow, Cable Labs Walter Denk CEO, 1&1 Versatel ment, Cable Edge Business, Harmonic The ONT is Dead – New Developments in Fiber Terminals Uwe Nickl Managing Director, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH Anders Bloom Senior Systems Manager Broadband, HFC Dr. Gerd Thiedemann Head of Product Management, AVM Dr. Peter Selgert Director Asset Management, Primevest Capital Partners Development, Com Hem Moderator: Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Lessons Learned from Fiber Deep Implementations John Knox Principal Solutions Architect for Cable Access, Casa Systems New Installation Methods – Booster for Network Expansion? * 12:00 – 01:00 p.m. | Room 3 Moderator: Mike Thornton FSCTE, Training Chair, Society for Broadband Professionals in cooperation with Volker Braun Branch Manager Karlsruhe, Leonhard Weiss GmbH & Co. KG Paul Kempf Association Director, Administration Unit Broadband Coverage County Lrrach 12 June FDX – Status Report and Migration Paths 04:30 – 05:45 p.m. | Room 2 Bernd Thielk Managing Director, willy.tel GmbH 04:30 Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 Migration from Analog to Digital DWDM Optics in Remote Dr. Stephan Zimmermann CTO, Deutsche Glasfaser Holding GmbH John T. Chapman Fellow and CTO for the Cable Access PHY Backhauling Moderator: Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation Business Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc. Dr. Gerhard David Director Product Management, More than Speed: Unlock New Opportunities with Full Duplex BKtel communications GmbH 14 June The German “DigiNetzG” Law – Shared Installation, Shared Use, 01:30 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 1 DOCSIS 3.1 Virtual Segmentation Solution: Future of PHY Deployment Guy Ray Strategist Connected Home Division, Intel Erinc Karatoprak Product Manager, Technetix BV 01:30 End Consumer Access * Moderator: Chris Bastian Senior Vice President and CTO, ISBE in cooperation with: Friedhelm Dommermuth Head of the Department Telecommunications Regulatory Economics, Federal Network Agency Dr. Stephan Korehnke Head of Regulatory, Vodafone GmbH 13 June Cloud Services and Network Virtualization 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Room 2 Dr. Franziska Löhr Legal Department, wilhelm.tel GmbH 10:00 Dr. Mirko Paschke DG 1 - Right of the Digital Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Cloud Native Network Function Virtualization Virtualization for Any App, Any Network, Any Screen Alon Bernstein Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. Ronald Brockmann CTO, ActiveVideo Dr. Claus Wedemeier Head of Division, GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilien unternehmen e.V. erto cec et etter toer Cloud-based managed Business Services for SME: Leveraging Moderator: Dr. Andrea Huber Managing Director, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators Experience via a Microservices Architecture SDN/NFV and Virtual CPE Clive Malcher SVP, Commercial, Piksel Ajay Manuja VP of Engineering, Benu Networks 14 June Public Funding vs. Commercial Roll-Out – 02:00 – 03:00 p.m. | Room 3 Moderator: Alan Breznick Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading 02:00 What is the Impact of the New Legal Framework? * ® Dr. Tobias Miethaner Head of the Digital Society Directorate-General at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure 13 June DOCSIS 3.1 and DAA – Network Migration 11:45 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. | Room 2 Dr. Wolf Osthaus Member of the Management Board, Unitymedia 11:45 DOCSIS Field Report Unitymedia with Gigabit Services fferet e e eoet to or trte Wolfram Rinner Managing Director, GasLINE Telekommunikationsnetgesellschaft deutscher Gasversorgungsunternehmen Lothar Stadelmeier Senior Architect, Access Strategy, Access Architectures David Zimmer Managing Director, inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation GmbH Liberty Global Luis Martins Head of Cable Access, EMEAR, Cisco Systems, Inc. Moderator: Jürgen Grützner Managing Director, Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (VATM) Migration Strategies for Attractive Upstream Peak Rates Virtualized Distributed Access Architectures – Cable Access Ayham Al-Banna Ph.D., Engineering Fellow, CTO Office – made to Measure Network Solutions, ARRIS Mike Gannon Lead Systems Engineer, Nokia 14 June More Fiber, Less Bureaucracy: Process Optimization for 03:00 – 04:00 p.m. | Room 1 Moderator: Reik Elftmann Director Network Strategy, Unitymedia 03:00 Market Surveys, Biddings and Permits * Tim Brauckmüller Managing Director, Broadband Offi ce of the German Federation 13 June Next Generation Multiscreen Platforms 01:30 – 02:30 p.m. | Room 2 Managing Director, envia TEL GmbH Stephan Drescher 01:30 Building a SaaS-based Cloud Video Platform – Sharing Integrating Android TV into the Pay TV Experience – A Case Timo von Lepel Managing Director, NetCologne Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH BROADBAND DAY Lessons Learned Study Approach Dr. Kay Ruge Department Head, Deutscher Landkreistag Mike McKeown Director Business Development, Mark Evensen CTO, Amino Communications GIGABIT Cisco Systems, Inc. Moderator: Kerstin Stromberg-Mallmann Moderator Take Back Control of your OTT Service NOW! Agility, Innovation and predictable Costs – Key Value Drivers Petr Peterka CTO, Verimatrix FREE OF CHARGE for Pay TV Operators adopting Cloud-based SaaS Video Moderator: Dr. Helmut Stein Chairman PCM, DVB Project Michael McCluskey VP, Product Management, Espial The Broadband Day will take place in cooperation with

