Video Clarity, a provider of audio and video quality measurement and analysis systems, has announced the launch of ClearView Player IP, a high-capacity server with playlist functions for automatically playing and recording uncompressed video using new IP-related video transport standards. ClearView Player IP represents a new category of playback servers specifically designed for use in […]
As of January 2017 David Lois is appointed new Sales Manager Broadcast Products for German System Integrator Broadcast Solutions GmbH. With David Lois joining the company Broadcast Solutions will increase the market share of the existing products within the products portfolio and – in an ongoing process – will add new products to the division. […]
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has said the corporation needs to reinvent its on-demand iPlayer service to make the leap from a catch-up service to a “must-visit” destination in its own right in the face of rapid growth by its competitors such as Netflix. In a wide-ranging New Year message to BBC staff on ‘Reinventing the […]
Facebook is preparing to test mid-roll video advertising – in which ads are played midway through a video that a user is watching. The ads would likely first appear in Facebook videos by professional publishers, according to reports. To date, the Facebook has resisted allowing pre-roll ads, that play before a video starts, which are […]
Viacom has announced the appointment of David Lynn – currently President of Viacom International Media Networks’ operations in the UK, Northern and Eastern Europe – as President and CEO of Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN). As CEO of VIMN, he will have management oversight of all of Viacom’s media networks and related businesses outside the […]
French media software solutions company NETIA ha announced that its sole shareholder Globecast (part of the Orange group) has sold all its shares in the company to two French media entrepreneurs, Anthony Savelli and Vincent Benveniste. The acquisition was made via Radio Act SAS, their consulting and services agency. Both businessmen exceed 25 years of […]
The European Commission is referring Spain to the Court of Justice under Article 108(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The move follows Spain’s failure to recover subsidies it granted to finance the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in remote areas of, respectively, Castilla-la-Mancha and the rest […]
Spain’s Telefónica has reached a strategic agreement with e-sports company ESL to develop a platform with exclusive content for its Movistar+ brand in Spain and to create a professional club for electronic sports. Telefónica will launch a dedicated channel – Movistar eSports – covering matches from leagues such as ESL One, ESL Intel Extreme and […]
BT Sport is to offer a free simulcast of the NBA Global Game between the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers on January 12th to fans across the UK on Facebook, Freeview and Virgin Media. It will be the first time an NBA game will be shown live on Facebook in the UK. Fans will be […]
Back in 2014 Google’s parent company, Alphabet, bought Skybox Imaging for a reported $500 million (€473.5m). It renamed the enterprise Terra Bella. Bloomberg is reporting that the business is now up for sale. Terra Bella, based in Mountain View, California, specialises in extremely high-resolution Earth observation images. Founded in 2009, the business uses 1080p satellite […]