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Tuesday 29 September 2026 3 min 7 stories

AMTC News — 29 Sep 2026 (EN)

Today's briefing: Paramount raises $44.4bn for Warner Bros Discovery bid · Arqiva backs UK terrestrial television until 2044 · Indonesia tests direct television to phones over 5G Broadcast · Netflix deploys 80 Sony cameras for Wonka series.

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AMTC News — 29 Sep 2026 (EN)

In this briefing

media finance

Paramount raises $44.4bn for Warner Bros Discovery bid

Paramount plans a forty-four-point-four-billion-dollar bond offering to help finance its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery alongside cash and term loans.

terrestrial television

Arqiva backs UK terrestrial television until 2044

Arqiva recommends keeping Britain's digital terrestrial television network operating until twenty forty-four instead of forcing viewers toward internet-only delivery sooner.

Source broadbandtvnews.com (opens in a new tab)
mobile broadcasting

Indonesia tests direct television to phones over 5G Broadcast

Indonesia's public broadcaster TVRI has begun testing direct television delivery to mobile phones using 5G Broadcast technology in the capital Jakarta.

Source broadbandtvnews.com (opens in a new tab)
production technology

Netflix deploys 80 Sony cameras for Wonka series

Netflix's Wonka reality series used eighty Sony cameras, including thirty cinema-style remote units and fifty broadcast pan-tilt-zoom cameras across production.

Source tvbeurope.com (opens in a new tab)
vertical video

Neighbours returns as a vertical mobile series

Fremantle and RoseBerry are transforming archived Neighbours storylines into vertical-native mobile episodes using an AI-assisted production workflow called RedSnapper.

broadband infrastructure

Ziggo completes large-scale DOCSIS 4.0 deployment

Aurora Networks and Ziggo have completed Europe's first large-scale unified DOCSIS four-point-zero node deployment inside an operating broadband network.

Source broadbandtvnews.com (opens in a new tab)
viewer behaviour

80% of UK television owners stream

A UK survey finds eighty percent of television owners stream films or programmes, compared with sixty-four percent who watch live broadcasts.

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Full transcript
Arkiva recommends keeping Britain's digital terrestrial television network operating until 2044, instead of forcing viewers toward internet-only deliveries sooner.