NBCUniversal’s Telemundo and NBC Universo, the official broadcaster for Spanish-language of the FIFA World Cup in the US across all video platforms, announced details of their plans to telecast four 2015 FIFA football Events. Both networks will deliver to sports fans throughout the US an unprecedented 560 hours of football action in 2015. The extensive […]
EBS, a full-service provider of EPG data for platforms and channels worldwide, is now a member of the Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR). Founded by Movielabs, Cablelabs, Comcast and Rovi, EIDR is a not-for-profit industry association that meets a crucial need across the entertainment supply chain, providing universal identifiers for a broad array of audio […]
Globecast has announced the launch of its new Los Angeles Media Centre, offering broadcasters and content providers a converged workflow to prepare, deliver and playout content to any kind of distribution platform. The new Media Centre compliments established Globecast facilities in London and Singapore, enabling Globecast to offer a truly one-stop-shop for Media Management, Playout, […]
ContentWise, the personalisation, discovery and recommendations solution for digital TV content, is further expanding its North American market presence. As digital television service providers throughout the region continue to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, ContentWise has identified North America as a key region for the growth of personalidation. To drive and […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, has unveiled its ProView 7100 – a single-rack, multiformat, integrated receiver-decoder (IRD), transcoder and MPEG stream processor that supports the HEVC standard. As part of an end-to-end HEVC-based video transmission solution offered by Harmonic, the ProView 7100 enables video content and service providers to decode HEVC compressed streams […]
VeEX, a global player in Telecom, CATV, Fibre and Broadband Access, has added a range of OTDR modules to the RXT, the company’s flagship modular multi-service platform. The RXT-4100 and 4112 OTDR series modules feature several optical test functions, including a fully featured OTDR for legacy fibre systems and a CWDM OTDR for CWDM networks […]
Telestream, a provider of digital video tools and workflow solutions, has announced Tempo, a new time adjustment solution for re-timing file-based content and intelligently adjusting the running time of shows and segments. Showcased for the first time at NAB 2015 (booth SL3305), Tempo utilises new time compression algorithms that deliver superior quality and faster turn-around times. […]
AMC Networks International has acquired a wide range of first run original series and miniseries to fuel growth across Sundance Channel Global’s linear and authenticated video-on-demand (VOD) and television everywhere (TVE) services. The announcement was made by Bruce Tuchman, President of AMC Global and Sundance Channel Global. The second season of the critically acclaimed Sundance […]
US cable group Liberty Global wants to distribute ITV’s most popular programmes across Europe, but sees the UK commercial broadcaster as too “pricey” to acquire outright, its chief financial officer has suggested in an interview with the FT. “ITV looks awfully pricey,” CFO Charlie Bracken commented. “We’re not going to invest billions of dollars in […]
Pay-TV revenues, subscriptions and on-demand, in North America peaked in 2013 at $102.86 billion, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The latest edition of the Digital TV North America report forecasts that revenues will fall by 11.7 per cent or $12.04 billion between 2014 and 2020 to $90.71 billion in 2020. Cable revenues […]