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13 June Big Data – Potentials and Value 03:00 – 04:15 p.m. | Room 2 03:00 Big Data in a DOCSIS 3.1 World Real-Time Visibility & Analytics to enable Actionable Brady Volpe President and CEO, The Volpe Firm and Intelligence & Network Automation Nimble This Roland Thienpont Product Marketing Manager, Nokia Using the Cloud for Managing and Analyzing Big Data securely Driving Value from Big Data in Practice Rainer Kellerhals Industry Lead Media & Cable EMEA, Jelle Tadema Sr. Director, European Sales, Guavus Microsoft Deutschland GmbH Philipp Gröne Customer Experience, Head of Project Manage- ment, Unitymedia Moderator: Hansjörg Pätz Managing Director, HSB Media GmbH

13 June DOCSIS®3.1 – New Network Options 04:45 – 06:00 p.m. | Room 2 04:45 Kck ff tererece tto roet A Converged, Multi-Service ”Mid-Mile“ Aggregation Network Dr.-Ing. Jörg Zastrau HF Engineer, Network Engineering, for Cable Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH Andrew Smith DSE and Chief Architect for Cable, Juniper DOCSIS 3.1: Utilizing Traditional Analog DWDM Transport Challenges of Video Delivery in a Distributed Architecture Paul Whittlesey Senior Director, Business Development, Arttu Purmonen Vice President, Teleste ATX Networks DOCSIS 3.1 is Becoming Reality – Practical Considerations Tim Kroll Product Management, AVM Moderator: Dr.-Ing. Jörg Zastrau HF Engineer, Network Engineering, Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH

14 June FTTH – The High-Speed Data Deployment 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Room 2 10:00 Addressing the Diverse Deployment Challenges of Gigabit Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) and X-to-the-Unit Broadband for Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) Michael Emmendorfer Vice President, Systems Engineering K Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing, ADTRAN and Architecture, ARRIS 99.99 % Availability Ultra-Broadband FTTx/H – Plan and Deploying a Fiber Deep Network at the Speed of Light Practice Kevin Bourg Optical Network Architect, Dr. Yates Yao Founder and CEO of LUSTER LightTech Group, Corning Optical Communi cations LUSTER Teraband Photonics Moderator: Paulo Valente Technology Director, Cable Europe

14 June WiFi – Use Cases, Coverage and User Experience 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 2 11:30 oectt cet or hee the Fueling a Smarter Home Experience (Home Area Network) ? Laszlo Gyalog Product Marketing Manager, Nokia Dr. Sebastian Groß Director Business Development, Managing the WiFi Experience to Deliver Revenue and Unity media Enhance Security WiFi Coverage using Existing Coax Network Infrastructures Michael DiGiorgio Director of Product Management – WiFi, Torben Flodgaard Kristensen Group Product Manager, Triax Casa Systems Moderator: Thomas Küpper Scientic & Technical Program Officer, EU Commission

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Ericsson Media Solutions will ‘continue to grow’ In Brief

