Samsung Electronics UK has announced that comedy streaming service NextUp will be joining its Smart Start platform. NextUp viewers can experience stand-up comedy with live streams direct from the UK’s best comedy venues including The Comedy Store and The Pleasance. Users can also watch on-demand hundreds of stand-up comedy specials, all ad-free. Included within Samsung’s […]
Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS), a global media services provider, has joined the SRT Alliance, a collaborative community striving to achieve lower latency internet video transport. The SRT Alliance, founded by Haivision in April 2017, already has more than 500 members. Its mission is to overcome the challenges of low-latency live streaming by supporting the collaborative […]
Transcription, access and localisation services provider to the media and entertainment sector, Take 1, has entered into an agreement to acquire Maryland-based transcription and captioning company, Verb8tm. The transaction is scheduled to close on the December 31st 2021 and Take1 says it will strengthen its position in the US with the addition of Verb8tm’s staff […]
Filmzie, the free movie and TV streaming platform, has announced its expansion in the US market, by launching its service on the Roku platform. The streaming service’s free film and TV catalogue will now be available for Roku users in the US. Viewers can find any film or series from the wider Filmzie slate via […]
Television viewers in Houston, the eighth-largest TV market in the US, can now experience the future of broadcast television as 10 local TV stations launch digital broadcast technology NEXTGEN TV, using the digital television standard ATSC 3.0. Now broadcasting in 35 markets, NEXTGEN TV is expected to reach 45 per cent of US television households […]
Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company, has been selected by the Azerbaijani television industry to supply its technology for the launch of a new TV audience measurement currency in the country. Kantar experts will also support local organisation MARSA (Azerbaijan Media Audience Research System) in the implementation of a nationally representative panel of 960 […]
Video streaming and ad tech supplier Velocix has supported the expansion of Vodafone Deutschland’s GigaTV service as part of a multi-year agreement for its open audio-video pipeline software, including its carrier-grade CDN, origin server, and video personalisation platform Vodafone Deutschland provides pay-TV services to more than 13 million subscribers and operates Germany’s largest cable TV […]
UK-based Truespeed has announced the appointment of James Lowther as CEO, with immediate effect, succeeding former CEO Evan Wienburg. Lowther brings over 16 years’ experience in the telecoms sector, most recently as Group Chief Commercial Officer at mobile company Lebara, and previously as Chief Marketing Officer at Gigaclear. Prior to this, he spent four years […]
Vewd, a provider of OTT software solutions, and Intertrust ExpressPlay, a specialist in media security and anti-piracy services, have announced that its ExpressPlay XCA content security solution has joined the Vewd Operator TV ecosystem. With ExpressPlay XCA pre-integrated, pay-TV operators now have a complete smart TV platform on which they can offer secure broadcast and […]
Building on its relationship with Los Angeles-based Crown Media Family Networks, Globecast has announced that it’s now providing the media company with evolutionary primary cloud playout services for its three channels: Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama — which reach more than 150 million homes in the US. The five-year deal solidifies Globecast’s management […]