With a broad coalition of US broadcast television station groups announcing plans to deploy Next-Gen TV in the 40 largest US TV markets by the end of 2020, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has described the ATSC 3.0 digital television standard as “a pretty exciting technology that can bring new and creative services to market”. Delivering […]
Avanti Communications has signed what it describes as a “long-term bandwidth contract” with DTH broadcaster Turksat. The London AIM-traded company said that, under the contract, Turksat would commit to 1.8 GHz of capacity on the ‘Hylas 2’ satellite for the next three years, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. The contract […]
Discovery has announced the appointment of veteran communications executive Nathaniel Brown as executive vice president of global communications, based in New York. Brown comes to Discovery from 21st Century Fox, where, as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Media Relations, he served as the deputy global communications chief for the company’s portfolio of cable, broadcast, […]
Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, and FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, announced that they have partnered to offer a scalable, premium OTT video solution to advertisers. Hearst Anyscreen, Hearst Television’s OTT advertising product, will use FreeWheel’s Monetization and Revenue Management (MRM) platform to enhance and expand access to premium OTT video inventory. This will allow […]
Kaltura, a video technology provider, has formed a strategic partnership with Dativa, the TV data consulting company, to develop a data lake dedicated to Cloud TV services. The data infrastructure built based on Dativa’s skills, toolset, and understanding will enable TV marketers using the Kaltura TV Platform fast time to insights and the ability to […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetization platform, has announced an expanded partnership with BrightLine, the market leader in enhanced TV advertising, to deliver a direct pipeline of premium inventory to advertisers, enhanced with BrightLine’s robust suite of personalized and interactive ad formats. The solution streamlines the execution of enhanced ads at scale across over-the-top […]
MediaKind, a global media technology player, has announced at NAB that it has partnered with Google Cloud to enable MediaKind’s entire portfolio of solutions to operate on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Effective immediately, MediaKind customers can leverage and benefit from Google Cloud’s ecosystem of solutions and assets such as TensorFlow and BigTable, global networking, best-in-class […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has announced that Etisalat has achieved Tier 4 full certification of its Tawi Al Saman (Sharjah, UAE) Teleport under WTA’s Teleport Certification Programme. Etisalat becomes the first in MENA region to achieve WTA Tier 4 Full Certification and brings up the number of Tier 4 fully certified teleports around the […]
CamStreamer, a developer of streaming applications for Axis IP cameras, has released a new version of the CamStreamer App. One of the most interesting features of CamStreamer App 3.0 (which is also an official nominee in the NAB Product of the Year Awards) is video streaming via cutting-edge SRT, a video transport protocol that enables […]
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) has announced partnerships with THEO Technologies and Iris.TV to integrate their technologies with the VDMS platform, one of the world’s largest streaming networks. The addition of the THEOplayer Universal Video Player and IRIS.TV’s Video Personalization Platform continue to expand VDMS’ capabilities to deliver high-quality personalized experiences with a simple workflow […]