For the first time, Nielsen has introduced comparable reporting of local US television’s OTT streaming apps when delivered via connected TV devices, apps and/or websites and viewed on the TV. The new capability includes feeds that have unique, streamed content that is not available on the station’s over-the-air channels or direct-to-cable station feeds. By capturing […]

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media and content management, has announced it is vacating its Culver City location, which it has called home for more than 30 years, into a new facility in Westlake Village in metropolitan Los Angeles, CA. Westlake Village Studios is a 21,000-square-foot broadcast facility situated within the sprawling 12-acre Four […]

Veset, a wholly owned subsidiary of Play., now supports Dolby Audio for its cloud playout solution, Veset Nimbus. With this implementation, Veset Nimbus users can deliver live and on-demand channels with high quality surround sound to enhance the experience. Channels will have higher quality audio with enhanced clarity, detail, and depth. Background noise and distortion […]

Sky is consolidating control and visibility of its global content supply chain system on the Polaris operational management software platform from TMT Insights, the professional services and software development company. The broadcaster is migrating all functions related to movie and TV content across its UK, Germany, and Italy operations onto the platform, as part of […]

IMDb, the online source for information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, and Fabric, a specialist in metadata management for media and entertainment (M&E) catalogues, have announced a new solution that allows M&E companies to enrich their catalogues using entertainment data sets from IMDb. IMDb licenses information from its database – including movie and TV […]

DAZN Italia has opened a Network Operation Centre (NOC) in Cologno Monzese (Milan) to monitor network performance and streaming quality. Before the setting up of the Italian NOC, these tasks were carried out by DAZN’s Network Operation Centre Global, which is located in Leeds, UK. Before a football match, the NOC controls the allocation of […]

Sky has opened a Digital Hub at The BridgeLink Community Centre, close to its group headquarters in Isleworth. Located on the Ivybridge Estate, the community centre provides critical services to more than 3,000 residents, including afterschool homework clubs, youth clubs, holiday clubs for local children, coffee mornings, training and consultation programmes. Sky is enhancing these […]

Pay-TV provider M7 Group, owned by Canal+ Group, has concluded a multi-year capacity agreement with BBC Studios for the HD satellite distribution of BBC Earth in CEE (excluding Poland) and Turkey. Following the agreement, M7 Platform Services is providing BBC Studios with a comprehensive full-service satellite contribution solution via THOR 5 at 1 degree West, […]

Mexico’s StarGroup has expanded its capacity agreement with Eutelsat for its StarTV direct-to-home pay-TV service. Operating via Eutelsat since 2016, StarTV will continue to benefit from coverage of Mexico at 117° West. StarTV DTH service was launched in 2016, replacing the regional platform TVZac, which had been broadcast through microwave distribution. Partnering with Eutelsat, StarTV […]

PCTV, a subsidiary of Mexico’s leading cable operator Megacable Comunicaciones, has added to its capacity on Eutelsat 117 West A satellite through a multi-year agreement. The deal further strengthens a decade-long partnership between PCTV and Eutelsat, expanding PCTV’s already extensive video services from Mexico to countries across the entire Latin American region. PCTV operates a […]