Advanced Television

Australian Open to expand global content with Grabyo

Ahead of Australian Open 2019, Graybo has partnered with Tennis Australia to enhance its international video content strategy and expand Tennis Australia’s reach across the globe. Grabyo’s cloud-based video platform will enable Tennis Australia’s digital and social teams to create, edit and distribute real-time video clips and live streams to multiple social and digital platforms […]

January 10, 2019

China: Youku streams Asian Cup 2019

China’s online video portal Youku is streaming all matches of this year’s AFC Asian Cup live, as it looks to expand its HD sports-streaming services. Running from now to February 1st in the United Arab Emirates, the football tournament is the biggest yet, contested by 24 teams instead of the 16 team format that had […]

January 10, 2019

IMPACT Homecoming free on Fight Network UK

The global TV premiere of IMPACT Wrestling’s Homecoming will air on Fight Network UK on January 12th at 9pm. The event has been acclaimed by both critics and fans alike since it aired on PPV last weekend and will now be shown for free on Fight Network UK. Matches on the show include Johnny Impact […]

January 10, 2019By Nik Roseveare

Deluxe appoints Bell as MD

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Bell to Managing Director of its EMEA Distribution Business. Bell, who for the past 15 months has led the company’s distribution operations and technology arm in EMEA, consolidated Deluxe’s theatrical, broadcast and OTT operations and established the company’s new state-of-the-art facility in West London, Deluxe […]

January 10, 2019

TiVo metadata deal with Minerva

TiVo has announced that Minerva Networks, an IPTV specialist and supplier of service management infrastructure for the delivery of pay-TV services, has signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) licence renewal and new global metadata deal to use TiVo as the primary metadata provider for their new cloud service delivery platform, Minerva YourTV Now. “TiVo’s IP […]

January 10, 2019

Simplestream enhances VOD in a Box platform

Simplestream, the specialist in live, live-2-VoD and on-demand OTT services, has strengthened its VOD in a Box technology with download for offline viewing and Chromecast integration across its mobile services. In its latest move to deliver this for its customers, Simplestream now provides Chromecast receiver apps, the flexibility to adjust download bitrates and custom retention […]

January 10, 2019

Salt mobile network migrates to Swisscom

Over the last few days, all of UPC’s Mobile customers have been migrated from the Salt mobile network to that of Swisscom, rated by the 2018 Connect and Chip test as the best mobile network in Switzerland. With this migration, UPC seeks to bring broader coverage and more reliability to its mobile services. The combination […]

January 10, 2019

J:COM selects Verspective Intelligence

Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for network-connected devices and services, has announced that Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) has selected Verspective Intelligence to tap into the benefits of business intelligence capabilities. The solution’s dashboards and visualisation tools enable J:COM to make informed decisions about audiences, content, consumption, and overall service performance. J:COM specifically selected […]

January 10, 2019

Virgin Media extends sponsorship of Broadcasting Press Guild Awards

Virgin Media has today announced it will sponsor the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards for the third consecutive year. The 45th annual BPG Awards will take place in March 2019 and commend the best work in TV and radio in 2018. The awards, given for work commissioned in the UK, are selected independently by TV […]

January 10, 2019

New Amsterdam to launch Feb 8 on Prime UK

Amazon has announced that US medical drama, New Amsterdam, will be available to Prime members in the UK beginning February 8th on Prime Video. Based on the best-selling book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer and his fifteen years as Medical Director at the hospital, New Amsterdam stars Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist) as Dr. Max Goodwin, Janet Montgomery (The Romanoffs) as […]

January 10, 2019