Ericsson Media Solutions’ three Russell said that in broad BBC HDR first on iPlayer constituent product areas – terms, both vendors and The BBC has streamed its first compression, delivery and customers were consolidating as live event in UHD and HDR on platforms – can all continue the media business undergoes BBC iPlayer Beta. The broadcast to deliver growth following rapid transformation wrought by took place in April and was a live- completion of the acquisition of a changing viewing patterns and stream of a Rugby League match majority stake in the business by technology development. “The between the York City Knights One Equity Partners, according to gravitational forces are towards and Catalans Dragons. The BBC, company executives. “It covers everything from consolidation.” used Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) Following completion of the acquisition to contribution to At the technology level, for the broadcast, a type of HDR current ‘carve out’ process, One distribution. We have a pretty he said that there is a broad that was developed by BBC Equity Partners will be the 51% broad presence in the space,” said transformation of media R&D and Japanese broadcaster owner of the business, with Russell. workflows towards a primarily OTT NHK. All the BBC’s previous UHD Ericsson retaining a 49% stake. He said that uncertainty about all-streams approach. efforts have focused around on- “We should be through that the future of the business ahead “OTT is not a sidecar. It is the demand content. process by the end of the year. of the January deal had “some main thing. All of those workflows We will have a new name and impact” commercially, but added are being remapped around that Anevia seals Keepixo a new brand but will retain our that Ericsson had engaged with and we want to play big in that OTT and IPTV software provider relationship with Ericsson,” Mark customers to inform them about space. We have underlying assets Anevia has sealed its acquisition Russell, CTO and head of strategy, what was happening. that we will employ and we’ll of Grenoble-based compression told DTVE at the NAB Show. “We have engaged with all of look at other avenues to fill the specialist Keepixo after holders Ericsson Media Solutions will our customers and kept them portfolio out.” of over three quarters of its comprise Ericsson’s compression apprised and updated,” he said. While there is a transition to shares approved the deal at assets, media delivery including “Our customers were cloud based delivery, he said, the company’s AGM. Keepixo 2014 acquisition Fabrix Systems appreciative that we did things larger operators are likely to specialises in the development and the TV platform business openly during the process. Our build a streaming TV service but of video compression software comprising MediaRoom MediaFirst conversations with them have maintain a managed aspect to for TV operators to enable and other assets. been quite positive.” that service. live or near-live broadcasts for multiscreen TV. The company has about 150 customers Channel 4 orders Grenfell Tower VR original worldwide, including 40 tier one operators, according to Anevia. Channel 4 has commissioned its creating the animation for the film Ceire Clark, senior acquisitions In 2017, Keepixo recorded sales first virtual reality original from and the music comes from Biggi executive at All3Media of €0.9m and had 14 employees. VR studio Parable, named Grenfell: Hilmars. Meanwhile, Parable has International, said: “We’re very Anevia initially announced Our Home, as the studio moves to also signed an exclusive first-look pleased to partner with the team the acquisition of Keepixo in TV. Grenfell will be an immersive deal with distributor All3media at Parable TV in this significant March and said the move would documentary that tells the stories International. three-year deal. allow it to offer operators and of survivors of the Grenfell Tower The move underpins Parable’s “The company has already broadcasters an end-to-end fire, focusing on their lives and strategy to expand the business achieved huge success with its encoding, transcoding, storage, homes before the fire. into TV and brand content. The ambitious VR and 360 content, packaging and delivery solution The piece will premiere at three-year agreement will see building successful relationships that will meet new quality Sheffield Doc/Fest with a general All3Media partnering with Parable with key broadcasters, and we are standards like 4K HDR and release to follow this summer. 59 as it builds its factual and factual thrilled to be partnering with them HEVC. Productions are designing and entertainment TV slate. on their linear slate.”

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In Brief Imagine Communications splits business in two

Movistar+ on Amazon stick Imagine Communications is management across multiple Telefónica’s Movistar+ TV splitting its business into two Cotney: will different distribution channels service is now available on the organisations encompassing continue to be and scheduling, but customers Amazon Fire TV Stick following playout and networking CEO of both on the ad side want to be able the integration of the Movistar+ and advertising technology businesses. to blend those things and spend app on the device. Users of respectively. The ownership of the across linear and non-linear and Amazon Fire TV Sticks can company will remain as before put together linear and non-linear view the channels to which and recently appointed Tom mixed schedules,” said Bargery. they subscribe, and content on- Cotney will continue to serve as different challenges. Ad tech She said while non-linear is demand including movies, series, CEO of both businesses. is in expansion mode and we growing it is not yet generating kids shows, documentaries and Steve Reynolds, president, are looking at filling gaps in our huge revenues, meaning that other programmes. Amazon Fire playout and networking solutions portfolio through acquisitions.” broadcasters are looking for low- TV Stick owners with Movistar+ and previously CTO, will take She said that the new ad risk entry strategies. subscriptions will be able to charge of the playout arm. Sarah tech business is going to “There is a balance between download the Movistar+ app Foss, SVP and general manager, include traditional products and making the investment and not from the Amazon and Fire TV ad tech, will lead ad technology. Imagine’s OTT line including seeing an immediate return. Stick stores, after which they “Internally we pretty much non-linear ad insertion and Adding [non-linear] to the linear will be able to view content operate that way anyway,” said packaging. Previously there was platform makes it less risky and by entering their username Paula Bargery, sales director, an advertising management less costly to do it.” and password on the app. UKISA at Imagine, speaking solutions business and the OTT The Landmark airtime sales Separately, online video service to DTVE at the NAB Show. business was managed separately. system has been complemented is now also available “This is just formalising that. Non-linear advertising is by non-linear functionality so that as an OTT app on the Amazon It will take effect immediately. “the key area prompting RFPs, people can manage everything in Fire TV and Fire Stick TV devices. We see both businesses have not only in terms of rights the same system. The rollout follows Dailymotion’s launch on the Apple TV, Android TV and Xbox One platforms. launches TV service with Zappware

Xite and SpotX team up Greek alternative telco Wind look forward to growing our Personalised music channel Hellas has launched its planned business with our new attractive provider has tapped ad multi-screen TV service, Wind household propositions,” said technology provider SpotX to Vision, using technology provider Hermann Riedl, chief strategy and offer programmatic advertising Zappware’s turnkey service. digital transformation officer of to media buyers. Xite users The Android TV-based service Wind Hellas. can search for videos, create – the first such offering in Greece “Zappware was able to leverage their own music channel, watch – includes access to Netflix as well some great opportunities that curated channels and like or skip as domestic and international over the air programmes. new technologies offer: first, in videos, delivering data about channels. Wind Vision comprises “Our end-users will now be able this deployment for Wind, we preferences via Dutch cable about 60 international channels to enjoy a unique TV experience. A are combining DVB and OTT operator ’s interactive set- as well as domestic TV services smooth integration of all available in one hybrid Android TV box. tops. The resulting algorithms and premium sports offering content in a state-of-the-art video Second, by using Android TV, the are then used by SpotX to Nova Sport. Wind Vision provides solution is now available on all integration of third party content build audience segments for two packages – a family pack screens with Wind Vision. Users from e.g. Netflix and YouTube is targeted, personalised adverts, without sports for €9.90 and a full are now one click away from their done in an efficient way, resulting measurement of audience package including premium sports favourite channel, sports game in a great user experience. engagement and audience- for €24.90. or Netflix Series. Wind Vision Third, our Amazon AWS based based buying on linear TV. In The service is available to all serves set top boxes and mobile cloud back-office serves the the Netherlands this is possible Wind Hellas fixed-line subscribers. devices in Greece from Zappware’s Android TV boxes as well as the because the interactive product The company has about 600,000 cloud-based back-office. We are mobile devices with Wind’s new is available through the linear fixed customers. excited to enrich our current offer multiscreen TV service. This is a channel on the Ziggo set-top The hybrid Android/Android TV with this advanced entertainment very scalable, flexible and future- box. receiver also includes a DVB-T/T2 service, the first in Greece with proof architecture,” said Patrick tuner enabling viewers to access Android TV and Netflix. We now Vos, CEO of Zappware.

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MIPTV: VR lacking sufficient high-quality content In Brief

