Discovery Communications has extended the contract of president and CEO David Zaslav to December 31st 2019 – a deal that makes him a “significant long-term shareholder.” Zaslav joined Discovery in January 2007 and took it fully public a year later. He commented: “It has been an amazing and successful seven years, and I am excited […]

Brightcove, a global provider of cloud services for video, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Unicorn Media, a provider of cloud video ad insertion technology. Based on a $14 price per share of Brightcove common stock as specified in the purchase agreement, the transaction is valued at approximately […]

Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named Julius Genachowski a Managing Director and partner in the US Buyout team. He will focus on investments in global technology, media and telecom, including Internet and mobile. Genachowski is returning to the private sector after serving as Chairman of the US FCC for four years, departing […]

Yes, Israel’s only provider of multi-channel television broadcasts via satellite, has selected Tvinci, pay OTT TV platform, to create the ultimate user experience for yes GO, Israel’s first personal and social multi-screen TV service. Building on the penetration of connected devices into Israeli households, yes has chosen Tvinci’s MediaStore to create an immersive personal and […]

Technicolor, a specialist in the media and entertainment sector, is launching Virdata to provide businesses with cloud-based monitoring and management services for “Internet of Things” (IoT) and M2M (machine-to-machine) services. Virdata’s device and application monitoring and management service features a real-time and historical big data analytics stack. Initial industries targeted by Virdata are consumer electronics, […]

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has launched a commercial MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) implementation, making standardised video delivery via the Internet a reality. The MPEG-DASH implementation, along with a Common Encryption (CENC) scheme using Marlin DRM, forms part of ADB’s new, ready-to-deploy OTT solution for video service providers looking for a high quality, standards-based […]

Amazon’s LOVEFiLM and MGM Television has announced that the highly anticipated second season of last year’s critically-acclaimed Norse epic “Vikings” will air exclusively on LOVEFiLM in the UK. Premiering on 28th February 2014, each new weekly installment in the 10 episode series will be available to stream the day after it broadcasts in the U.S. […]

RRsat Europe, the European arm of RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of digital content management and global distribution services, has recently restored the film ‘Victim’ for ITV Studios Global Entertainment. The cult classic 1961 British film stars Dirk Bogarde as a prominent lawyer who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer. The film […]