The all-electric KONNECT communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales and Leonardo, for the international operator Eutelsat Communications, is now undergoing final preparation prior to being shipped to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for a launch planned mid-January 2020. KONNECT will provide high-speed Internet services for markets […]
Amazon Prime Video’s Lord Of The Rings original TV series is still in pre-production, but it has already been renewed for a second season. Amazon revealed to Deadline that a sequel is already in the pipeline and that the show will go on a hiatus for some four months after filming the first two season […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) an Amazon company, has announced that Network 10, one of Australia’s largest TV networks, has selected AWS Media Services to support its video transport structure for remote production in South Africa for its upcoming season of the reality TV series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, and to enhance […]
Inmarsat’s latest satellite, their fifth in their latest series of ‘Global Xpress’ craft, is due to launch on November 22nd. Built by Thales-Alenia Space, it was shipped from its Cannes production facility via Nice airport direct to the Arianespace Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana on October 22nd. Inmarsat GX5 is the most powerful of the […]
Investment firm Thebe Investment Corporation has taken up controlling stakes of 51 per cent in Discover Digital South Africa and 50.1 per cent in Discover Digital International. Discover Digital, an end-to-end digital media, content and fintech solutions provider, has been in existence since 2014. The deal has already been concluded. hebe Media’s primary objective is […]
FOX News Digital finished the month of October delivering its largest month of multiplatform views to date, securing 1.9 billion multi-platform views, (a 24 per cent increase from October 2018) and 4.1 billion total minutes (a 10 per cent increase from October 2018). FOX News Digital also finished at number one in the news competitive […]
Edgeware & Enensys Technologies are forming a technological and global sales alliance. Edgeware, a provider of content preparation, unicast CDN and streaming solutions for broadband operators, and Enensys, a provider of Multicast ABR and LTE Broadcast media streaming solutions to network operators, will cooperate on key opportunities which leverage the strengths of each in their […]
IntSights, the threat intelligence company focused on enabling enterprises to Defend Forward, has raised a $30 million series D to accelerate expansion of the IntSights External Threat Intelligence Suite. Qumra Capital led the round, which was joined by existing investors. IntSights has raised a total of $70 million in capital and, as part of this […]
A+E Networks International has signed a deal for the global distribution of Hernán, a scripted series jointly produced by Spain’s Onza Entertainment and Dopamine, a unit of Mexico’s Grupo Salinas, for distribution in the global market. The new deal marks a watershed moment in the expanding scope of A+E Networks International’s growing IP distribution business. […]
Virgin Media’s latest TV drama Darklands will premiere in the UK exclusively on Virgin TV Ultra HD (channel 999) at 9pm on November 25th. Darklands, a Dublin based crime drama, depicts the stark reality of how a 16-year-old aspiring MMA fighter, Damien Dunne (played by Dane Whyte O’Hara), is dragged into a cacophony of violence, […]