Italian thematic channel producer Giglio Group has acquired M-Three SatCom, a Milan-based provider of services and solutions for the broadcast sector. M-Three Sat-Com operates two satellite teleports (in Milan and Rome), a fleet of outside broadcast units for production and transmission, and a fibre optics infrastructure able to reach points of access and media centres […]

Automated playout specialist, BroadStream Solutions, has provided Made Television, the City TV licence holder for Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Tyne and Wear and Teeside (still to launch), with an integrated playout solution for Made to manage all of their channels. BroadStream, along with independent broadcast systems integrator Megahertz, worked with Made Television to design a tailored, […]

TVT, the independent media services and post-production house, has extended its contract with UKTV and will be providing media management services to the broadcaster until 2020. TVT’s end-to-end services will ensure high quality video is delivered across all 11 of UKTV consumer brands, including Dave, Gold, Really, Good Food, Alibi, Yesterday and UKTVPlay (UKTV’s on […]

@IBC 2015 Advanced Television hears from Doug Lowther, CEO of Irdeto, about its platform approach to security – protection not just for video but across the service provider’s portfolio, including the Smart Home applications and Internet Of Things.     [bitsontherun IhAPUYEz-ni7dlelE]

Satellite services provider Intelsat has confirmed that African communications network specialist Sentech has extended its contract for multiple years. Sentech will continue to leverage Ku-band capacity on Intelsat 20 at 68.5˚E to expand and enhance cost-effectively its Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) services in Africa. The Intelsat 20 satellite will provide Sentech with […]

HEVC Advance announced that leading semiconductor company MediaTek is the newest member of the patent pool, bringing with it one of the most significant HEVC/H.265 patent portfolios in the world. MediaTek is a cutting-edge leader in providing SoC technology for mobile and home entertainment hardware and has been at the forefront of the creation and […]

Intelsat has had a terrible week, with its share price tumbling 5.5 per cent on September 22, but having collapsed from $9.83 to just $7.91 over the past five trading days. Intelsat shares are down by 54 per cent since the start of the year. Now the Financial Times is reporting that the company is […]

Satellite operator SES Astra and Cellnex Telecom, the recently-rebranded telecoms subsidiary of Spanish infrastructure company Abertis, are pitched against each other in bidding to win contracts to extend DTT coverage to remote areas in the country. Several Regions in Spain have launched public tenders to award the contracts to take the DTT signal to around […]

Satellite builder Lockheed-Martin (L-M) says it has received “considerable interest” in the part-completed Ka-band satellite (Jabiru-1) originally ordered and being built for Australia’s NewSat. NewSat, and its various subsidiaries, which are now in bankruptcy. L-M says the satellite is about 70 per cent complete, and they have had 13 expressions of interest in the satellite, […]