The Croatian national broadcasting Group Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) has signed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat for capacity on HOTBIRD, the flagship video neighbourhood for Europe and the Middle East, in order to broadcast its latest entertainment and news channel HRT-HTV 5 to an international viewer base. The free-to-air channel HRT-HTV 5 offers 24-hour news, educational […]
Arqiva, the international satellite and media services provider, has announced a long-term deal with global leader in sports, events, media and fashion, IMG, to deliver two live sports playout channels in Singapore. The deal – which will see both playout channels go live on 30 April – will also see Arqiva provide IMG with additional […]
The US wireless [celluar] industry contributes $475 billion (€387bn) annually to America’s economy and supports 4.7 million jobs, according to a new report commissioned by US wireless communications industry trade body the CTIA. The analysis, developed by professional services company Accenture, finds that the US wireless industry accounts for 2.6 per cent of total US […]
NovelSat, a specialist in satellite transmission technology, has extended its technology cooperation with ATEME, a global player in video delivery. The new collaboration between the long-time partners includes the integration of NovelSat’s PCIe-based NS10C Satellite Modulator cards and NS20C Satellite Demodulator cards into the ATEME’s TITAN software converged headend solution. The new integration was rolled […]
Spectral Edge, the real-time image enhancement technology specialist and NTT DATA Italia have announced a deal to incorporate Vividteq technology into NTT DATA’s broadcast infrastructure offering. Thanks to this collaboration, broadcasters will be able to deliver sharper, crisper images with greater colour and contrast with reduced bitrate, regardless of set-top box or TV set limitations. […]
Sixty, the interactive TV company, today announced that they are collaborating with Avid® to integrate Sixty’s interactive TV solution, Ease Live, with Avid’s Maestro™ | Live all-in-one real-time production solution. Sixty’s Ease Live solution will enable Avid Maestro | Live to unify the linear and online TV experience for broadcasters, providing a consistent brand and […]
Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe & Africa has announced that Deep State, the first regional scripted commission for the company, has been greenlit for a second season. The highly anticipated new espionage thriller is produced by Endor Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, and a writers’ room has already begun headed by co-creator and showrunner […]
axle ai, the leader in radically simple video search (NAB booth SL15116), is introducing a compact network appliance, the axle ai Hub, designed to solve the critical problem of finding video content in creative environments. In recent years, storage for video has been booming; current estimates show over 200 Exabytes (millions of Terabytes) sold for […]
At NAB 2018, the Convergence TV project demonstrates the delivery of a full UHDTV service using an ATSC 3.0 broadcast path for distributing a regular HD service (2K + HDR) and an ATSC 3.0 broadband path for enhancing the service from HD to UHDTV (4K + HDR). Thanks to the use of scalable HEVC (SHVC) […]
Sky Deutschland has acquired the broadcast rights to show 25 games from this summer’s Football World Cup in Russia in UHD. The deal struck with SportA, the sports rights agency of German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, gives SkyD the exclusive right to a choice game live in UHD on all tournament days. The live […]