UK broadcast playout company, Playout247, has announced the completion of two flagship connected TV studios. These provide state of the art equipment and live playout facilities to satellite and Internet television – from one single managed service. Tanya Vidmar, sales director at Playout247, commented, “These facilities provide everything needed to future proof a TV channel […]

News Corp has agreed to acquire Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group for $673 million. Shine is a UK-based production company that owns Reveille in the US “In a rapidly consolidating global TV industry, this alliance uniquely provides the conditions in which Shine Group can continue to lead and prosper,” Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman and CEO of Shine, […]

CTIA – The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have submitted a white paper to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) demonstrating that the auction of 120 MHz of under-utilised broadcast television spectrum will produce more than $33 billion in net proceeds for the US Treasury. In addition to providing the US government with […]

Elettronica Industriale, the network operator of Italy’s Mediaset Group, and satellite operator Eutelsat Communications have agreed a 12-year contract for capacity at the HOT BIRD video neighbourhood. The new contract for one transponder further consolidates a 20-year relationship between the two companies, increasing Mediaset’s HOT BIRD resources to five transponders. It will support Italy’s nationwide […]

Wipro Technologies has confirmed the launch of Wipro Comet, a digital content monetisation solution, which will enable media and telco service providers to roll out new content services, cost effectively and drive increased revenue streams by targeting offers to the specific wants of individual consumers. Wipro says the solution will be an enabler for publishers, […]

Strategy & Technology (S&T) is helping to deliver on demand video content over broadband to Freeview HD and Freesat set-top boxes and IDTVs as part of the new MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC). MHEG-IC is part of D-Book 6.2.1 the specification for Freeview HD and published by the UK’s Digital TV Group (DTG). It is anticipated […]

Canoe Ventures, a joint venture founded by the America’s leading cable operators, and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has announced the initial participants in their “CEE MEE” project. The ANA members who joined the project are Fidelity Investments, GlaxoSmithKline, Honda, Kimberly Clark and State Farm. The CEE MEE study initiative is designed to capture […]

RRsat Global Communications Network, provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, has announced that it has begun working with Ananey Communications to provide playout and distribution services for the localized MTV Israel channel. This service is in addition to the already existing playout and distribution services […]

Farncombe Consulting Group has launched a security validation programme designed to facilitate new conditional access (CA) and DRM products reaching the market. At the same time the process makes it easier for an operator or content provider to select or confirm the use of a new system. The two-step programme involves first filling in a […]

Trade distributor to the AV and broadcast industry, Bright Space Technologies, has been selected by the Maltese Audio Visual company, Studio 7, to supply a three camera Telemetrics Robotics system for a daily Lottery transmission. “When Studio 7, the premier solutions provider for the Maltese regions, was commissioned by a client to provide a secure […]