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Delpy, Dujardin to head Eutelsat business units

Satellite operator Eutelsat has appointed Laurence Delpy as General Manager of the Video Business Unit and Cyril Dujardin as General Manager of the Connectivity Business Unit. These two appointments are at the core of Eutelsat’s telecom pivot, which will be further strengthened by the combination of Eutelsat and OneWeb announced in July 2022. The creation […]

September 5, 2022By Colin Mann

XroadMedia partners with NAGRA

XroadMedia, a leading provider in personalisation and content discovery, has partnered with NAGRA – a Kudelski Group company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection – to integrate its cloud-based Ncanto content discovery solution into NAGRA’s OpenTV Video Platform. The integration is available via the NAGRA OpenTV Video Platform, which provides service providers […]

September 5, 2022

Amagi THUNDERSTORM delivers highest render rates in the industry

Amagi, the global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced the latest version of its flagship ad insertion product, Amagi THUNDERSTORM. The new version offers a wide range of benefits for modern-day broadcasters and media content owners, enabling them to achieve ad revenue growth at scale on OTT and Free […]

September 5, 2022

BT Sport teams with Red Bee to increase subtitled content

BT Sport has selected global media service provider Red Bee Media’s automated subtitling service, ARC (Automatic Real-time Captioning), to increase the amount of subtitled sports content that it provides viewers by around 200 extra hours per month. BT Sport’s use of ARC is the first time a major UK broadcaster has deployed the automated service. […]

September 5, 2022

Samba TV partners with Relo Metrics

Samba TV, a global provider of television technology and omniscreen advertising and analytics, has partnered with Relo Metrics, the sports sponsorship intelligence platform, to provide brands, sports teams, and agencies new insight into sponsorship effectiveness across linear television. Leveraging Samba TV’s proprietary ACR technology and smart TV viewership data, Relo Metrics customers will now be […]

September 2, 2022

Ideal Systems thinks green with Metalo E-Waste recycling

Ideal Systems has announced its Think Green initiative for Broadcast and AV projects with leading Singapore based E-Waste recycling company Metalo International. Metalo provide E-Waste removal logistics across APAC and are certified for secure E-Waste destruction with full documentation reports such as Certificates of Destruction which may be required for auditing by government bodies such […]

September 1, 2022

United Cloud selects NAGRA’s NexGuard Watermarking

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that United Cloud, the innovation center of the United Group, the multi-play telecoms and media provider in South East Europe, has selected NAGRA’s NexGuard Watermarking to expand its security solution, ensuring OTT content protection for all United Group’s […]

August 31, 2022

Boeing delivers 2 SES satellites

Aerospace company Boeing has delivered two satellites for connectivity service provider SES to their launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of the upcoming launch of the twin spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. “SES-20 and SES-21 are the first commercial satellites we’ve delivered since the start of the global pandemic,” […]

August 24, 2022

Harmonic, Nagra watermarking service for live sports

Harmonic and Nagra are teaming to improve content protection for live sports streaming with a new watermarking-as-a-service offering. Nagra NexGuard forensic watermarking is now integrated with Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud SaaS platform, offering content owners and service providers a streamlined solution for protecting premium content at scale during live sports events. “A significant rise in piracy […]

August 23, 2022

Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 goes rogue

Intelsat has informed the FCC that it has lost overall control of its Galaxy 15 satellite probably as a result of a geomagnetic storm. It is the second time that the satellite has suffered problems in orbit. The official notification to the FCC says: “Galaxy 15 is currently authorized to operate at the 133.0° West […]

August 22, 2022By Chris Forrester