21st Century Fox-backed Star India paid a $2.55 billion fortune to secure exclusive coverage of India’s Premier League cricket matches. It also had the sense to secure those rights with a Supreme Court Order ruling forbidding re-transmission of cricket’s live feed by the national Doordarshan public broadcaster. Now Star India is enforcing those rights with […]
Netflix is planning to partner with a number of airlines to provide them with its mobile streaming technology. According to a report in Variety, this partnership service will begin early next year. The streaming giant will offer its low-broadband mobile technology to airline carriers, allowing them to offer cheap (or free) Wi-Fi access to passengers to stream […]
The BBC has added a new category – From the Archive – to its iPlayer streaming service. Some 450 programmes from the BBC’s vast archive are available at launch, including a wide range of programmes from 1946 to present day. It will feature footage which hasn’t been shown since first broadcast, including collections such as […]
Jeff Bezos-backed rocket company Blue Origin has won a satellite launch contract from a Thailand start-up broadband business, Mu Space. “We have entered into an agreement with Mu Space on a future launch of a geostationary satellite aboard New Glenn early in the next decade,” Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson said at the International Astronautical […]
Vimeo, the ad-free open video platform, has confirmed an agreement to acquire Livestream, the live video solution that powers over 10 million events a year. Vimeo has also rolled out its own Vimeo Live product, offering live streaming capabilities directly through its platform for the first time. Following completion of the acquisition, Livestream’s offering will […]
Motion Picture Laboratories, the studio-backed research and development venture, has announced the appointment of Richard Berger as President & Chief Executive Officer. Berger will lead MovieLabs’ cross-industry initiatives focused on next-generation content platforms and products, automated digital workflows, content security and digital analytics. Berger brings over 20 years of experience in digital innovation, with more […]
Boeing says it has completed the Critical Design Review with client ViaSat of California for its ViaSat-3 class of satellites, and is now moving forward with construction of the first craft. ViaSat is partnering in a joint-venture with Eutelsat of Paris to place a ViaSat-3 craft operating over Europe. Currently the schedule calls for the […]
TVT/DMC, the new global content services platform, has been selected to enable the delivery of FOX channel content to Dutch audiences. The Dutch FOX television channel becomes the latest addition to TVT/DMC’s fully operational, virtualised ‘private broadcast cloud’. FOX broadcasts a wide range of general entertainment content in the Netherlands, featuring leading TV series, including […]
Alticast has announced that KT Skylife, the largest satellite broadcasting operator in South Korea, has selected the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the foundation for TELEBEE, a new end-to-end turnkey OTT service that will provide a competitive edge against Netflix, Hulu and other SVoD services. Ambient TV has been specifically designed to allow fully-featured OTT services […]
Lotame, the independent data management platform (DMP), has announced the launch of its aiTV suite of new products focused on bringing greater audience intelligence to television and video. These offerings will live under Lotame’s newly formed aiTV division, led by General Manager Doug Pollack. “Lotame’s proven onboarding, mapping, and managing of audience and viewership data […]