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Multi-year contract includes playout services
for UKTV's award-winning portfolio of 10 channels, and media
management for video on demand services including UKTV Play
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Additionally Ericsson will continue to provide
subtitling and audio description services
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Contract further strengthens long-term
partnership between Ericsson and UKTV, the biggest multichannel
broadcaster in the UK
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that it
has extended its playout, video on demand (VOD) and access services
contracts with UKTV, the biggest multichannel broadcaster in the
UK.
Ericsson will continue to deliver playout services
for UKTV's award-winning portfolio of 10 channels including Dave,
the UK's most watched non-public service broadcasting channel;
premium entertainment channel W; free-to-air channels Really,
Yesterday and Home; and Gold, Alibi, Drama, Eden and Good Food.
Ericsson will also continue to provide media
management services for UKTV's on-demand services including UKTV
Play, as well as the delivery of VOD content to other TV platforms
and VOD aggregation services such as Sky, Virgin Media, BT and
TalkTalk.
As part of the new multi-year contract, Ericsson
will migrate UKTV's VOD preparation services to Ericsson's
end-to-end Package and Deliver managed service, which is powered by
Ericsson's cloud media processing service platform. Designed as a
smart resource engine, the service platform utilizes cloud-based
tools to deliver highly resilient, secure and flexible non-linear
contribution, archiving and media processing. These services can
deliver unparalleled scalability, flexibility and elasticity to
broadcasters, TV platforms and content owners, while minimizing the
upfront costs often associated with traditional on-premise hardware
infrastructure.
Ericsson has also extended its access services
contract with UKTV, which includes the provision of subtitling and
audio description services across UKTV's portfolio of content.
Sinead Greenaway, Director of Technology and
Operations, UKTV, says: "We are delighted to be continuing our
long-standing relationship with Ericsson and look forward to
working closely with them as we develop new services to harness
opportunities offered through IP and cloud-based service provision.
The imminent migration to Package and Deliver VOD services is
testament to our successful partnership with Ericsson and our
shared commitment to innovation."
Thorsten Sauer, Head of Broadcast and Media
Services, Ericsson, says: "We are proud that UKTV has chosen to
continue working with Ericsson on these critical broadcast
services. This is an important contract for Ericsson and underlines
our ability to provide world-class broadcast and media services, as
well as the quality and expertise of our talented team. We look
forward to strengthening our relationship further and helping UKTV
to provide their audiences with the very best TV experience
anytime, anywhere for years to come."
Ericsson is one of the leading global providers of
broadcast and media services, and has worked with some of the
world's most well-known broadcasters, platforms and content
producers, including BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT Sport, ITV, FOX,
DreamWorks, Liberty Global, NPO, Canal+, NOS, Bonnier Group, Sky,
HBO, TV5 Monde and France 24.
Every year, Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services
distributes more than 2.7 million hours of programming in more than
90 languages for more than 500 TV channels worldwide. Ericsson's
global content discovery portfolio spans more than 10 million
movies and program titles covering over 35 languages. Globally more
than 200 million people interact with Ericsson's rich metadata each
week. In addition, Ericsson provides over 230,000 hours of
subtitling each year - more than 100,000 hours of which is
live.
More information about Ericsson's Broadcast and
Media Services portfolio can be found here.
UKTV is an independent commercial joint venture
between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About UKTV
UKTV is the biggest multichannel broadcaster in
the UK.
The award-winning independent has eleven
imaginative brands - UKTV Play, Dave, W, Gold, Alibi, Yesterday,
Drama, Really, Home, Eden and Good Food. These include the two most
popular non-PSB channels in the UK and account for 9.31% of the
British commercial TV market. The company's most recent financial
results showed record-breaking year-end revenue of £319m and EBITDA
of £82m. It invested £148m in programming and related launches last
year, and is becoming an increasingly significant investor in UK
creativity.
UKTV has a truly innovative model, curating
brand-defining commissions, high-profile acquisitions and the very
best of BBC, alongside programmes originally shown on ITV and
Channel 4. The network embraces technology to deliver inspired
channels to audiences through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT,
TalkTalk, YouView, Freesat, Amazon Fire and UKTV Play, and
distributes its highly valued original programmes to 200
territories.
Now celebrating its 23rd year at the forefront of
digital television, UKTV - an independent commercial joint venture
between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI)
- is proud to be the only British television broadcaster in The
Sunday Times top 100 companies list.
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With approximately 115,000
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