Virtual reality success won’t “way more” high quality content, Netia partners with ADB on happen overnight with the market contrasting the current state of the latest generation gateway still lacking a high volume of VR market to a service like Netflix, Polish service provider Netia has high-quality content, delegates at which adds films and series on a partnered with video delivery MIPTV heard in April. On a panel weekly basis. “Maybe you have a specialist ADB to deploy its VV titled ‘True VR: gearing up for an big [VR] announcement once a 5822 gateway. The platform is interactive watching experience’, month, but how can we expect our equipped with ADB’s Epicentro VR industry insiders addressed a audience to go there daily if there’s software and is designed to offer range of issues surrounding this nothing to watch?” high-performance multimedia new medium, including the hype Christina Engebak, CEO of and high-speed internet. ADB’s cycle around virtual reality and Europe for The Dream VR – a VV 5822 gateway series features the potential business models that “It [virtual reality] is a brand new producer and distributer of VR and high-speed networking through underpin it. video platform that’s launching 360º content via the Dream VR 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and Jonathan Flesher, corporate vice and we have to wait for that body app – said that while there is a lot dual radio 802.11ac/n WiFi. It also president of business development of content to be developed, so of opportunity, the key is to get big supports advanced IP-based at Baobab Studios – the VR it really is as much of a headset brands on board. telephony services. animation studio founded by adoption problem as it is a content On the topic of business models, Madagascar director Eric Darnell [problem].” Mikhaleva said that Spherica is Nagra launches new – likened the current state of the Speaking on the same panel, working as a studio for clients in digital cinema service virtual reality market to the early Alina Mikhaleva, co-founder and order to finance its own original VR Content security and TV days of radio or television. managing partner at Spherica VR content, which it plans to monetise technology specialist Nagra is “I think we’re the victims of our Studio, said: “We need to kill the directly with its audience. launching myCinema, a new own modern media,” he said. “If hype a little bit and to understand Flesher said that Baobob is service aimed at delivering you remember back when radio that VR is a completely new currently giving away its content content to cinemas in launched and when television first medium. It’s not going to happen for free, because the drop-off in partnership with owners. The launched, it was literally a few overnight.” viewership that would result from service will be headed up by hours of content per day. You had Mikhaleva argued that the charging for it at this stage makes Jean-Luc Jezouin, a former to tune in during specific hours. nascent industry needs to create it not worth it. Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel executive who is now SVP of digital TV sales development K5 invests in blockchain-based monetisation firm at Nagra. Jezouin will be supported by former, Google, Film production and financing the blockchain space for over a minimum viable product in the Youtube and Widevine executive company K5 Media Group has year, looking for companies that second quarter of 2018. Glenn Morten, VP at Nagra invested in White Rabbit, a firm can have a massive impact on the “We´re disrupting the new and member of the board of that aims to use blockchain film industry,” said Baur. “With studios’ closed server subscription the University of Southern technology to change how White Rabbit, I saw a product that model, to the benefit of California’s Entertainment viewers pay to access films and properly integrates blockchain producers, talent, investors and Technology Centre, who will look TV series. and embraces the existing fans - ensuring fair access for after strategy and solutions, and White Rabbit is a browser entertainment industry and fans films and series, competition in Bruce Eisner, president of Los plugin that recognises content in a unique way.” streaming services and diversity Angeles-based Digital Advisors being streamed peer-to-peer and Film producer Alan Milligan of content,” said Milligan. and former Dish Network and allows fans to pay the rightsholder founded White Rabbit in 2017 K5 is behind films like Paterson, CinemaNow executive, who directly, without needing to in an effort to solve “the failing a Jim Jarmusch-directed drama will be in charge of content pay for multiple streaming business model of digital that was co-financed and acquisition. Other members of subscriptions. distribution of film and television” produced by Amazon, and ANON, the team include Darcy Lorincz, K5 co-founder Daniel Baur will and to make content legally a Clive Owen-starring film that formerly of AerNow, Accenture join the White Rabbit Advisory accessible to everyone. is due to premiere Worldwide on and the BBC, who will look after Board and provide access to K5’s White Rabbit works using Netflix in May. sports and eSports, and Reza library of more than 50 films, a blockchain-powered token K5 International, a division Ackbaraly, co-founder of Quincy growing White Rabbit’s global system. The company is currently of K5 Media Group, made the Jones’ Qwest TV, in charge of content library. taking pre-sale applicants for its financial investment. Terms of the music and the arts. “I have been actively searching token sale, with plans to issue its deal were not disclosed.

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In Brief Samsung launches episodic VR ‘pilot season’

