Haystack News, an ad-supported, US news streaming service that connects viewers with hyper-relevant local, national and world TV news, has shared details for new streaming channels launching this month dedicated to ongoing local, national and global coverage of the two Georgia Senate Runoff elections (January 5th – 7th) and the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden […]
YouTube has removed TalkRadio’s channel from its platform. It has not given an explanation for its action, but there is speculation that it relates to its rules on Covid-19-related misinformation, according to the BBC. Fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the station. TalkRadio said it was seeking an […]
All four seasons of iconic US teen drama The OC will be launching on the All 4 streaming service on January 22nd. The multiple award-winning show presents the lives of a group of friends and family whose lives have forever been changed by the arrival of an outsider to their affluent oceanside community of Newport […]
Live Tech Games has announced that its live mobile tournament game – Roshambo Live – has been selected by ITV’s newly created Studio 55 Ventures arm (launched in September 2020). Roshambo is a live mobile gaming experience – a head to head tournament of Rock Paper Scissors – that has quietly been taking the country […]
US streaming platform HBO Max has announced that it will be the exclusive home to WarnerMedia Germany’s series Arthur’s Law, which is set to premiere on January 7th. The German-language dark comedy has won multiple awards including a Rockie Award as “best non-English comedy series.” In the show, unemployed Arthur Ahnepol ekes out a bleak existence. Drawn from the strains […]
A new BBC Radio 1 podcast, Di’s Salon with Dianne Buswell, will launch on January 21st on BBC Sounds. Before Strictly Come Dancing, Buswell was a full-time professional hairdresser and for her new podcast she’ll be going back to her roots as she invites some famous faces to join her in a virtual salon. Over […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]