Ericsson has announced the US launch of a closed captioning service, a service which displays text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. The company will establish a broadcast and media services hub based in Atlanta, Georgia to provide closed captioning and video description services to both […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has revealed details of a contract with BT Media & Broadcast that will extend the reach of MediaCloud, Deluxe’s software orientated broadcast platform, utilising BT’s global network connectivity. The alliance is focused on delivering managed channel origination and distribution globally. Transforming the broadcasting chain from content acquisition through to play-out and […]
Globecast has announced the launch of its new Los Angeles Media Centre, offering broadcasters and content providers a converged workflow to prepare, deliver and playout content to any kind of distribution platform. The new Media Centre compliments established Globecast facilities in London and Singapore, enabling Globecast to offer a truly one-stop-shop for Media Management, Playout, […]
The March 22nd football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be broadcast on planes for the first time in the history of the Spain’s Football League. Spanish broadcaster Mediapro has signed an agreement with Turkish Airlines to air in-flight the game between Spain’s biggest two football teams, often dubbed ‘El Clasico’. A total of […]
Media Broadcast of Germany, a European full-service provider in the broadcasting and media industry, has been awarded the broadcasting capacities to operate a digital terrestrial television platform tendered by the State Media Authorities. The licence is an important step towards making the digital terrestrial television of the future a reality. The DVB-T2 platform that Media […]
Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and SatLink Communications have been selected to provide Pan-African distribution services on AMOS-5 at 17°E for the Orange African Under-20 Football Championship competition. This is a direct result of the successful broadcast of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in January-February by AMOS-5. The current competition is […]
Harmonic, an expert in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that Al-Baghdadia, an independent Iraqi-owned Arabic-language satellite channel based in Cairo, has selected Harmonic equipment for its Egyptian Media Production City facilities to enable a smooth transition to HD. Supplied by Cairo systems integrator AV Solutions, Harmonic’s market-leading Spectrum media servers, together with the WFS file-based […]
Nilesat is using the upcoming CabSat satellite show in Dubai to launch its new Smart Digital Broadcasting platform, which sees improved compression and multiplexing covering 360 TV channels and 120 radio stations. The technology, supplied by Cisco, Bridge Technologies, Newtec and Meratech, has the ability to be expanded to cover 480 TV channels. Nilesat currently […]
Satellite operator SES turned in better than expected numbers for its 2014 trading year, with revenues up 4 per cent (at constant foreign exchange rates) at €1.91 billion, and profits up 6 per cent at €600 million. Transponder utilisation during Q4 was up 1.3 per cent at 81.1 per cent. Net profit for the year […]
Telestream, a provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced the completion of a project with Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ. Working with its channel partner, Eurotek, Telestream has supplied its Lightspeed server system running Vantage Transcode Pro for integration within the broadcaster’s new FAST file-based media management system. FAST is RTÉ’s file-based content media […]