Advanced Television

Fox Sports, Facebook boost Copa Libertadores coverage

Fox Sports has agreed a partnership with Facebook that will see both platforms increase the amount of live football matches they will show from South America’s Copa Libertadores tournament. With the new agreement, Facebook and Fox Sports will exchange Copa Libertadores games and share rights, boosting the number of games from 28 to 46, all available […]

April 10, 2019

Canal+ chooses Cisco CDN; TVbeat data

Cisco has announced that Canal+ has strategically chosen to base its new Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the Cisco NCS 5516 Series platform, using Cisco IOS XR software. Technology disruption within the media market is rapid, with network requirements and expectations changing quickly. End-users are expecting to obtain more and more content with zero delay. […]

April 10, 2019

BT deploys Nokia 7750 SR-s platform

BT is deploying Nokia’s 7750 Service Router (SR)-s platform to boost backbone network capacity in preparation for the continued rise in residential and mobile traffic driven by the traffic demands of FTTP and 5G. Traffic across BT’s core network is growing upwards of 40 per cent year on year, driven by video and gaming over […]

April 10, 2019

Netflix content deal with Ortega

Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall deal with Kenny Ortega – a producer, director, and choreographer best known for the High School Musical franchise. Ortega has directed and choreographed a number of international hits including the Descendants trilogy, Newsies, and Hocus Pocus, and choreographed a plethora of classic movies including Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller’s […]

April 10, 2019By Nik Roseveare

MediaKind expands alliance with Inspur Digital Media

MediaKind, a global player in media technology, is expanding its long-term alliance with Inspur Digital Media to help current TV Service providers shift towards cloud-based delivery. By harnessing Inspur Digital Media’s cloud-based virtualised servers and software running on Inspur Digital Media Openstack cloud, MediaKind will provide an economical and scalable end-to-end solution to TV service […]

April 10, 2019

Freewheel enhances local TV ad buying

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, has announced that its FreeWheel Advertisers division has launched enhancements to its Strata platform that will bring additional automation to the local TV advertising process. These enhancements aim to bring greater efficiencies to many of the tasks associated with buying local TV advertising for both agencies and local broadcasters. The new […]

April 10, 2019

Media Prima partners with Grabyo

Media Prima, Malaysia’s largest integrated media group, has partnered with Grabyo to enhance its social video strategy and bolster its dominance in Malaysia’s digital content market. Ranked as Malaysia’s number one choice for mobile content ahead of Google and Facebook, Media Prima delivers content across a variety of free-to-air TV and radio channels, print publications […]

April 10, 2019

TDF, ENENSYS targeted ad partnership

TDF and ENENSYS announce the conclusion of a strategic partnership aimed at boosting the development of innovative solutions for targeted advertising on DTT. TDF has chosen to partner with ENENSYS Technologies, a major player in advertising insertion, to accelerate the development of its targeted advertising solution dedicated to DTT. The partnership between TDF and ENENSYS […]

April 10, 2019

MX1, Minerva Networks power next-gen OTT

MX1, a global solution provider of media services, has announced a partnership with Minerva Networks, an online video platform (OVP) provider, to offer turnkey, subscription-based and ad-funded OTT video services. The integration of Minerva’s market leading platform with MX1’s proven content management services and global delivery infrastructure will enable media companies, broadcasters, mobile service providers, […]

April 10, 2019

CCNP and MediaKind expand partnership

MediaKind, a global media technology player, announces that CCNP (Consorcio Canales Nacionales Privados) has chosen MediaKind’s Aquila direct to consumer solution to provide best in class Live Encoding and ultimate picture quality on CCNP’s national feed for digital distribution services to consumers across Colombia. The implementation of Aquila combines MediaKind’s video processing system, AVP4000, and […]

April 10, 2019