Red Bee Media, the media services company, has signed a multi-year deal with Australia’s Network Ten to provide captioning services for broadcast. Under the terms of the deal, Red Bee Media will provide live and file captioning services across Network Ten’s three free-to-air channels – TEN, ELEVEN and ONE. The deal extends one of the […]
London Live has hired leading digital technology agency Engine6 to develop the online delivery platforms for the highly-anticipated channel due to launch in Spring 2014. Engine6 has brought in creative design studio 100 Shapes who have worked on iPlayer and Blinkbox to develop the user experience. The brief for Engine6 is to create an online, […]
Broadcast services and technology provider Satellite Information Services Limited (SIS) is to withdraw from the Outside Broadcast (OB) market, citing commoditisation of the market and contract renewal difficulties. It took the decision following a strategic review of its OB activities. It is understood that some 240 jobs are at risk. SIS’s Chief Executive Gary Smith […]
Brazil’s TV Vitoria/Record, delivering news and other informational programming to millions of viewers across Brazil, has selected an end-to-end solution from Grass Valley to facilitate a quick and smooth transition from SD to HD. Grass Valley is supplying the station with a GV STRATUS nonlinear media production toolset, eight EDIUS Elite nonlinear editing software seats, […]
Grass Valley has announced that it will be exhibiting at the Sportel Monaco World Sports Content Media Convention being held from October 14-17, 2013 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, France. Visitors to the Grass Valley stand (K10/Diaghilev Hall) will see first-hand how the company’s innovative live and sports dedicated workflows boost productivity and increase […]
Loft London, a global digital media hub, further expands its services into the Russian region by agreeing an exclusive contract with Moscow based Central Partnership to provide content processing services. Central Partnership owns the largest media library in Russia comprising over 1,400 features and 4,000 hours of TV series and distribute theatrical and TV rights […]
Satellite operators SES and Eutelsat are working together to ensure a smooth transition of operations on frequencies at 28.5°E following the Tribunal decision that concluded the first phase of arbitration in September 2013 and a preliminary injunction which gives SES the rights to the disputed frequencies. As of October 4th, SES is operating and Eutelsat […]
UK regulator Ofcom has revealed the organisations taking part in Europe’s first major pilot of ‘white space’ technology, which could help support the next wave of wireless innovation. The UK will be among the first countries in the world to road-test the technology. ‘White spaces’ exist in between frequency bands that have been reserved for […]
The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred the anticipated acquisition by Ericsson of broadcast services provider Red Bee Media Limited (RBM) to the Competition Commission (CC). After careful consideration, the OFT has found that the merger might lead to an increase in prices or a worsening of service levels in the supply of […]
A Canadian pension fund is reportedly looking to buy a 25 per cent stake in British satellite services and transmission company Arqiva. Australian fund manager Macquarie is said to be selling the portion. Macquarie’s Singapore-based International Infrastructure Fund sold an 8.7 per cent stake in March 2010 for £115 million (€135m). The buyer on that […]