Advanced Television

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Advanced TelevisionVideoFox closes Roku deal Fox has announced the completion of its acquisition of US streaming specialist Roku. The deal, valued at £22 billion (€19.7bn), was first announced in June, and wasn’t anticipated to close until H1…

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Advanced TelevisionVideoItaly plans broadcasting reforms Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom) has launched a public consultation that outlines proposals for reforms of the country’s broadcasting sector.

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Advanced TelevisionVideoITVX outperforms 2025 FY inside 10 months ITV has reported that its ITVX streaming service has officially surpassed its entire 2025 full-year streaming total in just ten months after hitting 3.6 billion streams on October 30th.

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Advanced TelevisionVideoSky expands Real Time viewing to Sky Sports channels Sky has announced that it is expanding Real Time viewing to all Sky Sports channels on Sky Glass and Sky Stream.

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Advanced TelevisionVideoLa Séptima debuts with 2.8% audience share in Spain Spain’s new FTA TV channel La Séptima has made a promising start, securing a 2.8 per cent audience share on its first day of broadcasting on November 5th, according to data from audience measurement…

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Advanced TelevisionVideoSurvey: Mobile bookmarking common whilst watching TV Research commissioned by Adwave, the self-serve advertising platform, shows that reaching for a phone while watching streaming TV is no longer a sign of a lost commercial break.

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Advanced TelevisionVideoTAC calls for Welsh broadcasting safeguards TAC (Teledwyr Annibynnol Cymru), the trade body representing independent television production companies in Wales, has called for greater protection of Welsh broadcasting in both English and Welsh…

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Advanced TelevisionVideoStudy: UK ranked fourth for AI readiness Britain has beaten Canada, India and New Zealand to finish fourth in a new ranking of the Commonwealth countries best placed to help young people benefit from artificial intelligence – with the…

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Advanced TelevisionVideoSpain: RTVE Play marks 5 years with record month Spain’s RTVE Play streaming service has reported a new audience record and achieved the best month of October in its history with more than 12 million unique users – 26.2 per cent more than in…

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Advanced TelevisionVideoSES guarantees launches SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh told analysts in his post-results Q3 conference call that it had secured firm launch contracts covering seven geostationary satellites, 28 MEO satellites (four launches each…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo