TV companies around the world celebrate World Television Day on 21 November to remind us of the attention-grabbing power that Total TV holds.

Illegal downloading of video content in the Czech Republic has increased 160 percent year-on-year this year, according to Axocom.

This year is likely to be another growth year for the country's biggest commercial broadcaster, but there are a number of uncertainties on the horizon: rising production costs for series, a looming recession and the unpredictable development of the war in Ukraine. What are the tasks, that will be Nova facing this year? Read interview with Jan Vlček, TV Nova CEO.

Television groups Nova, Prima and Óčko, through AKTV, entered into a cooperation agreement with I&Q Group, relating to content sharing platforms on the domains Hellshare.cz, Hellspy.cz and Hellspy.sk. This agreement regulates the conditions for the application of automatic filters in content search and upload.

Media Club deploys artificial intelligence to optimise TV campaigns. This enables it to better tailor client campaigns to 25 defined target groups.

The autumn conference of AKTV will take place on 22th of November 2022 iand will be co-hosted by the Slovak ATVS. The main item on the agenda will be the first ever research conducted for AKTV, namely the czech edition of the Track the Success study.

The HbbTV Association is proud to announce the shortlists of entries nominated for the HbbTV Awards 2022, showcasing and celebrating excellence in the HbbTV community.

Tickets are ready to buy. Symposium will focus on Targeted Advertising, DVB-I and new HbbTV services. More about conference programm on the web pages.

Representatives of the APA, ASAF, TV Nova and FTV Prima signed a Memorandum on further joint action following the implementation of the European Audiovisual Services Directive.

Linear TV is still a key source of revenue and profits for broadcasters despite the rise of video-on-demand (VOD) services. This was one of the key topics of  Innovation Day conference.

All monitored media types showed year-on-year growth in monitored media investment in this year's eighth month. To date, advertising investment in media is up 12 per cent on last year.

TVBEurope speaks to a number of vendors to find out how they are preparing for the price rises, and what impact they think it will have on the broadcast industry as a whole.