Advanced Television

Telestream simplifies IMF file oroduction & delivery with CaptionMaker and Vantage enhancements

Telestream, a provider of workflow automation, media processing, quality monitoring and test and measurement solutions for the production and distribution of video, has announced enhancements to its CaptionMaker authoring software and the Vantage Media Processing Platform. They provide all the production tools required by major broadcast networks and content distributors who have standardized on the […]

January 5, 2021

Camilleri joins OKAST as Strategic Advisor

Jean-François Camilleri will join the team of OKAST, a leading platform in the deployment of white label SVoD services, as Strategic Advisor. With a long experience in the film industry, he will bring all his expertise in this sector. President of The Walt Disney Company France for more than 10 years after having been Managing […]

January 5, 2021

Amazon Prime Video launches The Great Escapists trailer

Amazon Prime Video has released the first look trailer for Richard Hammond & Tory Belleci’s new series The Great Escapists. The Great Escapists is the story of Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Belleci (Mythbusters), two of pop-science TV’s greatest minds, with nothing but their smarts and their scrap shipwreck for survival. Can they invent themselves off […]

January 5, 2021

Truespeed predictions 2021

Henry West, Truespeed Commercial Director, has offered his predictions for 2021: A spotlight on bandwidth Ask anyone in the WFH gang about connectivity and they will impress on you the importance of fast, reliable broadband. Home workers’ struggles with spinning wheels and dropped video calls has led to a surge of interest in what infrastructure […]

January 5, 2021

ZEE5 Global unveils Jan 2021 line-up

ZEE5 Global, the largest OTT platform for South Asian content, has announced its line-up of content to kickstart the new year. Raising the curtains on 2021 on January 1, the much-anticipated ZEE5 Original Nail Polish takes us on a hypnotic journey of the uncertainties of the human mind. Nail Polish features an ensemble cast including […]

January 5, 2021

The Académie des César chooses Kinow to create screening room

The Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, also known as the Académie des César, is the institution in France that rewards professionals in the film industry. This year, the Académie des César decided to use the Kinow solution to create its first online viewing platform exclusively for its 4,300 voting members. Since its creation in […]

January 5, 2021

Forecast: 2bn OTT subscriptions in 2025

A report from Juniper Research has found that there will be nearly 2 billion active global subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025; a 65 per cent increase over the end of 2020. The primary engine for this growth will be from traditional broadcasters, who are increasingly turning to streaming services in order to

January 4, 2021

Italy adds 2.1m SVoD subs in 2020

SVoD services added 2.1 million subscribers in Italy during 2020, taking the total to 10.7 million in October, according to a study by EY in collaboration with Discovery and Fastweb. The study took into account OTT services Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, TIMVision, Infinity, NOW TV, Eurosport Player, Apple+ and DAZN. However, the overall number […]

January 4, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

FCC C-band auction touches $70bn

The FCC’s Action 107, which looks after the sale of frequencies covered by the release of the satellite sector’s C-band 3.7 GHz spectrum, continues to break all records. Two bidding rounds on December 23rd took the overall amount of cash on the table to a thumping $69.83 billion. The position added some $3.5 billion during […]

January 4, 2021By Chris Forrester

Roku to buy Quibi content?

Short-form mobile streaming service Quibi is in discussions to sell its content catalogue to streaming device and platform specialist Roku, according to the Wall Street Journal. The platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg launched in April 2020, as the pandemic began to take a firm hold, before announcing in October 2020 that it would wind down operations […]

January 4, 2021By Colin Mann