A spectacular marine documentary, captured in 8K UHD by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has won an IBC Innovation Award at the 2025 event. NHK’s Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth, which successfully filmed the world’s-first video images of a group of coelacanths and their behaviour indicative of reproduction using 8K HDR and 22.2 multichannel surround […]
HBO and HBO Max received 30 Emmy awards across 12 original programmes at the 77th annual Emmy Awards which took place in Los Angeles on September 14th, hosted by Nate Bargatze. The Penguin was the biggest winner for HBO, with the DC Comics series – a spin-off of The Batman movie featuring Colin Farrell in […]
Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has appointed Erik Jordan as its new VP, Content Strategy, US. Based in Los Angeles and reporting to Ben Arnold, SVP, Commercial Operations, Jordan will lead and scale the Little Dot Studios US Content Strategy team. In this senior role, he will drive the creative vision for the agency […]
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a collaboration of innovators working together to define and deploy open standards that power the next generation of media experiences, has announced the upcoming launch of the next evolution in open video coding: AV2. Set for a year-end release, AV2 is not only an upgrade to the widely adopted […]
WBITVP (Warner Bros International Television Production) has secured international distribution rights to the hit TF1 French format The Final Circle. Created by Satisfaction, part of France’s Satisfaction Group, The Final Circle is the primetime quiz show that puts contestants under pressure to prove not just what they know, but the full power of their brain. […]
Harmonic has announced that SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC), a satellite operator and pay-TV provider in Japan, has partnered with Harmonic to modernise its broadcast playout and delivery workflow. Leveraging Harmonic’s software-based XOS Advanced Media Processor, SJC can cost-effectively deliver exceptional video quality to viewers and tap into new business models to drive revenue growth. […]