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Building a digital content platform for Botswana's creative ambitions

TM Forum

When in 2021 BoFiNet (Botswana Fiber Networks) was hiring a manager for its new digital content platform, UpicTV, it looked beyond the telecoms industry for someone that reflects its – and Botswana’s – ambitions for its creative industries. UpicTV has also been negotiating the film rights to books by a local author.

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How Amazon landed a key role in ‘Nomadland,’ in which film’s star does real fulfillment center work

GeekWire

If a film was going to capture the modern American landscape authentically, it’s hard to imagine doing so without including Amazon’s vast fulfillment operations as a supporting character. In the film, Fern is shown taking part in a pre-shift safety meeting, packaging goods and taping boxes, and picking product from a robotic cart.

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HBO Max will soon begin streaming US soccer matches

The Verge

HBO Max is adding more sports coverage to its programming slate. It also makes HBO Max a service just as much for sports fans as it is for film and TV enthusiasts, where it needs to improve to take on Netflix (which continues to avoid live sports even as its prices climb ever higher ). Photo by Erin Chang/ISI Photos/Getty Images.

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With the Olympics over, Peacock needs to figure out what’s next

The Verge

Peacock’s content offering and its original strategy look like a broadcast network.”. Peacock very much acts like a broadcast network offering users more of the content they might expect to watch on NBC. Peacock’s content offering and its original strategy look like a broadcast network,” Broughton told The Verge.

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HBO Max is the streaming service for me

The Verge

It also has a ton of films: you can go from Hammer horror to Studio Ghibli to Yojimbo to The Talented Mr. Ripley and back to 13 Going On 30 , all in the same day. It’s the rare network that makes shows that feel like they couldn’t exist anywhere else. Streaming services, however, are not networks.

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Plex’s free TV service gets 15 new channels

The Verge

Plex originally launched the free TV feature last year as a collection of pre-programmed, continuous channels rather than traditional over-the-air streams. IFC Films Picks, IGN, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, Cheddar News, Newsy, and FuboTV Sports Network are among the more notable channels already offered.

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ViacomCBS wants to prove to skeptics it finally understands streaming

The Verge

The revamped streamer will carry live sports (including NFL games that air on CBS), live news, and thousands of films and TV shows from its networks. Those include Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, and both current and library programming from CBS. We can’t keep all that for ourselves. It doesn’t make sense. It’s too much”.

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