Sunday, January 10, 2016

Euromedia Magazine Publishes Greenfield's "Atlantic Crossing" on Future of Television

My new article on the future of over-the-top television now available in print and online:


Luca Franchi, Sky Broadcasting VP of Tech Futures,
is  interviewed in "Atlantic Crossing" by Howard Greenfield,
© 2016 in Euromedia Magazine and Advanced Television


[excerpt]

Is Silicon Valley still a hub for foreign technology business development?

Yes! Organizations commonly develop business beyond their borders, but California’s San Francisco Bay Area is a kind of magnet where digital projects have an epic success rate including multi-billion dollar innovator start-ups like Google, Apple, HP, Facebook, LinkedIn and countless others.   
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Sky’s Luca Franchi, with the intriguing title VP, Tech Futures, lives and works out of Sky’s San Francisco office scouting new technologies to introduce to colleagues back in Europe. He has the enviable, but challenging role of surveying fresh video services developments – and identifying the truly promising ones. We spoke recently over coffee about television programming movement toward over-the-top multi-screen delivery.
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