A total of 329 children’s TV channels (including the various linguistic versions) are currently on offer in Europe, accounting for 6 per cent of all national and international TV channels established in Europe. One children’s TV network features on average 2.6 linguistic versions, according to data from the European Audiovisual Observatory. The quarter of all […]
Conrad Clemson SVP, SP Platforms & Applications, tells a-tv @ IBC 2017 about the super speed innovation that Cisco’s cloud platform is enabling. He describes how where previously a new STB might have needed nine months in the lab, a customer recently requested an Android STB and it was being shipped within a day. Clemson […]
October 11th saw another 100 per cent successful launch for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, and a flawless landing of the craft’s first stage. It was the third time that SpaceX had flown a previously-used first stage, and the 15th launch this year (with another half-dozen likely by year-end). The success confirmed SpaceX’s senior director Tom […]
Expanding upon its base in arts and culture programming, Ovation has created a new, multi-platform, VoD service focused on cultural tourism branded ‘Journy’. The service, available immediately in the US on Rokudevices and the Xumo connected-TV platform, features a number of new acquisitions, as well as select Ovation travel-related original series and specials. “Although Journy has its […]
BARC India has partnered with cable distribution giant DEN Networks for measuring TV viewership using Return Path Data (RPD) via its digital STBs. BARC India, will use a portion of DEN Networks subscriber base to augment its TV measurement service. The large pool of panel households will also help address the issue of panel home tampering. BARC […]
Netgem has completed the acquisition of VoxTok, a provider of audio platforms and software modules for ODMs and OEMs. VoxTok software has now been fully integrated in the Netgem Diamond platform, leading to the successful presentation of the SoundBox solution – wth HbbTV services and full ‘Music avenue’. This acquisition will accelerate the Netgem Diamond software […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has named Wayne Garvie as President, International Production for Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Garvie has been overseeing SPT’s international productions on an interim basis for the last several months. As President, he will lead the studio’s international television production business, overseeing the creative teams outside the US as well as SPT’s […]
Mediaproxy, a provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions for compliance, monitoring and analysis, has announced that New York sports broadcaster SNY has chosen its LogServer software solution for compliance logging and monitoring. SNY is New York’s premium sports broadcaster and television home of the New York Mets, Jets and UConn Men’s and Women’s basketball programmes. […]
Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has unveiled the company’s strategy to support its customers’ incorporation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into their IT infrastructures. Through this initiative, Akamai says it will leverage the scale, performance and security of the Akamai Intelligent Platform to support fast, secure, and resilient distribution of data to connected […]
Regional multichannel TV and digital video trade body CASBAA has announced the key themes (and workshop programme) for the CASBAA Convention 2017 to be staged at Studio City in Macau, from 6-8 November. The line-up for the three-day CASBAA Convention 2017 has been designed “to capture the urgent issues facing our industry at a time […]