beIN Sports will exclusively broadcast this year’s CONMEBOL Copa América football tournament in Australia and New Zealand. This latest deal strengthens beIN’s existing partnership with CONMEBOL, the South American Football Confederation, supplementing the agreements already in place under which beIN has the rights to broadcast the CONMEBOL Copa América 2019 – which is taking place […]
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is providing a testing ground for new audio technology that is transforming the way content is produced and consumed. The EBU and its technology partners are mounting a parallel production of the event, mixing and transmitting it live with Next Generation Audio in the MPEG-H Audio format. The content is […]
SpaceX cancelled its planned May 16th launch, the second such delay this week. The first cancellation was down to bad weather, but this latest delay was down to a need to “triple check” the rocket’s software. A Tweet from Elon Musk’s team said: “Always want to do everything we can on the ground to maximise […]
Thomas Lasarzik has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Group Content Acquisitions & Sales at ProSiebenSat.1 Television Deutschland. In this position, he is responsible for the negotiation and acquisition of all licensed content, including films and TV series for the group’s channels and platforms. He reports to Henrik Pabst, Chief Commercial Officer Entertainment. Joining ProSiebenSat.1 […]
Eurosport’s 360-degree, all-screen approach to powering people’s passions for cycling is reaping rewards at the Giro d’Italia with significant growth in people watching its coverage and consuming its content than 12 months ago across Europe. Key statistics (after five stages): Second best start to a Giro d’Italia for 10 years across the Eurosport network (only […]
Limelight Networks, a provider of edge cloud services, has opened its 100th Point-of-Presence (PoP). Since January 2018, Limelight has increased global network capacity by 40 percent to 42Tbps of egress capacity. In addition to expanding the number of PoP locations around the globe, Limelight’s technology is also embedded deeper into service provider networks through its […]
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for set-top box (STB) and multiscreen digital entertainment, has been selected by German children’s broadcaster SUPER RTL for the relaunch of Kividoo, its SV0D service aimed at youngsters aged 2-13 years. 3SS was chosen to design and deploy apps with customised UIs for viewing on Android […]
Cablenet, a quad play provider in Cyprus, has announced the availability of Ultra WiFi, Powered by Plume. Plume provides Wi-Fi, personalisation, and security delivered through a smart home services bundle featuring Adaptive WiFi, HomePass, and AI Security. Ultra WiFi, Powered by Plume includes the full Plume services bundle accessed through the highly-rated Plume App, two […]
Producer and Distributor Prime Entertainment has announced a major package deal inked with UKTV for 100 episodes of its cinema related series to be aired in the UK territory starting this June. The deal includes a significant package from the series Director’s Short Cut 250×4’, the show where viewers can get the most fascinating stories […]
Virgin Media Ireland has today launched a major new campaign marking the launch of our game changing Smart WiFi technology providing all broadband Virgin customers who are already enjoying Ireland’s fastest broadband network with an increased level of in home WiFi reliability. The campaign is all about new technology which Virgin Media has now activated in […]