MIPCOM: 4KUniverse lands in Italy on Tivusat

4KUniverse will join tivùsat, the italian free satellite platform

Cannes, October 13, 2019 - 4KUniverse, the 24-hour 4K HDR general entertainment TV channel, will be soon available on the Italian free to air satellite platform tivùsat.

4KUniverse is a new general entertainment 4K HDR TV channel. Its wide-ranging UHD programming for Asian audience includes early morning airings of the children’s series, ‘Eddie is a Yeti’; daytime with vegan cooking series ‘Plant-Based by Nafsika’; primetime with ‘Model Turned Superstar’ entertainment series featuring Victoria’s Secret supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio; and late-night airings of new docufilms like the Patagonia extreme-skiing film, ‘The Empire of Winds’.

Tivùsat, which achieved more than 3.5 million active smartcards, will be proud to offer its viewers the new channel in the 4K- HDR standard featuring eye-popping visuals 4x the amount of pixels as HD, vibrant colors thanks to wcg (wide color gamut), great details, greater sense of depth and a feeling of total involvement in the content.

With 4KUniverse, the channels on tivùsat become 115, of which 50 in HD and 5 in UltraHD: 4K Universe will join Rai 4K, Eutelsat 4K1, Fashion Tv and NASA TV, all available from number 200 of tivusat’s remote control.

tivùsat is subscription free! Just requires a tivùsat certified device and a satellite dish pointed to Eutelsat Hotbird 13 ° East.

It is now available the new 4K CAM to access the 4K tivùsat’s offer with 5 channels! The 4K tivùsat smartcard is included in the 4K set-top box or CAM pack.

About Tivù

tivù, is a company jointly owned by Rai, Mediaset, Telecom Italia, Associazione TV Locali and Aeranti Corallo.

tivù, co-founder in 2014 of the Free TV Alliance, has been founded in 2008 to promote the digital terrestrial television in Italy and to launch and manage tivùsat, the first Italian free-to-air digital satellite platform covering all the Italian territory.

tivùsat, offering digital TV and radio services, gives free access to more than 100 television and 45 radio channels including 50 HD channels and a large selection of OTT interactive services.

tivù has launched in 2016 tivùon, an open horizontal app providing access to free-to-air catch-up content with a backward EPG across the 3 most important Italian broadcasters (Rai, Mediaset and La7), a complete forward EPG with detailed +7 days info and a service program guide with the whole FTA on-demand offer of the Italian TV networks, all together on the screen.

About 4KUNIVERSE

4KUNIVERSE is the first 24/7 4K HDR general entertainment TV channel in America, airing TV series, movies, documentaries, sports programming all in stunning 4K HDR resolution. The first-of-its-kind channel is available as linear television via cable/satellite and as a direct-to-consumer streaming service. For more information on 4KUNIVERSE:

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Media Contact: press@4kuniversenow.com