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The BBC is to broadcast in Ultra High Definition (UHD) from the Glastonbury Festival this summer, marking the first time it has broadcast any music event in UHD.

AVOD revenues for TV series and movies will reach $70 billion in 2027, up from $33 billion in 2021, according to a study by Digital TV Research

With the 33rd summer Olympics set to take place in Tokyo later this month, broadcasters around the world are fine-tuning their production plans and preparing to pack their schedules with hundreds of hours of live sport. NBC and the BBC speak about their plans.

ChyronHego’s Tracab team in Sweden has demonstrated powerful new capabilities in Tracab OCT (Offside Calling Technology) to FIFA, as the sports organisation moves towards using semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup.

The UK parliament voted last week to allow some Huawei equipment in 5G deployments despite the US issuing warnings of the threat, but how much of a risk is Huawei?

• Sky Sports targets new audiences for women’s sport in 2020 • Live women’s sport to be showcased to brand new audiences via Sky Sports YouTube channel • Sky Sports to invest in more new, original, women’s sport digital content and programming

The “largest purpose-built film studio” in the UK has been announced by US facilities firm Blackhall Studios which says the development could bring 3,000 new jobs to Reading.

Online piracy costs US almost $30bn a year, according to Chamber of Commerce. Pirated videos viewed over 200bn times in 2018. Piracy results in up to 560,000 industry job losses.

• Standfirst: TV broadcasters in US lead next-gen TV offering • Next-gen TV in top 40 US markets by end of 2020 • FCC commissioner hails ATSC 3.0 as “transformative”

Coverage of the UEFA Champions League Final is set to be another UHD and VR 360 spectacular, while chances seem high that the BBC will commit to UHD HDR live streaming of FIFA World Cup in Russia.