Advanced Television

APT suffers glitch on Apsat-6

Hong Kong-based satellite operator APT has had to switch off “several” transponders on its Apstar-6 satellite. The craft appears to have suffered a problem on one of its solar arrays which convert the sun’s light into electricity. The satellite was built by Alcatel Space (now Thales Alenia) some 14 years ago and launched on April […]

June 4, 2018By Chris Forrester

Friend MTS partners with castLabs

Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, has announced that castLabs, a global player in premium digital video technology, has joined the ASiD Watermarking Partner Programme to better protect premium content from streaming piracy on OTT connected devices. “Integrating Friend MTS’ ASiD subscriber watermarking within our PRESTOplay video player SDKs, alongside our DRMtoday DRM […]

June 4, 2018

Sunset+Vine awarded European Athletics Indoor Championships 2019

The European Athletics Indoor Championships has appointed Sunset+Vine, the global TV sports producer and distributor, to be the host broadcaster for the 35th edition of the competition taking place at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow in March 2019. Under the terms of the agreement, Sunset+Vine will produce the World Feed for the championships, where the best […]

June 4, 2018

Irdeto secures Indentive’s Connective

Irdeto is partnering with Indentive, a Swedish IoT technology provider, to secure its home IoT platform, Connective. Indentive will implement Irdeto Cloakware Software Protection and Cloakware Secure Environment to ensure that security is built into the basis of the home network. This move is intended to offer better and more efficient protection than the retrofitting […]

June 4, 2018

Canal+ calls time on Les Guignols

Vincent Bolloré, the majority owner of Canal Plus via his Vivendi business, has finally ruled that Les Guignols de l’Info, a satirical puppet segment broadcast each evening on Canal Plus, will end this summer. Bolloré has long wanted to end the eight-minute show, which is available during the free-to-view portion of Canal Plus’s early evening […]

June 4, 2018By Chris Forrester

MX1 expands YOL TV distribution

MX1, a global solution provider of media services, has been selected as the distribution service provider for YOL TV, a Turkish-language channel based in Germany. MX1 is delivering the channel via an SES satellite and is providing the satellite uplink. YOL TV broadcasts from its studio in Cologne and transfers the transmission signal via an […]

June 4, 2018

Kabelnoord selects Amino’s MOVE multiscreen video platform

Kabelnoord, the Dutch cable operator, is to deploy Amino’s MOVE end-to-end multiscreen video platform to offer next generation TV services as part of a major rollout of its FTTH network. The operator already provides a mix of DVB-C and fibre-based services to almost 30,000 customers in Friesland and will shortly undertake a major expansion of its footprint […]

June 4, 2018

CenturyLink to provide live feed of World Cup

CenturyLink will transmit international distribution and unilateral feeds in support of this summer’s World Cup to top networks in the U.S. and Latin America starting June 14th. The networks – including Fox in the U.S., TV Azteca in Mexico, and RCN and Caracol in Colombia – will use CenturyLink’s high quality, broadcast-based Vyvx Solutions to provide diverse routes […]

June 4, 2018

Spain: UEFA TV rights negotiation on hold

Negotiations between Spanish telcos and Mediapro over European football TV rights have been put on hold following the launch this week of the auction for La Liga TV rights. The telcos now have until June 25th to submit their bids for the National Football Championship over the next three seasons. All are now focused on […]

June 1, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

US teens leaving Facebook for YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat

Until recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America’s youth – but it is no longer the most popular online platform among teens, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Today, roughly half (51 per cent) of US teens ages 13 to 17 say they use Facebook, notably lower than the shares who […]

June 1, 2018