Millennial Esports will expand its global eSports and motorsport content creation and distribution platform by taking a controlling stake in leading automotive YouTube channel, LetsGoRacing. LetsGoRacing is a YouTube channel that focuses on motorsport and eSports racing content, from the creators of The Apprentice. The channel has achieved more than 40 million views from fans […]
MBC, by any measure the most powerful broadcasting group in the Middle East, is set to lose its CEO Sam Barnett after 17 years at the helm. MBC’s chairman Waleed Al Ibrahim in a note to employees said: “It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that I would like to inform you of […]
A Proton rocket blasted off from its Baikonur, Kazakhstan cosmodrome on October 9th on a long journey to orbit, with two important satellite passengers on board. Lift-off was on time at 10.17 UTC with Eutelsat 5 West B and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV)-1 on board. The pair were in an initial super-synchronous orbit […]
Belgian telco Telenet will start phasing out the radio and television analogue signal in the country, along with its cable network, in autumn 2020. The shut-down procedure will last until the end of 2021. “A large proportion of analogue television viewers will be able to go on watching their usual stations by changing the settings […]
Sea Launch was a scheme to use an adapted oil rig to launch rockets. The project had plenty of successes – 32 launches – but was badly affected by a few failures, and then bankruptcy in 2009. It emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 but has since been somewhat bogged down in various legal disputes with […]
ITV, Channel 4 and Sky are set to launch an ambitious health and wellbeing initiative to promote the importance of healthy eating and exercise for kids in a new three-year partnership. With an airtime investment of £10 million (€11m), the UK’s leading commercial broadcasters aim to reach 90 per cent of UK children and help […]
STARZPLAY, the SVoD service, has utilised its in-house technology, by providing its managed service that encompasses the STARZPLAY Connect Platform to mark the successful launch of Lionsgate Play, a premium entertainment service in India. Developed by STARZPLAY, the STARZPLAY Connect platform enables the delivery of subscription management, billing, content management, video content delivery and connected […]
Altice Labs has unveiled a portfolio of next-generation broadband gateways, powered by RDK software, that will be available for service providers around the globe. Many broadband service providers now support multiple access network technologies (DOCSIS, PON, etc.) across their diverse global footprints. As such, RDK is working with technology leaders such as Altice Labs to […]
ENENSYS Technologies, a provider of media delivery solutions, is announcing new software updates for SmartGate-ATSC, its ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Gateway and MediaCast-ATSC its ATSC 3.0 packager. SmartGate-ATSC associated to MediaCast-ATSC comes as bundle and turn-key solution to implement latest-state-of-the art ATSC 3.0 head-end. MediaCast-ATSC ingests the different content streams such as Linear TV channels and […]
Eutelsat Communications has announced the appointment of Marie-Sophie Rouzaud as Group Chief Human Resources Officer. Her new position will be effective from early 2020. Rouzaud will become a member of the Group’s Executive Committee as of the same date. Rouzaud has an expansive knowledge of Eutelsat, having served as the company’s Head of International Human […]