Advanced Television

182m watch 64th Eurovision Song Contest

The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), the world’s biggest live music event, was seen by 182 million viewers in 2019 across 40 markets, according to Eurodata TV. The Grand Final achieved, on average, a one percentage point higher TV audience share year on year of 36.7 per cent – more than double the average prime-time […]

May 28, 2019

Malaysia DSO by September

Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) says that it will cease broadcasting in analogue by September. MCMC’s chief digital officer Gerard Lim Kim Meng said the digital television project would close the gap of the urban-rural divide by giving local viewers new improved broadcast services for free. The new all-digital bouquet, ‘myFreeview’ has already reached […]

May 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Sea Launch to move to Russia?

Sea Launch, the floating rocket-launch business, might be moving from its Long Beach, California HQ to Russia, according to the Interfax news agency. The plan sees Roscosmos and local airline business S7 relocating Sea Launch to the Far East. Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Russia’s state-owned space agency Roscosmos, told students at the Lomonosov Moscow State […]

May 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Ivory Coast accelerates digital migration with SES

Ivory Coast’s public broadcasting company, the Société Ivoirienne de Télédiffusion (SIDT) has selected SES as its digital partner in a major move to meet the country’s 2020 deadline for switching over from analogue to digital broadcasting. Under this multi-year agreement, 60 analogue turned digital channels will be broadcast via the SES-4 satellite at 22 degrees […]

May 28, 2019

Globecast adds to contribution and distribution teams

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has further strengthened its distribution and contribution teams. Jack Braybrook has joined the content and distribution team as Account Manager, Distribution, and James Whittaker has joined the contribution team as Business Development Manager OU Sports and Events. Both are based in the UK with their roles effectively immediately. […]

May 28, 2019

Vodafone, ESL launch mobile gaming tournament

Vodafone and ESL, the global eSports company, have launched the Vodafone 5G ESL Mobile Open – a mobile gaming tournament with the first Grand Final in competitive international eSports to be played live over a 5G network. The Vodafone 5G ESL Mobile Open will commence on May 31st and run until September 29th, and is […]

May 28, 2019

VIAVI enhances qualification and troubleshooting portfolio

Viavi Solutions has introduced new test and measurement solutions to help service providers and contractors validate, qualify and troubleshoot cable and fiber broadband networks. The two new solutions from VIAVI, the DSP TDR Time Domain Reflectometer and the OCC-4056C DWDM Optical Channel Checker, deliver fast and accurate performance analysis and troubleshooting to ensure successful network […]

May 28, 2019

L&T and Kudelski deliver industrial and automotive IoT solutions

L&T Technology Services, a global pure-play engineering services company and the Kudelski Group, a player in digital security, have announced a multi-faceted partnership to enable connected cars and industrial systems with robust device identity and protect the device, data, decisions, commands and actions. LTTS’ extensive engineering expertise combined with Kudelski’s more than three decades of […]

May 28, 2019

Turkey: Fox chooses Admongrel as strategic partner

Fox Networks has chosen Admongrel as their strategic partner to deliver innovative services in the connected TV market for all of its channels managed and delivered from Turkey. The TR market currently has nearly 2.5 million connected homes. Admongrel’s Analytics and Insights service will be developed to gain more detailed understanding of Fox TV’s audience […]

May 28, 2019

ruwido at anga – design, development and production made in Austria

The future is the present of tomorrow. ruwido’s roots run deep and the company is proud of being able not only to develop and design remote controls within Europe but also to manufacture them at its headquarters in Austria. “This allows us to always be a ‘heartbeat’ ahead in innovation and technology, says Ferdinand Maier, […]

May 27, 2019