Strategy Analytics: mobile Samsung has launched an sixth pilot for a series called Bro essential for live TV services initiative called Pilot Season, which Bots. The first six-minute Mobile screens are “essential is designed to encourage the episode, entitled Bro Bots Go for live TV services” thanks to development of episodic virtual Sky High, premiered during the improved displays, faster mobile reality content for the Samsung 2018 Tribeca Film Festival as part connection speeds and more VR Video service. of Samsung’s VR Video’s Pilot generous data plans, according Pilot episodes for six original Season. Bro Bots takes place in to research outffit Strategy series have now gone live on a futuristic and Analytics. In a research report, the Samsung VR Video service The content includes: design follows two British police robots, the firm said that smartphones on Gear VR, with the content series &Design by Sibling Rivalry unlikely best friends Otis and should be prioritised as an produced using grants provided by and Curious Octopus; Sigmund Roberto, as they solve crimes alternative screen to consume Samsung. Freud-inspired The Interpretation for the NYPD. Three additional live TV services – not just a The Gear VR headset maker of Dreams by Graham Sack episodes of Bro Bots are in device for accessing content ‘on also offered the indie filmmakers and Sensorium; and futuristic production and will be released on the go.’ The report comes after the chance to use its 360 Round adventure saga Lightcatcher by the Samsung VR Video service in US online TV service Sling TV camera as part of the scheme. Occupied VR and RSA VR; the coming months. “We’re thrilled announced in February it now Samsung launched the camera in Others are: virtual Easter egg to be part of Samsung’s VR Video has 2.21 million subscribers, October and it uses 17 lenses to hunt Sam’s Surreal Gems by Pilot Season. VR continues to push more than any other dedicated capture 3D and VR content. RSA VR and Hey Wonderful; and the boundaries of the way viewers live streaming service in the Samsung said Pilot Season Voyages – Pilot, a VR animation can engage with content and US, according to Strategy builds on its efforts to expand that takes viewers from birth to we’re proud to be at the forefront Analytics, with DirecTV Now VR content offerings and drive death by Kaleidoscope. of this medium,” said David Kaskel, the closest rival at 1.2 million growth within the independent VR British virtual reality studio the CEO and founder of Breaking subscribers. Strategy Analytics filmmaker community. Breaking Fourth provided the Fourth. said that the user experience will be important in determining future growth, with services Conviva: Apple TV leads as streaming grows like and YouTube – which now also offer live TV streaming Growth in viewing time on Apple increased by 243% to account for services in the US – benefitting TV devices in the first quarter 16.5% of total hours viewed, while from having popular mobile of this year outpaced all other iOS hours viewed increased by apps. “Sling TV is losing to a devices by almost two times, 80% to account for 11.3%. much bigger competitor, Hulu, according to data analytics outfit App-based plays in general grew mainly because of Hulu’s SVOD Conviva’s All-Screen Census four times faster than browser- catalogue and history,” said Report Q1 2018. based viewing oin PCs, with the Chris Dodge, Strategy Analytics’ According to statistics from number of viewing hours on apps associate director of user Conviva’s customer base, Apple TV the first quarter over the same growing 136% year-on-year. experience strategies. “What saw a 709% increase in viewing period last year, with the total Conviva found that North really helps to drive mobile hours year-on-year in Q1. number of viewing hours reaching America continued to drive growth usage from YouTube, Hulu, and During the same period, viewing close to five billion. in internet streaming viewing to a lesser extent DirecTV, are on devices grew by 87%, That figure compares with in the quarter, reporting 174% their existing dedicated mobile while its share of total viewing 12.6 billion hours recorded for all growth in viewing hours. apps.” Chris Schreiner, Strategy time dropped by 3%. devices over the entire course of Conviva’s report noted an Analytics’ director of syndicated Apple TV accounted for 5.4% 2017, as measured by Conviva’s improvement in the quality of research said: “DirecTV built of all hours viewed, still some way 2017 OTT Streaming Market Year the streaming experience. The their new live TV streaming behind Roku’s 23.1%. Amazon Fire in Review report published in proportion of videos that failed to app outside of their pre- TV, which accounted for 5.7% of January. start in Q1 2018 was 2.34%, less existing popular app. Building hours viewed, saw year-on-year While Apple TV outpaced other than half the figure for the same from within like Hulu will be key growth of 411%. devices in terms of viewing hours, period last year. for live TV services to generate Overall, viewing hours of for mobile viewing Android grew Average bit-rates in Q1 2018 a stronger mobile presence and internet-delivered video across two and a half times faster than reached 4Mbps across all devices, ramp up their subscriber base.” mobile, connected TVs and iOS devices, according to the a 29% improvement on the same desktop screens grew by 114% in report. Android viewing hours period last year.

