Paris, France – February 10th, 2021 – DOTSCREEN, the multi-screen video applications & UI specialist, today announced the renewal of its multi-year contract with Media Broadcast in regards to the evolution, support and maintenance of HbbTV freenet TV portal in Germany.
Back in 2016, DOTSCREEN has designed and developed the front-end and associated backend of the freenet TV portal. Then, the company has successfully maintained and enhanced the HbbTV solution for the last four years. Today, DOTSCREEN and Media Broadcast has jointly decided to renew such relationship.
Headquartered in Paris, DOTSCREEN is one of the most experienced developer of HbbTV applications. The company has already been working for Fransat in France and Freesat in the UK, two other European pay TV operators using the HbbTV technology. Other HbbTV customers of DOTSCREEN include ARTE and France24 in Europe, Mediaset in Spain, TF1 in France, SVT in Sweden, and ERT in Greece.
ABOUT DOTSCREEN:
DOTSCREEN designs and develops multi-screen applications & UI (available on smart TV, TV set-top boxes, game consoles, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, connected refrigerators, etc.) for major media, telecommunication and electronics companies (Disney, HBO, ESPN, Fox, CBS, Disney, Starz, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, Freenet, TF1, Beinsports, Mediaset…). The company also licenses its own, off-the-shelf UI & applications (TV Everywhere, VOD/SVOD, EPG, weather, radio, etc.).
ABOUT MEDIA BROADCAST:
Media Broadcast is part of the freenet Group; as Germany’s largest service provider for the broadcasting and media industry, it is your partner for digitalization. The company plans, sets up and operates multimedia transmission platforms for TV and radio on the basis of modern station, cable and satellite networks. Media Broadcast is the market leader in DAB+ and DVB-T2 HD and markets the freenet TV platform; in addition, it has a shareholding in Antenne Deutschland, the nation-wide DAB+ platform operator.
The company also connects broadcasters with its high-availability fibre optic network and realises productions and broadcasts of live events for TV stations and companies. The company’s headquarters are located in Cologne, Germany. There are several hundred service employees deployed across the country.
