Advanced Television

JW Player taps Oracle Data Cloud

JW Player, the independent video platform, has announced an integration with Oracle Data Cloud to strengthen JW Player’s video ad targeting solution, ensuring brands have relevant and suitable inventory for their customers. This integration enhances the JW Player solution by providing transparency across video formats for brands who are increasingly focused on contextual targeting for […]

February 3, 2020

SES O3b mPOWER network for Princess Cruises

Princess Cruises, a brand of the Carnival Corporation, has announced a new dimension in its connectivity partnership with SES and will become the first global cruise ship fleet with early access to SES’s O3b mPOWER network augmenting the Princess MedallionClass experience as it scales across the fleet. SES is enabling global, high-performance connectivity to Princess […]

February 3, 2020

The Chase to launch in Spain

ITV Studios has confirmed that long-running quiz show The Chase, has been commissioned by TVE-owned LA1 in Spain, becoming the 14th territory to order the show. The show will be produced by Mediacrest. It is also to return in Israel on KAN 11, where last year it won the award for Best Game Show at […]

February 3, 2020

Sepp joins Levira as EVP of Sales and Member of the Board

Levira welcomes its new Executive Vice President of Sales and Member of the Board Veiko Sepp, whose previous work experience includes management of Ericsson’s Baltic organisations as well as mentoring and business consultancy for startups. “During his long career, Veiko Sepp has initiated and implemented numerous successful projects, including the launch of 2G, 3G and […]

February 3, 2020

Weyyak reveals first original Arabic content for Ramadan 2020

As part of its ongoing strategic planning initiatives, Weyyak has kickstarted 2020  by announcing their first original content production, for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. This comes after last year’s Ramadan initiatives which brought exclusive high quality productions to the platform, most notably the 10th season of the acclaimed Bab Al Hara series. This […]

February 3, 2020

Arsenal FC transforms live video backhaul with AWS

Since its founding in 1886, UK-based Football Club Arsenal has garnered an estimated fanbase of more than 100 million worldwide, and today, social media and digital video play a crucial role in engaging those followers. Video coverage of ‘friendlies’ matches, in particular, has become popular with their fans across the world. To complement its primary […]

February 3, 2020

Coronavirus hits China’s LCD/OLED panel output

A report from IHS Markit Technology says that the growing coronavirus crisis is impacting production of LCD and OLED panels, including fabrication plants in the quarantined city of Wuhan. The five factories in Wuhan producing liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels will experience near-term slowdowns in production compared to expected levels, […]

February 1, 2020By Chris Forrester