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On the move

Magyar Telekom between 2008 and 2010. After this Peter Nørrelund, current MTG on the board of Vivendi. Yannick has named Nunes worked at YouView and then Sport CEO, will remain with the Bolloré is chairman and CEO of Tibor Rékasi as at social TV app Beamly – a service new Modern Times Group but will advertising giant Havas Group, its CEO following that was first known as Zeebox serve as an advisor to Jensen at having previously founded the the resignation before it was rebranded. He joined the same time. At the country level, media division of the Bolloré family of previous in 2015. current MTG Norway CEO Morten investment vehicle Bolloré Group chief executive Aass becomes SVP and CEO, in 2006. Vivendi acquired Bolloré Christopher Mattheisen. Nordic Norway for Nordic Entertainment Group’s majority stake in Havas Mattheisen will leave the company Entertainment Group while Viasat Finland CEO last July, bringing about the union on July 1. He had served as CEO Group – the Mathias Norback becomes of the two and fulfilling a long-held since 2006. Rékasi has served renamed and SVP, CEO, Finland. Current MTG ambition of Vincent Bolloré. as chief commercial officer, soon-to-be split- Sweden chief Filippa Wallestam residential services at Magyar off broadcasting has already been named as SVP BT Sport has Telekom since January last year, arm of Modern and CEO of Nordic Entertainment appointed having previously served as chief Times Group (MTG) – has named Group Sweden. EE mobile sales officer and, from 2013 CEO its new management team under video and of T-Systems Hungary. Magyar CEO Anders Jensen (pictured). Set-top and content chief Telekom has also named Melinda Current CEO of MTG Denmark Kim TV technology Matt Stagg Szabó as Rékasi’s successor as Poder will become EVP and group provider as director of chief commercial officer. chief commercial officer and CEO, Amino has mobile strategy in a move that Denmark for Nordic Entertainment named Jamie highlights the growing importance AsiaSat CEO Group. Matthew Hooper, currently Mackinlay as of mobile video to the pay TV Andrew Jordan MTG EVP and group head of its new global provider. Stagg, who will report to has resigned corporate communications, VP of marketing. Mackinlay was BT Sport COO Jamie Hindlaugh, and has been becomes EVP, group head of formerly SVP of sales, marketing will be responsible for developing replaced by corporate affairs and CEO, UK with and business development at the pay TV broadcaster’s mobile Roger Tong immediate effect, responsible for ADB Global, having previously capabilities. He will continue to (pictured). the management of MTG’s and also worked for Paywizard, Orbital head EE’s strategy for delivering Jordan, who has been CEO for a subsequently Nordic Entertainment Software Group and O2. 4G and 5G networks for the media year and a half, will serve as senior Group’s UK based operations. and broadcast industries. adviser to the Hong Kong-based MTG chief strategy officer Vincent Bolloré satellite operator until October 31. Gabriel Catrina will be Nordic has stepped has Prior to becoming CEO, Tong was Entertainment Group’s EVP, group down as Vivendi appointed Jeff VP, engineering and operations and chief strategy officer and head of chairman and Ray, the former chief technical officer of AsiaSat. M&A, while Jakob Mejlhede, MTG handed over chief executive EVP and head of programming and the reins to his of education Vevo’s chief technical officer, Alex content development, will become son Yannick software Nunes, has left the company, the company’s EVP and group head (pictured). Vivendi’s supervisory company marking the music video firm’s of content. Morten Mogensen board unanimously voted Ellucian, as its CEO. Ray succeeds latest big executive departure. will remain as CEO of production Yannick Bolloré as the new group acting CEO Andy Feinberg, who Nunes’ exit comes after Vevo outfit Nice Entertainment Group, chairman following the company’s has led the company since the CEO Erik Huggers stepped down while Alexander Bastin remains shareholder meeting. Vincent departure of David Mendels last in December. Head of product head of streaming services Viaplay Bolloré, who is 67, had earlier summer. Feinberg will now revert

Mark Hall followed early this year, and Viafree. MTG SVP and head of stepped— down ´as Canal+ Group back to his role as president leaving to become vice-president of technology for Viaplay and Viafree chairman in favour of Jean- and chief operating officer. Ray product and strategy at Bandcamp. Kaj af Kleen meanwhile becomes Christophe Thiery, triggering a was most recently at Ellucian Nunes, like Huggers, is a former SVP and group CTO and product senior management mini-shuffle and before that was at software BBC staffer, having held a number officer for Nordic Entertainment that saw CEO Maxime Saada provider Ventyx. l of roles at the company, including as a whole. MTG Denmark head of take over Thiery’s former role head of media services – a role sport Kim Mikkelsen will become as president of the company’s Please email contributions to: that saw him work on the iPlayer SVP and group head of sport. directorate. Bolloré will remain [email protected]

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p35 People DTVE May18v2st.indd 35 30/04/2018 16:40 Final analysis > Kate Bulkley Digital TV Europe May 2018

“Today’s winning strategy, for all platforms, is to offer something eye- catching. As the pressure to stand out grows, telcos and regional online platforms are looking at adding premium drama to their offerings.”

