Intelsat’s Q3 numbers showed the operator is still under pressure with quarterly revenues falling from $651.8 million last year to $608.6 million (down 6.6 per cent year-on-year) in the three months to September 30th. There were revenue falls in all of Intelsat’s key divisions, including its all-important Network Services which registered a fall in revenues […]
Roku and Sky Deutschland have entered into a strategic agreement using the Roku streaming platform for the development of the Sky Online TV Box. Sky Online (see story above) will be available in the coming months through the Sky Online TV Box, which will also have access to the online video library Snap. Sky Deutschland […]
Watchup, the Stanford startup, has announced that its video aggregator news app will be exclusively available on televisions via the Amazon Fire TV Stick Amazon¹s first streaming media stick. The Watchup app is free and will be available on the Amazon Fire TV Stick shipping in mid-November 2014. Watchup¹s app will offer viewers a […]
Satellite operator SES is linking with Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) to provide bandwidth for in-flight connectivity to airlines around the world. GEE supplies aircraft with WiFi, movies and TV to some 150 airlines around the world. GEE’s “Row 44” division serves more than 520 aircraft including those of Southwest Airlines, Icelandair, Norwegian Air, Transaero, mango, […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that TalkTalk, the UK telco, has chosen an integrated headend solution from Harmonic to help deliver its IPTV services. Utilising Harmonic’s Electra 9200 universal multiservice encoder and ProStream 9100 with ACE stream processor and transcoder, which feature a highly dense and scalable architecture, TalkTalk can cost-effectively […]
Viaccess-Orca has revealed that Olympusat Telecom has chosen Viaccess-Orca’s Voyage – TV Everywhere Solution to support its upcoming OTT multiscreen business-to-business (B2B) service. Olympusat Telecom is a division of Olympusat Holdings, one of the largest independent media companies that owns, operates, and represents more than 60 Spanish-language TV networks with over 10,000 hours of content. […]
Cinedigm and Vimeo have signed a deal to bring ongoing releases from the content distributor’s celebrated catalogue to Vimeo On Demand, kicking off with the release of My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks. As part of the partnership, Cinedigm will release a number of films exclusively and non-exclusively on Vimeo On Demand over the […]
ADB, a provider of advanced solutions for connected homes and connected lives, has entered into a co-operation agreement with iQor to provide after sales services currently carried out from Poland. The scope of co-operation covers all areas related to repair, refurbishment, testing and spare part fulfillment of ADB-provided equipment. iQor is a global provider of […]
Artesyn Embedded Technologies gas announced the SharpMedia 2U Platform, a carrier grade media processing acceleration appliance that enables communications service providers to add high density voice and video processing to their networks using a standard rack server architecture. Applications such as session border controller, media gateway, media resource function, video/content optimization, WebRTC voice, network video […]
THEMA and iROKOtv Partners are reinforcing their collaboration with the signing of an exclusive two-year-long agreement to provide some 200 films/year to Nollywood TV. These films will be broadcast for the very first time in French in all of French-speaking Africa and in France, only on Nollywood TV. This excellent initiative seals the alliance between […]