DNA will continue distributing Yle’s HD channels to households over the terrestrial network in the coming year. The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle and DNA have agreed to continue the channels’ distribution via DNA’s terrestrial network, as before. The network covers some 85 per cent of Finnish households. All four Yle HD channels can be viewed […]
A group of broadcast and media industry suppliers including Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, Snell Advanced Media and Nevion have collaborated to form the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). This new, independent trade association’s mandate is to bring IP solutions to market that offer complete interoperability, are based on open standards, and integrate seamlessly […]
At the annual MRS Awards ceremony, BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s main commercial arm, and global panel provider, Lightspeed GMI, were awarded the MRS Award for Advertising & Media Research for their audience research project, conducted by emotion intelligence platform CrowdEmotion. Awarded to projects that prove the power that can be found in research, the MRS […]
Rohde & Schwarz has won the contract for a nationwide broadcast network in Albania. The delivery for the two DVB-T2 multiplexes will include R&S TMU9 medium-power transmitters, R&S AVHE100 headends, R&S ETL TV analyzers and R&S XLx UHF/VHF transposers as gap fillers. RTSH is receiving the most energy-efficient transmitter systems on the market, with power […]
NRK, the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, has chosen Thomson Video Networks’ EM4000 premium video compression solution to power a complete upgrade of its broadcast infrastructure. Working with Thomson Video Networks’ NetProcessor multiplexer and MediaFlexSUITE Network Management System, the ViBE EM4000 provides a single compression platform with four-channel density and superior video […]
Eutelsat celebrated the 10th Anniversary of its listing on the Paris bourse by holding an Investors Day in Paris on December 1st. The mood was decidedly upbeat , and presentation followed presentation in outlining the opportunities – and obvious challenges – ahead. Outgoing CEO Michel de Rosen told analysts that the company had grown significantly […]
Norwegian has become the first airline to offer live TV on board European flights. Passengers using Norwegian’s free inflight WiFi can now watch Bloomberg Television and Norway’s TV 2 News live on the airline’s fleet of 87 WiFi equipped aircraft. The service is available on flights from the UK to 29 destinations around Europe. Norwegian […]
Daystar Television, one of the largest religious broadcasters in the world, is launching its network in HD on Sky, which is supported by Arqiva’s DTH satellite solution. This launch makes Daystar Television the first religious TV channel to launch an HD channel, on the Sky platform, in the UK. David Crawford, Managing Director, Satellite & […]
Spacecom, which operates the ‘Amos’ fleet of satellites, told the Tel Aviv stock exchange on Saturday November 21st that it has lost contact with its latest Amos-5 spacecraft. The satellite is relatively new having been launched in December 2011 to the 17 degree East orbital position. Amos-5 was built by a Russian company, M. H. […]
Arkena announced the integration of NexGuard Pre-Release in its Cloud4Media content management platform. Developed by Nexguard (a Civolution company), NexGuard Pre-Release is a watermarking solution for the digital forensic tracking of video assets. Cloud4Media is a global solution for storage, transcoding and secure content delivery, powered by Harmony, a workflow orchestration engine dedicated to media. NexGuard Pre-Release solution is based on File Embedder and […]