With the TV industry moving towards greater synergies between the sale of traditional and digital video inventory, SpotX and clypd announce the development of a single solution for media owners to manage the sale of all forms of television assets and video inventory. The pairing of SpotX’s digital video platform and clypd’s linear TV platform […]
Monterosa, the multiscreen activation specialist, has announced the recruitment of Ben Barker to the newly created position of director of sports ahead of major year of sport in 2016. Barker’s responsibilities will include creating interactive mobile content and leading business development in the commercial sports sector by engaging new clients across brands, events, sports federations, […]
Bein has signed a major framework agreement with Producer/Distributor Prime Entertainment Group for the launch of its Entertainment offer of 24 new channels. The agreement starts in November 1st and will last at least until end 2017. The programmes will be available in several languages including English, French and Arab. “The Middle East market was a […]
Xcrypt and TNTSAT Africa, in the person of its CEO, Ismaila Sidibe, inked their agreement in principle during IBC 2014. Less than one year later, after having had to build an entire DTH uplink from scratch, after training 3,000 installers to the art of not only setting-up dishes but also reselling their TV package, TNTSAT […]
ABS and Arab Satellite Communication Organisation (Arabsat) have signed an expansion capacity agreement on ABS-3A for a multi-transponder, multiyear deal for Ku-band payload. The additional capacity will be used for different customer networks within the Middle East and North Africa regions in particular Saudi Arabia.Under the agreement, Arabsat will use the new bandwidth on ABS-3A […]
Eurofins Digital Testing (formerly Digital TV Labs and Testronic Labs Belgium) is now the official lab for certifying pay-TV enabled automotive infotainment systems, which use the MOST network to transport CI+ protected content, using Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP). The MOST Cooperation recently released its latest MOST Stream Transmission Specification, which includes support for the […]
Following advanced-television.com’s revelation that beIN was planning to launch a movie service for the Middle East, the operator has confirmed that it is to offer a complete pay-TV proposition of sports, movies and entertainment available to customers through a single regional pay-TV platform, an initiative that it says democratises pay-TV in MENA. Marking its twelfth […]
TiVo Research and Analytics and Viacom have formed a new strategic alliance focused on advancing Viacom’s proprietary data and advertising solutions. Viacom’s data and ad products have led the industry in recent years with predictive tools such as Vantage and Echo Social Graph that hyper-target consumers. The first such alliance for TiVo with a media […]
Media heavyweights and private investors including Discovery Communications, BT and a consortium led by its former chairman Luke Johnson are weighing up an offer for Channel 4 as the UK government prepares to sell off the broadcaster, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Johnson, who chaired the taxpayer-owned broadcaster between 2004 and 2010 and now leads […]
Rising demand for broadband services will compensate for the loss in TV video subscribers and help sustain industry growth through 2016, says Moody’s Investors Service. As a result, the rating agency maintains its stable outlook on the US cable industry. Broadband subscribers outnumbered total video subscribers in Moody’s rated universe for the first time at […]