Orange added 65,000 subscribers to IPTV and satellite TV services in France during Q4 2019 to total 7.27 million, making it 226,000 gains for the year. Broadband customers increased by 200,000 year on year to a base of 11.66 million. German public broadcaster ARD will drop satellite delivery of SD TV channels by January 2021, saving it a pretty penny. In the same breath, ARD announced the addition of a replay TV function to set tops and smart TVs supporting the HbbTV 2.0.1 standard. French encoding specialist Ateme has teamed up with a video orchestration vendor called Vualto, integrating the Vualto Control Hub technology on Ateme’s flagship Titan Live and Titan Mux encoders. The vendor-agnostic VCH product allows broadcasters…