London based broadcast specialist Vision247, has expanded its global operations with new offices in Dubai and the appointment of Tanya Vidmar to the role of Managing Director, UAE. Vision247 already works with major regional broadcasters including: Al Arabia; MBC; GEM TV and Iqraa, and will now expand its activities with support for local telecoms operators, […]
Arqiva hasn’t paid UK corporation tax since 2004, and British newspaper The Sunday Times accused the UK transmission company of having successfully given the UK taxman “the slip”. Arqiva has a British monopoly on terrestrial television signal distribution, and additionally uplinks over 500 channels to orbiting satellites. Now it might find itself included in a […]
Trace has appointed Chello Central Europe, a business unit of Chellomedia, the international content division of Liberty Global, to grow the distribution of its channels – Trace Sports, Trace Urban and Trace Tropical – in Central & Eastern Europe. The Trace Media Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Chello Central Europe, a Budapest […]
Actus Digital, a developer of web-based media monitoring, content repurposing and verification solutions for broadcasters, has announced that Kabel Deutschland will be rolling out the Actus View enterprise solution. To meet compliance monitoring regulations, Kabel is deploying the multi-site Actus installation in Munich and Frankfurt, recording video/audio for Kabel channels 24/7. Broadcasted media is centralised […]
WRN Broadcast, the international broadcast services company, has announced the investment of over £1million in its London-based media centre. The investment, which will be completed by March 2013, includes a dedicated archive environment – with an additional 2 petabytes worth of storage, a new master control room and a significant upgrade to the current MAM […]
Dominant Spanish telco Telefonica is to sell its 13 per cent stake in satellite operator Hispasat to Spanish infrastructure company abertis and satellite operator Eutelsat for €101 million. The deal sees Telefonica garner a capital gain of €47 million. Abertis paid €68 million for 7.2 per cent of Hispasat, leaving it with 41 per cent […]
Levira, the largest independent provider of TV playout services in the Northern Europe, announced that it has renewed its contract with Turner Broadcasting. Levira will continue offering play-out, opt-out, encoding and distribution services for Turner’s Baltic, Scandinavian and Sub-Saharan channels. “We are delighted to renew our long-standing co-operation with Turner Brodcasting. It is an important […]
Shareholders in Arqiva are set to invest £400 million of fresh equity into the company as part of an agreement to refinance its £3.7 billion debt pile. The TV broadcast business, whose existing debt facility is due to expire in 2014, has struck an agreement to borrow around £2.5 billion from a group of 20 […]
Media & Communication Systems GmbH Sachsen Anhalt (MCS), part of MDR in Germany, has ordered seven revolutionary Grass Valley LDX Première camera systems to improve the flexibility and quality at its MDR Magdeburg broadcast centre. MCS needed a reliable, superior-quality camera to meet the growing demand for HD production, while enabling them to capture content […]
Viewers will have the chance to watch rugby from the referee’s perspective this weekend when new “RefCam” technology is trialled during the Newcastle Falcons game against London Scottish. The trial will involve a three-inch square HD camera being secured to the shirt of referee Matt Carley. The footage, with audio, will be available to Sky’s […]