YouView
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UKTV Play harnesses AI to provide increased personalisation
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The broadcaster says it’s deploying machine learning and algorithm adjustments to offer increased personalisation, the addition of the broadcaster’s Home channel and synchronised viewing history and favourites across devices.
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YouView names its Director of Product as new CEO
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Susie Buckridge has worked at the company for the past 8 years, having joined from the BBC where she served as Head of Strategy in Future Media and then in the Business Strategy team. Previously she worked as a consultant at Cap Gemini and Ernst and Young.
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Planet Knowledge and Sports Channel Network launch on YouView
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Sports Channel Network offers free and HD coverage of football, golf, fishing, equestrian, winter sports, surfing, motorsport and formula E, while Planet Knowledge offers viewers hundreds of hours of free-to-air premium factual documentaries covering history, nature, science, people and travel.
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Amazon Prime Video is now available on BT TV’s 4K set top boxes
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The two firms confirmed their tie-up, which makes BT the first UK pay-TV provider to offer both Netflix and Prime Video on the same box, earlier this year and users of BT’s non-4K boxes have had access to Prime since June.
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BBC to launch HD versions of BBC Two in Wales and Northern Ireland
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A new High Definition version of BBC Two Wales is to launch next month on Sky, Freesat and digital terrestrial (Freeview and YouView), along with a new BBC Two Northern Ireland HD channel which will launch on digital terrestrial.
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UKTV Play is now available on Samsung smart TVs
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The show offers thousands of hours of ad-supported free catch-up and on-demand content, including box-sets, previews of new shows and exclusive content. Highlights this month include the full series of brand-new Judge Romesh and premieres of Dr Christian Will See You Now and Inside the Ambulance which, until now, have only been available to pay…