South Africa’s Openview free-to-air digital platform says it has now activated more than 1.57 million receivers, and is activating new viewers at the rate of some 35,000 boxes a month. Openview is majority held (67.7 per cent) by eMedia Holdings, an independent South African broadcaster. In its annual results eMedia Holdings (to March 31st) Openview […]
India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has restructured its commercial arm. Out goes the tarnished and disgraced Antrix Corporation, and in comes New Space India Ltd (NSIL). NSIL was formally inaugurated in Bengaluru last week with a mandate to scale up participation in India’s space programmes. NSIL now looks after all the commercial activity of ISRO […]
In what DTC Broadcast describe as its “largest 4K order” yet, they are to supply 16 complete AEON-TX 4K transmitters, PRORXD-AEON receivers, antennas and ancillaries to Chinese broadcaster CCTV – DTC’s first major customer in the country. The order was sourced via DTC’s Hong Kong partner Ideal Systems. The first shipments to China will occur […]
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, division has opened a new Security Test Lab to test and examine the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for service providers and manufacturers. The new facility is based in Groningen, Netherlands (and operated by Qbit). Eurofins’ IoT Security Test […]
ESPN+ has reached an agreement to be the exclusive English-language home in the US for the 2019 CONMEBOL Copa America. The 46th CONMEBOL Copa America will be played from June 14th to July 7th throughout Brazil. All 26 matches – from the opening kick to the Final – will stream live on ESPN+, the direct-to-consumer […]
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced Netflix as the main supporting partner for their flagship talent scheme ‘Breakthrough Brits’, which showcases and supports the next generation of creative talent across film, games and television. Building on the success of ‘Breakthrough Brits’, now in its seventh year, the partnership with Netflix […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and HD PLUS, a subsidiary of satellite provider SES and operator of the HD+ satellite platform, have renewed their technology partnership and extended it to include content protection on Smart TVs. NAGRA content protection supports the recently announced HD PLUS […]
Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, N.C., Digital Alert Systems, Triveni Digital and Verance has announced the successful completion of an end-to-end broadcaster to receiver test using ATSC 3.0 Advanced Emergency Information (AEA), a new technology enhancing broadcasters’ emergency communications and operational capabilities. Compared to today’s system, AEA allows programmers to deliver far more sophisticated emergency […]
Forsway, a provider of innovative solutions and hardware for tapping satellite and existing terrestrial technologies to enable cost-efficient broadband, has received a prestigious grant of the EU’s flagship Horizon 2020 research and innovation project to further develop its technology. Forsway has been granted Euro 50K of the H2020 project to further develop its vision that […]
Triveni Digital has announced a new ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Gateway, rounding out the company’s end-to-end solutions for delivering next-generation broadcast television services. The Broadcast Gateway supports ATSC 3.0 broadcast services in HD and UHD, enabling stations to easily generate ATSC 3.0 signal information via user-defined transmission parameters. “The transition to ATSC 3.0 is not going […]