UPC DTH, a satellite television provider in Central and Eastern Europe, is adding streaming service HBO GO for all its HBO customers on UPC Direct in Hungary and freeSAT in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Available from September 1st, UPC DTH will provide to its HBO Pak and HBO MaxPak customers instant and unlimited access […]
Japanese public broadcaster NHK’s newly-launched Video Bank, which embraces all of NHK’s HD news, features, documentaries, drama and animation, is being distributed by Getty Images. The deal between Getty and NHK echoes a similar relationship between the BBC and Getty for the BBC’s Motion Gallery content and programming. “As the innovator and global leader in […]
Fox Sports, Fox International Channels’ (FIC) sports network, has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights for the UEFA Europa League in Hong Kong for 3 seasons, starting with the 2015-16 season. This is the first time Fox Sports has acquired the rights to the UEFA Europa League in Asia. The multimedia platform deal covers linear channels, […]
Dubai-based OSN (Orbit Showtime Network) is to take Abu Dhabi Media’s (ADM) HD subscription channels and offer them to its subscribers effective September 1st. The offer includes the new Abu Dhabi Drama+, and ADM’s sports channels. David Butorac, chief executive of OSN, said: “The addition of Abu Dhabi Media’s pay channels, leaders in the region’s […]
ContentWise, the personalisation, discovery and recommendations solution for digital TV content, has confirmed the appointment of Pancrazio Auteri as Chief Technology Officer. Effective immediately, Auteri will drive forward ContentWise’s technology roadmap, and oversee the company’s technology vision and innovation. Auteri joins ContentWise from TiVo, a leader in the advanced television market, where he held the […]
BlackArrow, a provider of TV advertising and data solutions, has announced the latest release of the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System which provides support for audience-based frequency capping. The industry will now have the ability to manage the number of times an ad is seen by a unique household or device across on-demand platforms and TV […]
Media and technology company BroadbandTV (BBTV) has renewed and expanded its relationship with the NBA internationally. BBTV and the NBA first teamed up in April 2009 for the management of its fan-uploaded content. As part of the relationship, BBTV and the NBA will continue to work together to enhance the NBA Channel on YouTube. The NBA Channel on […]
Irdeto and Nova, the Greek and Cypriot satellite pay-TV platform of Forthnet, have worked together on the transition to a fully-secured DTH base. Forthnet recently upgraded its headend system to MPEG-4 and its modulation scheme to DVBS2. In parallel, Forthnet swapped all legacy STBs with new ones which were capable of supporting DVBS2 and HD […]
Intelsat today commemorates its 50th anniversary of providing critical telecommunications and video content distribution infrastructure for businesses, organizations and governments around the world. In honor of its anniversary, the company created a video library featuring 50 interviews with contributors to the earliest days of the commercial space sector, as well as the business leaders responsible […]
For more than a year, TVE do Babía looked for a solution that would perform a migration from its old broadcast tape-based master to a modern system formed by an automate broadcasting server, that could receive contents directly from Final Cut Pro editors which they had already implemented. TVE do Bahía needed the platform to […]