3. Czech TV: Distribution Channels
• Terrestrial
• Satellite
• Cable
• IPTV
• Internet Video-Streaming
OTT Services
Broadband
One source of content to many distribution channels
DTT
56%
IPTV
2%
Cable
17%
Satellite
25%
DTT is available for
99,5% Czech households
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4. ČT 1 (HD) is a family-oriented channel showing original Czech
movies, series, entertainment and lifestyle.
ČT 2 (HD) broadcasts documentaries, nature-oriented shows
and foreign films and series.
ČT 24 is a 24-hour news channel offering hot news and
extended economic, regional and cultural news.
ČT sport (HD) broadcasts world, European and Czech sports
events.
ČT :D is a children's educational channel, launched on
31.8.2013. Broadcasts from 6am until 8pm.
ČT art is a channel focusing on culture, theater, operas, music,
art films, launched 31. 8. 2013. Broadcasts from 8pm until late
night.
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Czech TV: Main OTT services
iVysílání – complex video-archive of Czech TV + live streaming + simulcasting
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decko.cz
website as an extension and interactive superstructure
of the children’s channel Déčko
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Czech TV: iVysílání – video on demand
● Free of charge
● Successful extension of the content
● Available on wide variety of platforms and devices
● Targets younger audience than regular TV broadcast
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iVysílání - highlights
● Unique amount of content - 85.000 hours of recording (and counting)
● Player: 3 hours timeshift + preview track
● Closed captions - for hearing impaired, audiodescription – for visual impaired
● Performance peaks during big sport events – record: 36 mio views/month
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10. Czech TV: HbbTV leader in the Czech Republic
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● 17 applications in 2 years
● Easy, and comfortable controlling
● Using of the well-known and preferred TV controlling for the internet content
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HbbTV – new trends and plans
● Improvement in UX (user-friendliness) of the applications
● Implementation of the new technical elements
● Extension of the content in connection to Czech TV broadcast
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Czech TV: Decko.cz – website for kids
● Information about programs
● Interactive games
● Video archive
● Surveys, voting, competitions
● Web page for pre-schoolers
● Special projects (virtual Advent calendar, summer competition, etc.)
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Decko.cz – connected with broadcast
● All projects closely connected to the program
● Some projects developed for HbbTV
● The main goal for the present - mobile applications
● Bonuses related to the TV programme, but accesible primarily on the web
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14. Mobile applications
• Sport channel - ČT sport
• News channel - ČT 24
• iVysílání – iPlayer
• More than 1 300 000 downloads
• Next step: full support of responsive web design
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15. Web portals
www.ceskatelevize.cz
Main portal acts as umbrella and steer traffic to other
portals:
• Sports
• News
• Kids website
• ČT art
Highlights (Feb 2014):
2 000 000 Unique visitors
36 000 000 video streams played
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16. Facebook - most common social network in CZ
• FB profiles for TV channels and key prime-time projects
• FB - promotional channel for younger audience
• FB - not publishing channel
Twitter accounts only for main TV channels
YouTube - place for short promotional clips
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Czech TV: Social networks
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17. Thank you for your attention.
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Petr Dvorak (petr.dvorak@ceskatelevize.cz)
Director General
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Editor's Notes
I-vysílání – based on catch-up service – programs are added after they have been broadcasted (since 2000)
Unique amount of content: more than 85.000 hours of recording is accessible at the present (which means almost 10 years of nonstop watching)
Player: timeshift function – possibility to shift back up to 3 hours while watching live broadcast.
Preview track – easy orientation on the timeline thanks to the preview pictures
High capacity of services: the biggest interest of users is during big sport events, during the Olympics games we registered almost 300.000 users connected at the same time. In February 2014 (thanks to the Olympics games) the highest amount of views (36 mio) were registered.
Czech TV is the HbbTV market leader in the Czech Republic
Offers not only VOD applications but also multimedia (including videos, photographs and wide informational service)
Most popular are special projects for main programs and sport events (e.g. FIFA World Cup 2014 application)
The application is easy to control (the user controls it from the distance - “from the sofa” - and it is accessible on a big screen) – the main attributes leading to a positive change of behavior
The application is not only for the specific generation but it is used equally by all the generations
Technical perspectives of the future development are: easier and more targeted navigation, live streaming, timeshift, implementation of QR codes for connection with mobile devices
Plans for content extension are programme highlights projects (such as Star Dance, Panorama), more connections to the Czech TV broadcast (news application ČT24, weather application Počasí etc.), and bonus broadcast (live streaming)
decko.cz was launched simultaneously with the new kids channel 31.8.2013 as it’s extension and interactive superstructure
From the begining the web has been intended to be:
Safe - the web is designed in such a way that children would not be able - and primarily would not want to - leave it, go to wilder, more dangerous parts of the internet
Trustworthy for the parents - the parents have to be sure that our website playground is completely safe and kids will spend their time usefully
Ad-free - there is no advertisement on the website
Quality in form and content – co-working with the best Czech designers, painters, writers and actors
Apart from interactive – mostly educational – games connected to programmes there are many special interactive projects and complex video-archive of the Déčko channel. All these project has soon gained a high visit rate that confirms a big interest not only of kids but often of teachers and parents
All projects are closely connected to the programmes - both in form and in content: the projects (games and other interactivities) use the same actors, designers, music, etc. as the programmes to which they are related.
Web uses the TV information and content – but also TV works with the web information (e.g. results of the online voting related to the programmes or kids ask questions though web and receive answers through the programme)
Two applications for HbbTV were developed – the video archive of the kids channel and a video quiz Ábécédéčko – and more will follow
Mobile applications will start with the ones for the preschoolers – educational applications teaching Maths and alphabets.
Bonuses (e.g. videos, photographs, animations) produced by a web department are nowadays used mainly on the web. The plan is however to reuse them in the programmes as well