BT Wholesale has won a six year renewal of a contract to provide its Television Outside Broadcast service to Sky Sports. The TVOB service – part of BT Wholesale’s Media and Broadcast arm – provides temporary outside broadcast vision, audio and data links from remote venues into Sky Studios, Sky’s state-of-the-art broadcast facility, for onward […]

Teleste Corporation and Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), a telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, has announced the deployment of the Teleste Luminato video headend platform and Teleste Broadcast Manager service to the MTS nationwide digital TV headend network. Fixed broadband network and digital services development is one of MTS’s key interests. MTS has already implemented […]

The planned launch last Friday evening (January 29) has again been delayed because of problems on the Proton/Breeze-M rocket. The satellite was originally scheduled for a launch back on December 26, when it was delayed for technical reasons. This latest delay looks more worrying. Russian federal space agency Roscosmos admits the delay is “indefinite” and […]

ERA Ltd, an IT infrastructure and application reseller specialising in Post Production, Broadcast and Media, will showcase its latest multi-client workflow automation solution and launch a new cost-effective platform for secure collaborative editing at Broadcast VideoExpo, Earls Court 2, London, 14-16 February 2012 (Stand K54). ERA MediaFlow is an enterprise-class multi-client workflow automation solution that […]

Abu Dhabi-based satellite operator YahLive has signed what it describes as a ‘partnership agreement’ with Etisalat, the UAE’s national telco which operates an important uplink Earth Station in the country. The deal means that YahLive can now directly uplink Dubai or Abu Dhabi-based channels directly to its new all-HDTV satellite. Following the signing ceremony with […]

A catastrophic rocket failure just before Christmas – although unrelated – and a technical hitch has forced Russia’s Krunichev State Research & Production Centre to postpone severely the planned December 27  launch of SES-4 by ILS. Krunichev and Russia’s Roskosmos have not elaborated on the reasons for the delay, but local sources suggest that defects […]

EMC has announced that ITV has made a purchase of EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to provide a storage platform. The deal will enable the television network to transition to a pan-itv HD file based infrastructure in order to store and manage all content digitally and make it available through existing broadcast channels and the online […]

Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow automation systems, today announced that it has created a new HD instant replay system for NASCAR race control officials. Developed for the start of the 2012 racing season, Telestream’s new Replay multichannel video player combines with its Pipeline HD video capture system to provide instant capture and display […]

NEP Broadcasting, an international provider of mobile tele-production services, has outfitted its latest launches with a full complement of Cobalt Digital gear to accomplish distribution, conversion and processing in and out of the trucks.  The equipment was installed in a manner to accommodate future expansion. “We are delighted to work with NEP again,” stated Chris […]

T-VIPS, a global expert in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, has announced that its TNS541 Seamless TS Monitoring Switch has been chosen by Rai Way, the operator of Italy’s DTT network. The project is a continuation of the existing cooperation between T-VIPS and Rai Way which began in 2009 when Rai Way deployed T-VIPS’ […]