Satellite networking technology specialist Gilat Satellite Networks has successfully demonstrated carrying 5G traffic with what it says is “outstanding performance” over operator Thaicom’s GEO HTS satellite. With this successful demonstration, Gilat’s cellular backhaul solution is declared operational and ready for implementation in the 5G architecture. According to Gilat, superior user experience was recorded using its […]
Content protection services provider Friend MTS has appointed Dennis Scott as Director, Channel Sales, to drive the effort and engage with the company’s high-profile media partners and customers that include content owners, broadcasters and operators, leading a global partner programme initiative. Friend MTS continues to combat piracy in sports and entertainment with technologies fully developed […]
South Africa’s government is supporting moves to build and launch its own satellite for broadband and internet. The proposal comes in a report from the ‘Africa in Focus 2020’ study backed by the Brookings Institute and its Fourth Industrial Commission (4IR). South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has already endorsed the idea, and says it would […]
StarHub has announced a partnership with iQIYI for customers to have access to some 3,000 of the most popular Asian dramas and movies on their mobile phones or TVs through the Singapore entertainment service, StarHub TV+. Boasting one of the largest Chinese content libraries in the world, China-based iQIYI becomes the seventh OTT entertainment service […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based technology for broadcast TV and streaming TV, today announced that Tarima TV, the first Latin concert channel has partnered with Amagi to bring a superior concert experience of Latino music on TV to music lovers and the larger Hispanic audience in the US. Available as a 24×7 linear TV […]
It has been a year of big Broadway shows coming into viewer’s living rooms, with Hamilton on Disney+, a Sky partnership with the National Theatre, and now American Utopia hitting the small screen. And, like Hamilton, David Byrne’s musical has reached a far larger audience in one week of streaming than it did in 106 […]
RTL Group has completed the sale of its entire shareholding in Vancouver-based BroadbandTV to BBTV Holdings for €102 million (C$158.8million). RTL Group says the sale is consistent with its three-priority strategy –core, growth, alliances & partnerships –which includes continuously reviewing the Group’s portfolio and growing its European digital assets in the areas of streaming, advertising […]
Telemundo Deportes has reached a broadcast agreement with Xtreme Fighting Championships (XFC) to present Spanish-Language coverage of the sport live in the US. Expanding the organisation’s existing partnership with NBC Sports, live coverage of XFC events will be broadcast on Telemundo’s sister network, Universo, beginning with XFC 43 on November 11th. “We are pleased to […]
Ateme, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, is joining the Media Technology Partner (MTP) programme of Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences. As a Media Technology Partner, Ateme’s video delivery solutions, including encoding/transcoding and packaging, will demonstrate technical integration, interoperability, and alignment with Akamai’s media products. Ateme will prepare content […]
A poll conducted by the Official Charts Company and FindAnyFilm.com to celebrate Must See Movies 80s, part of the National Album Day celebrations, has found that Back To The Future as the UK’s favourite 80s movie. The poll was launched to mark Must See Movies 80s, a promotion that saw participating stores including Amazon, ASDA, […]