Advanced Television

Pokémon movie to premiere on Netflix

Netflix and The Pokémon Company International have announced that the newest animated movie based on the  globally popular Pokémon franchise will exclusively premiere on Netflix around the world (outside of Japan and Korea). The movie will go live on February 27th – also known as Pokémon Day to fans of the franchise, as on that […]

January 22, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Arabsat set to drop SSBC

Arabsat is reportedly about to cut off South Sudan Broadcasting Corp (SSBC) from carriage on its satellite. Reports allege that SSBC owes the Saudi Arabia-based satellite operator more than $2 million in fees for its satellite capacity and that SSBC is in “breach of its agreement” with Arabsat. SSBC is carried on Arabsat’s BADR-4 craft. […]

January 22, 2020By Chris Forrester

£18K fine for Sky Sports pub pirate

Thomas Conneely, owner of the Dick Whittington in Watford, has been convicted in his absence of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. Sky Sports is only available to licensed premises in the UK via a […]

January 22, 2020By Colin Mann

FOX News Digital delivers record 2019

FOX News Digital delivered a record year in 2019, setting new highs across multiplatform views, average monthly multiplatform unique visitors, multiplatform minutes, and average monthly mobile app unique visitors, according to Comscore. Driving more than 19 billion multiplatform views for the year, up 12 per cent from 2018, Fox News Digital Network saw the largest […]

January 22, 2020

Starz names Calderoni SVP of International Marketing

Starz, a Lionsgate company, has announced addition of Jose Calderoni as Senior Vice President of International Marketing to the Starz International Digital Networks team. In the newly created role, Calderoni will report directly to Executive Vice President of International Digital Networks Superna Kalle and will be based in the company’s Santa Monica office. Calderoni will […]

January 22, 2020

AWS brings advanced stats to Six Nations

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and Guinness Six Nations are introducing five new, real-time, rugby statistics to give fans deeper insights into on-field action than ever before. The dynamic statistics powered by AWS, will take fans from their sofas and place them at the tactics board in the dressing room by revealing the […]

January 22, 2020

BBC News Arabic goes HD

The BBC’s Arabic News channel is now broadcasting exclusively on Arabsat over the MENA region as well as for European viewers on BADR-4 from 26 degrees East. BBC News Arabic television has signed another long-term agreement with Arabsat to launch exclusively their first Arabic news channel in high resolution to the region, onboard BADR-4. The […]

January 22, 2020By Chris Forrester

Grabyo for darts World Championship content

Ahead of the recent PDC World Darts Championship, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) partnered with Grabyo to deliver an agile content proposition in real-time across its digital channels. With the closure of SnappyTV, PDC needed the ability to capture every twist and turn from the Alexandra Palace oche and distribute it to darts fans globally. […]

January 22, 2020

NETINT joins HDR 10+ Ecosystem as Certified Solution Provider

NETINT Technologies, an innovator of computational storage and video processing SoC solutions, has announced its certification as an official HDR10+ adopter. This certification by HDR10+ Technologies, LLC, ensures manufacturers meet the highest standards of quality and performance for their HDR10+ solutions. HDR10+ Technologies, LLC was founded by Twentieth Century Fox HDR10+, LLC, Panasonic Intellectual Property […]

January 22, 2020

International Tennis Federation selects Imagen

Imagen, the SaaS video management platform business, has been chosen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body of tennis, to manage and distribute its extensive content archive of 15,000 assets dating back to the 1940s from the Davis Cup and Fed Cup competitions. Following a project in which the ITF digitised its […]

January 22, 2020