Advanced Television

Discovery grows Australian Open audience

discovery+ and Eurosport have seen sizable audience and digital engagement growth recorded across Discovery’s platforms during The Australian Open. Television and streaming audiences have so far seen double-digit year-on-year increases across the 50 countries and territories where Discovery presents the Australian Open. Featuring extended news reporting and on-demand video, Eurosport’s ebsote and its local country […]

January 24, 2022

Cloud workflows aid carbon net zero live production

A team of sports broadcasters, rights owners and technology vendors, collaborating as part of IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, have revealed the initial results from an English Premier League production workflow trial to support the goal of a carbon ‘net zero’ future for live productions. Together, they demonstrate how innovative remote & cloud production workflows […]

January 24, 2022

RealD hits 500 screen installs

RealD, a pioneer in the development of 3D technology, has installed its 500th RealD Ultimate Screen. The latest and 500th Ultimate Screen is located at the Wanda Cinema Xiamen Guankou branch in China. The cinema location, which features the premium brand named Prime at Wanda utilising RealD’s 500th Ultimate Screen, celebrated its launch last month. […]

January 24, 2022By Chris Forrester

Extreme E, Dubai Sports renew partnership

Extreme E, the electric SUV off-road racing series, has renewed its broadcast partnership with Dubai Sports that will see the sport for purpose championship screened live across the United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa for Season 2. Extreme E will continue to highlight the impact climate change has had on the planet, whilst […]

January 24, 2022

Le Mans Virtual Series: 81m audience

The five-round 2021-22 Le Mans Virtual Series, which concluded with the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, registered impressive, cumulated TV and digital audience figures of more than 81 million throughout its five-month season. The grand finale to the Le Mans Virtual Series held on January 15th and 16th, 2022 brought together 50 cars with […]

January 24, 2022

Sky welcomes staff back to expanded London HQ

Sky is now welcoming all staff back to its offices in light of new government guidance, and will open a new building in its West London HQ later in 2022 Sky has confirmed it will move to ‘hybrid working’ for employees across business areas and locations throughout Europe. Dana Strong, Group Chief Executive, Sky, commented: […]

January 24, 2022

Shenmue series to premiere on Crunchyroll, Adult Swim

Shenmue the Animation will premiere on February 5th on Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. The English dubbed version will air in North America on Toonami, Adult Swim’s signature anime block, and Crunchyroll will stream the subtitled version worldwide outside of Japan and China. A story of revenge and self-discovery, Shenmue debuted first as a video game […]

January 24, 2022By Nik Roseveare

yallo expands Gbit speed Internet throughout Switzerland

Four months after the launch of yallo TV, yallo is expanding its position as a full-service provider in Switzerland. Christoph Richartz, Chief YOL Officer at Sunrise UPC, commented: “Thanks to the hybrid fibre network from Sunrise UPC, we can now reach more than twice as many households with gigabit-speed Internet. This will complete our portfolio […]

January 24, 2022

Sky Arts orders Gods of the Game: A Football Opera

Sky Arts has commissioned a new opera about corruption in football which will coincide with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Sung in English across 90 minute, this celebration and condemnation of the world’s most popular sport will play to in-person audiences at Grange Park Opera, Surrey in October, airing on Sky Arts, NOW and […]

January 24, 2022

Skyline Communications rolls out new DataMiner solutions

Skyline Communications, a provider of end-to-end vendor- and domain-agnostic digital transformation platforms, is rolling out a wealth of new DataMiner solutions. These will enable operators within the ICT media and broadband industry to increase their value proposition in a new data-driven and cloudified future. The key ingredients for this new generation of DataMiner solutions are […]

January 24, 2022