As the four main US mobile carriers – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon – continue to jockey for position based on price, video streaming has emerged as an important differentiator.

Consumers in the US continue to show exceptionally strong interest in so-called next-gen television service (also known as ATSC 3.0), which offers the same programming as existing free live over-the-air TV (such as local news, live sports, programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and other broadcast networks), but adds advanced streaming-type features.

Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentina SA (Artear) is using Telestream Vantage Transcode Pro to automate the transcoding and processing of media moving into and out of its Avid editing, storage and asset management systems.

Regional Minnesota-based ISP Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) has tapped Broadpeak and Inca Networks to deploy a scalable IP video delivery solution.

Renovation expert Jonathan Knight, best known as a member of the Boy-band New Kids on the Block, will take fans step-by-step when he restores a centuries-old New England farmhouse in a new HGTV pilot for US television, Farmhouse Fixer.

Aiming to find the next Grange Hill, Peppa Pig and Byker Grove, the UK government has announced a major initiative to search for the next big thing in UK kids TV.

Netflix is localising its Indonesian service with a Bahasa Indonesia user interface and subtitles, along with new Indonesian content from 19 October.