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The established bellwether of the tech industry, CES2024 has delivered in its usual frenetic style. Mark Mayne rounds up some of the good, the bad, and the downright left-field…

Digital terrestrial television (DTT) received a vote of confidence in its continued resistance against the growing dominance of streaming at the end of last year when its primary place in the UHF spectrum was secured for the foreseeable future.

A story about re-activating a dead woman with her unborn baby’s brain was always going to make for a strange film but if weird is what you want, Poor Things will not disappoint, writes Adrian Pennington.

With September’s bustling and future focussed IBC2023 in the bag, the international broadcast and technology bodies that own IBC fill us in on their 2023 accomplishments, insights and hopes for the industry in the coming year.

Michael Mann’s new film contrasts the frenetic action of racing sports cars with the more formal staging of Enzo Ferrari’s interpersonal rivalries and driving ambition, writes Adrian Pennington.

The year has barely started, but the tech world has already begun another annual rotation in the form of the perennial Las Vegas consumer technology launchpad, CES2024, writes Mark Mayne.

It’s no surprise that uses of AI are top of the agenda for media organisations in the next 12 months but so too is a drive to enhanced monetisation over Connected TV, mining niche sports, warnings of job ‘replacements’ and, notably, fewer calls for sustainability. Here are a selection of vendor responses for what to look for in 2024.

Soccer leads women’s sports into bidding wars, AI driven by the market, an Olympics in front of crowds and opportunities for the neurodiverse – all trends to spot in the new year, predicts Adrian Pennington.

With streamers under pressure from investors to slash costs and turn a profit the decade of rampant content spend is over. Appetite for new shows remains high however if producers can find the right project to sell them, reports Adrian Pennington.

A fireside conversation with a recent Rise Women in Broadcast Award nominee provided a host of key insights into the strategies of effective leadership that provide food for thought into 2024 and beyond, reports Mark Mayne.