Six OBE C-100 encoders were used at the Glastonbury Festival to transport high quality HD broadcast feeds over IP from six stages to London, marking the first on-site IP delivery at Glastonbury. These feeds were then used on the web and Connected Red Button services. Using BBC Newsgathering’s expertise in using IP and commodity equipment […]
Win Cash Live, the video led gambling entertainment brand, has partnered with automated playout specialist, BroadStream Solutions, to go on air with its new fully interactive gambling TV channel and website wincashlive.com. The new channel launched is utilising BroadStream’s OASYS platform to playout 3 hours of video content each night between 10pm and 1am. Win […]
The executive, in charge of the Iberian market during the last years, has been appointed as Sales Director for Europe and Africa as part of VSN’s international expansion strategy. Pascual’s main objectives are to increase the presence of VSN’s technology in both areas and expand the company’s distribution network, while keeping a close relation with […]
NetRange, a global player in white label Smart TV portal solutions, has finalised a content deal with icflix, the Middle East and North African’s leading Video on Demand streaming service for Jazwood (Bollywood- and Hollywood- content). The service is acting internationally with a strong focus on the MENA market. Jazwood- (the Arabic equivalent to Hollywood) […]
Romanzo Criminale, the critically acclaimed Italian television series, will air in Israel this summer for the first time thanks to a new licensing deal struck by Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services. The territory première will be accessible to subscribers of Cellcom Israel’s new video on demand service Cellcom tv. The hit show […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that all TV and multi-platform broadcast rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2018–2024 period have been awarded to Discovery Communications, the parent company of Eurosport. Discovery chief executive, David Zaslav, told the Guardian that it would negotiate with the BBC and other broadcasters in […]
Digital TV Research’s Global OTT TV & Video Forecasts report estimates that Netflix will have 69.90 million paying subscribers by end-2015, up by 28 per cent from 54.48 million at end-2014. International paying subs will reach 26.36 million by end-2015 – up by 9.58 million (or by 57 per cent) at end-2014. While the service’s […]
Sky is calling on the UK comms industry regulator Ofcom to instigate a full market investigation to examine problems affecting consumers in the UK’s broadband marketplace. The company believes that issues covering both competition and quality of service are sufficient for Ofcom to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to conduct an inquiry. The […]
A new brand study of streaming providers seeking to understand how consumers perceive each brand has revealed that consumers believe Netflix can wholly replace other entertainment options, Hulu is irritating users with its mandatory commercials and Amazon Prime Instant Video isn’t differentiated from Amazon Prime shipping. The research, carried out by consumer insights firm iModerate, […]
Further to advanced-television.com’s June 2014 story that John Malone’s international cable operator Liberty Global and cable networks programmer Discovery Communications were seeking to take a 49 per cent stake in Formula One Group from private equity player CVC Capital Partners, the UK’s Sunday Times is reporting that Liberty Global and Sky a considering a £4.5 […]