An Israeli start-up has reportedly signed a $100 million agreement “with a major regional communications satellite operator” to send up ‘space tug’ craft that will attach themselves to an aging – but much larger – craft and act as a mission extension vehicle. The plan is to launch the Space Drone tugs in 2020. Effective […]
Verizon and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have announced a multi-year partnership that will deliver one of the most comprehensive video streaming offerings of NBA content – from live out-of-market games via NBA League Pass to highlights, fantasy basketball, original programming and more – on Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Fantasy and across Verizon’s family of media […]
INSIGHT TV, a UHD broadcaster and producer of native UHD HDR content covering action sports, entertainment, and lifestyle, has announced its first distribution deal in China with Belcor Media. INSIGHT TV’s UHD content will be available to Chinese audiences on a 24/7-basis, adding to the growing number of regions that have access to INSIGHT’s content. […]
Extreme Reach, the cloud technology platform for TV and video ad workflow and Talent & Rights management, has released a comprehensive new report illuminating just how cumbersome and inefficient it is for ad ops teams to find and prepare creative assets for video campaigns. In fact, 93 per cent of ad ops professionals on the […]
Vodafone and Huawei have conducted a successful field trial of Fixed Access Network Slicing. The virtual access network solution partitions a physical fibre to the home (FTTH) network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualisation of the access network. This gives flexibility and full control for different operations teams (be they from different departments […]
Tootle has announced a seven-figure investment from Channel 4’s Commercial Growth Fund, striking an airtime-for-equity arrangement with the car-selling platform. As part of the investment, Tootle will be able to launch the television advertising campaign in return for the broadcaster taking a minority equity stake. Launched in 2015, Channel 4’s Commercial Growth Fund offers high […]
Intertrust, a provider of digital rights management and secure content delivery solutions, and Jadooz, a provider of Virtual Reality content, have announced a partnership to bring the first of its kind VR entertainment to cinemas in mid-size cities across India. Jadooz VR will use Intertrust Kiora, an all-in-one offline content delivery platform that will bring […]
ESPN has announced new roles for its senior leaders as it builds on the expansion and success of its domestic and global business. Mike Morrison, whose time with ESPN began with the EMEA business in 2007, has led ESPN’s businesses in Asia Pacific (APAC) since 2008. He will return to the U.S. in his new […]
Imagine Communications is working closely with Sinclair Broadcast Group to streamline and customise the distribution of U.S. broadcasters’ children’s programming by centralising playout operations in the public cloud. The new implementation, which went live-to-air in mid-October 2017 and is among the first — if not the first — instance of a major broadcaster moving a […]
StubHub, an eBay company and ticket marketplace, has teamed up with Eurosport to become the company’s online ticketing partner. The partnership means fans visiting Eurosport’s flagship online destination will be able to directly purchase tickets via StubHub to some of the world’s biggest sport and entertainment events. This includes top international football matches from La […]