Telcos join the drama club

just over a quarter of a century Pharaoh; and Stephen Kronish’s moon-land- million Alberto Rodriguez period drama La It’s since Bruce Springsteen’s song 57 ing series One Giant Leap. Peste and post nuclear disaster thriller La Channels and Nothin’ On was a huge hit. A lot Atrium’s members are not obliged to “buy” Zona, already sold to in the US. has changed in TV since then. into the projects but the club needs to put up The Movistar originals were the most Today there is a surfeit of good TV and in 60% of the budget for the projects to proceed, watched content on the platform, according particular a lot of premium episodic drama, says Fox with budgets ranging from US$5 to Domingo Corral, Telefónica’s head of orig- thanks to competition from Netflix and oth- million to US$10 million per episode. inal content, and are part of the group’s com- ers. In 2017, 500 scripted shows aired in the Atrium’s model is unique. A similar mitment to spend €70 million per year this US, up from 455 in 2016, according to a study scheme put forward by Hollywood agents year and next on original content. by FX Network. There is an episodic drama CAA was based on its members putting “We are very pleased with the results of arms race taking place and it doesn’t look to in money upfront. Electus also recently our investment in the first year,” says Corral. be slowing down. launched a consortium to co-produce un- “You cannot buy local content because there Today’s winning strategy, for all platforms, scripted content with a similar ambition, to is competition from the broadcasters so you is to offer something eye-catching. As the lower the costs for regional players to get ac- have to develop it yourself and then it can pressure to stand out grows, telcos and re- cess to high-value content. Members of 6/26 have your own flavour.” gional online platforms are looking at add- include France’s TF1, Germany’s Nitro, part The shows are intended for an SVOD ing premium drama to their offerings. One of the RTL Group, and Modern Times Group, platform, and Corral says he can take more high-profile project to the help these players the owner of DRG, Atrium’s owner. risks because different shows can appeal to compete in the episodic arena is Atrium TV, The rising costs and competition for talent different audiences. “I have a lot of respect the ‘commissioning club’ that celebrated the has spurred a lot of this activity, along with for Netflix and Amazon. They do what they first anniversary of its launch this month. the desire of media companies to get into the do very well and when you have competitors “In almost every market around the world direct-to-consumer game. MTG’s Viaplay will like this, they encourage you to be better,” he the number three player is the telco and we produce 12 episodic drama series this year says. “I’m glad they are spending money to saw that as an opportunity because they all and Jacob Andersen , group head of program- hire local talent as well.” are competing with Netflix and the local TV ing and content development, thinks there We’ll have to see what the audience data channels and they need something to stand is an appetite to double that in the next two says about the first Atrium shows, but the out,” says Jeremy Fox, chairman of Atrium, years. “The traction we get with subscribers is products will add to choice and give the club’s which is owned by Modern Times Group- amazing with original content,” he says. But backers a way to stand out against not only lo- owned distributor DRG. with the “radical changes in the business,” he cal competitors but also the global platforms. Atrium offers its 20 club members, includ- adds, content production costs have risen by Given that Netflix is commissioning more lo- ing Orange in France, Scandinavia’s Viaplay, an average of 30% over the last two years. cal productions, including 10 European pro- Telefónica in Spain, Germany’s Deutsche Tel- For telcos, accustomed to recurring reve- jects such as a football-themed drama from ekom and BT in the UK, a first-look at premi- nue streams, taking risks on content is diffi- Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and a um, multi-episode dramas it develops. cult. Commissioning clubs like Atrium can comedy series by Idris Elba, there is a lot to It’s a novel approach: the members only spread the risk, but some telcos have taken play for. An updated title for Bruce’s ballad pay for the shows they opt to buy. Atrium the plunge on their own. Telefónica has, sep- could be 57 Channels and Plenty On. l shouldered all the development costs across arately from its involvement in Atrium, com- the scripts that club members greenlit last mitted to producing 11 original dramas this Kate Bulkley is a journalist specialising October. Two projects are in the works: Quasi- year under its Movistar brand, six of which in media and telecommunications. modo, written by Life of Mars co-creator Ashley have already been made, including the €10 [email protected]

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