SFR has launched its hybrid set-top box powered by Marvell’s ARMADA 1500 Plus system-on-chip (SoC) platform. The ARMADA 1500 Plus is a full HD media processor designed for a wide range of Smart video products. The ARMADA 1500 Plus will power SFR’s hybrid set-top boxes to enable Google services for Smart TV. “I’m very proud […]
BT Sport has signed a deal to show exclusively live coverage of up to 26 stages of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), starting with the opening event of the 2014 season, the famous Rallye Monte Carlo, on January 15th. The BT Sport WRC programming will run across BT Sport’s three channels, BT Sport 1 […]
AMC Networks has secured carriage on Dubai’s OSN pay-TV bouquet for a HD version of its Sundance Channel. The new channel, which celebrates independent feature films, world cinema, documentaries, short films, series and original programmes, will be available exclusively on OSN from January 15th. Sundance in HD takes the total HD channels on OSN to […]
Liverpool FC has announced nine new television partnerships, which will allow millions of fans across the globe to watch the team’s most recent matches and enjoy access to exclusive content and behind-the-scenes footage from the club. The new deals encompass the following: beIN Sport (Hong Kong); Kompass (Indonesia); Sony (India); beIN Sport (Middle East and […]
Euronews, the international news channel, has signed an agreement with Canal Futura, a non-lucrative educative Brazilian channel part of a social project of public interest. The agreement enables Canal Futura to select among the wide range of programmes produced by Euronews in several fields such as education, culture, science, high-tech, entertainment, in-depth reports… Futura is […]
Netflix original series, Lilyhammer, the comedic drama starring Steven Van Zandt, will return exclusively to Netflix for a third season in 2014. The series’ eight episode second season debuted in December in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Denmark and the Netherlands. “We are proud to bring back Lilyhammer for a third season,” […]
For improved production quality and greater reliability on game day, the Colorado Rockies production staff have installed a Grass Valley K2 Solo 3G 2-channel media server into the control room at Coors Field in Denver, CO. The compact, standalone server allows staff members to tap into a powerful 24/7/365 file-based infrastructure and high-performance file operations […]
On December 15th, 2013, the managing partners of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG and the DVS Board of Directors appointed Andreas Loges as the company’s new CEO. In 1985, Dr. Siegfried Beyer, Dr. Peter Spoer and Dr. Hans-Ulrich Weidenbruch founded their own company, DVS, thereby laying the foundation for one of the leading […]
The European Commission is to undertake a competition enquiry into Hollywood studios’ licensing deals with pay-TV broadcasters such as BSkyB and Vivendi’s Canal Plus. In a Press Release, the EC named Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures and the largest European pay-TV broadcasters such as BSkyB of the UK, Canal Plus […]
In an attempt to capture more TV subscribers, Spain’s largest cable company ONO is to offer its recently launched online TV service for free to all its 100 Mbps subscribers who are not currently taking a TV service. ONO TV online currently distributes up to 40 TV channels and VoD content with access though PCs […]