• Multi-year contract includes playout services for UKTV’s award-winning portfolio of 10 channels, and media management for video on demand services including UKTV Play

  • Additionally Ericsson will continue to provide subtitling and audio description services

  • Contract further strengthens long-term partnership between Ericsson and UKTV, the biggest multichannel broadcaster in the UK

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that it has extended its playout, video on demand (VOD) and access services contracts with UKTV, the biggest multichannel broadcaster in the UK.

Ericsson will continue to deliver playout services for UKTV’s award-winning portfolio of 10 channels including Dave, the UK’s most watched non-public service broadcasting channel; premium entertainment channel W; free-to-air channels Really, Yesterday and Home; and Gold, Alibi, Drama, Eden and Good Food.

Ericsson will also continue to provide media management services for UKTV’s on-demand services including UKTV Play, as well as the delivery of VOD content to other TV platforms and VOD aggregation services such as Sky, Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk.

As part of the new multi-year contract, Ericsson will migrate UKTV’s VOD preparation services to Ericsson’s end-to-end Package and Deliver managed service, which is powered by Ericsson’s cloud media processing service platform. Designed as a smart resource engine, the service platform utilizes cloud-based tools to deliver highly resilient, secure and flexible non-linear contribution, archiving and media processing. These services can deliver unparalleled scalability, flexibility and elasticity to broadcasters, TV platforms and content owners, while minimizing the upfront costs often associated with traditional on-premise hardware infrastructure.

Ericsson has also extended its access services contract with UKTV, which includes the provision of subtitling and audio description services across UKTV’s portfolio of content.

For further information, please refer here.

Ericsson Corporate Communications
Phone: +46 10 719 69 92
E-mail: media.relations@ericsson.com

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