Advanced Television

nc+ puts Polish football on Dailymotion

Polish pay-TV broadcaster nc+ has acquired the rights to Polish football league matches for the next four seasons after agreeing a new deal with the Ekstraklasa, and has partnered with Discovery to screen a selection matches on Discovery-owned Eurosport 2. Under the new deal, matches will be aired live on Canal+, with some games broadcast […]

June 29, 2015

US cinemas screen MPAA creativity awareness videos

The Motion Picture Association of America has confirmed that AMC Theatres will begin airing the MPAA’s ‘I Make Movies’ video series nationwide to raise audience awareness about the hard work and creativity behind-the-scenes of the motion picture and television industry, along with the importance of viewing content legitimately. AMC Theatres consists of more than 300 […]

June 29, 2015By Colin Mann

Eyeye TV live broadcasting app

900 Seconds Oy, a Finnish media technology developer, has launched a live video broadcasting service for consumers: Eyeye TV. The service is currently available for iOS users. The Android app will be launched in July. Jari Ovaskainen, the chairman of the company, sees huge opportunities in live video broadcasting: “The social media, as we know […]

June 29, 2015

Kabillion signs Canoe DAI deal

Kabillion, the independently owned VoD network in the US, has finalised a deal with Canoe, an advertising technology company, thereby allowing Kabillion the opportunity to deliver dynamically inserted advertising in its VoD programming in a more efficient and time reducing manner. Canoe’s VoD Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI)  platform inserts TV advertising into programmes for more […]

June 29, 2015

Polsat Food Network for UPC Poland

Scripps Networks UK & EMEA, a division of the producer of lifestyle content, has announced the launch of Polsat Food Network HD, the global food and entertainment brand, on UPC Poland, the largest cable television provider in the market.  Polsat Food Network HD will be available from June 29th on channel 411 (Horizon) and 149 […]

June 29, 2015

Hong Kong: CTE launches OTT channel KIX 360

Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, will soon launch a new OTT linear feed for its action entertainment channel KIX. The new HD OTT channel will make its debut in Singapore in the fourth quarter of 2015 and will be rolled out progressively across the […]

June 29, 2015

Admedo launches Oracle marketing app

Admedo has launched a programmatic advertising offering now available on the Oracle Marketing AppCloud. Admedo’s Demand Side Platform (DSP) helps marketers to manage their programmatic advertising in-house with Oracle Marketing Cloud. The Oracle Marketing AppCloud is one of the industry’s most comprehensive marketing technology ecosystems, offering Oracle customers a broad set of marketing apps and […]

June 29, 2015

vuMedia helps CloudsTV International go OTT

Leading OTT solutions provider Visual Unity and its award winning vuMedia OTT platform have been chosen by CloudsTV International to provide OTT and Multiscreen Services for CloudsTV’s linear television channel. CloudsTV International, broadcasting from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, is the only linear channel targeting the African and Urban diaspora in the Middle […]

June 29, 2015

38,500 TV channels by 2024

Satellite broadcaster SES, in a presentation at its recent Investor Day in London, said the world’s total number of TV channels will grow 47 per cent to about 38,500 channels by 2024. Using core data from Northern Sky Research, SES says that despite North America having the largest number of channels (including local services) it […]

June 26, 2015By Chris Forrester

EBU calls for “clear and strong” net neutrality rules

Public service media (PSM) executives across Europe have adopted a declaration calling EU governments to ‘make history’ by setting out the rules for the future of the open Internet. The declaration states that net neutrality rules are necessary to strengthen freedom of expression in the digital age, to foster knowledge for citizens, to leverage incentives […]

June 26, 2015