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Euromedia Editorial Calendar January / February The MENA market. Regional expert Chris Forrester brings his latest annual update on this complex but important market. Sovereign funds are major players in all areas including sport rights and studio and play- out facilities. Meantime, media is inseparable from complicated regional politics with the isolation of Qatar, and the wholesale piracy of its content a prime example. Pay-TV is now beginning to power forward and significant investment in content and content production facilities continues. Preview: CabSat MENA (Dubai) March / April The deployment of 5G has the capacity to be a whole new disruptor for the broadcast business. It will mean new opportunities for media on the move this will, once again, potentially refashion the relationship between content providers and content consumers. Preview: NAB (Las Vegas) May / June D2C: Direct to Consumer was the main headline of 2019 with many global players bringing their propositions to market. How is the sector shaking down? With so many services on offer and so much content within each service, is too much choice weighing on the consumer? Does the quality and functionality of each service’s discovery application make a competitive difference? Will aggregation and unified UIs emerge? Preview: ANGA (Cologne) July / August CPE & Smart Home Survey July / August CPE & Smart Home Survey The annual survey examines the evolving world of CPE. Most providers are shifting CPE workload to the cloud, but there is still much to play for in perfecting the balance of what should continue to run on the CPE to provide the ideal service mix – both media and smart home. Preview: IBC (Amsterdam) September / October Events – such as the Olympics – are still at the heart of live broadcast propositions. Will this year’s see UHD turn the consumer corner? Beyond UHD can technology – including AI – be deployed to bring a more immersive experience that will capture and develop an audience raised in the social media and gaming era? November / December Annual Test & Monitor Survey. Test & Monitor is in the frontline of preserving consumer QoE and shielding the provider from avoidable Opex and Capex. In TV Everywhere and OTT provision there are so many touch points how can a T&M provider ensure the quality of an operator’s service?