Independent media advisory group Compact Media has launched a new division – Compact Tech – which provides a range of products and solutions to help film and TV companies manage their business and their assets with greater efficiency. Products and services range from Digital Asset Management (DAM), Marketing Asset Management (MAM), Client Portal Creation, Cyber […]
Eurosport is to bring tennis fans its best ever coverage of the US Open with more than 200 hours exclusively live as history maker Andy Murray, fresh of his second Olympic gold medal, targets back-to-back Grand Slams. All the action from August 29th will be shown live and exclusively on Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and […]
Alticast has become a member of the “Certified Widevine Implementation Partner Program,” a designation that is intended to expand content security options for pay-TV operators worldwide. As a modular DRM partner, Alticast’s AltiProtect Multi-DRM product can support Widevine DRM as one of several security solutions within a single infrastructure. AltiProtect enables a single point of […]
BabyTV, the award-winning baby and toddler channel from Fox Networks Group, delivered its best month yet in June, reaching #1 position among the Entertainment Genre and #1 among All People (excluding terrestrial) on top Indonesian platform PT MNC Sky Vision Tbk (MSKY) with their brand Indovision. Since it launched over a decade ago, BabyTV has […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched an app for the smartwatch GEAR S2 with all information and updates on the Olympic Games. The app can be downloaded from the Galaxy Apps store and marks RTVE’s first involvement in smart wearables devices. At the same time, RTVE has enriched its added-value service for the Olympic Games […]
TV presenter Gabby Logan has been signed up to front a new midweek Premier League show on BBC2, starting August 25th. Simply entitled The Premier League Show, the magazine-style show will feature in-depth interviews with football stars and also a weekly slot fronted by ex-England international and MOTD presenter Gary Lineker. The first episode will […]
Viasat1 has been granted a sub-licence to exclusively air the upcoming 2016/17 season of the English Premier League in Ghana on free-TV, making the channel the only broadcaster with such rights. Viasat1 will air live matches every Saturday afternoon for the duration of the season. In addition, Viasat1 will telecast a highlights show on Mondays; […]
ESPN Player has launched a new channel, ESPN Select, which will join its NCAA College sport flagship channel to provide subscribers with a wide range of sports content live and on-demand. Throughout August, ESPN Select will air content from many of the fastest growing sporting events in the world, such as the Little League World […]
The BBC now reaches 111 million people across all media platforms in Africa via the BBC World Service, the BBC World News TV channel and bbc.com as well as the international development charity BBC Media Action. The BBC provides content in Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Somali and Swahili across the continent and to diaspora […]
Channel 4’s former head of specialist factual David Glover and Dragonfly’s joint MD Mark Raphael have established a new independent production company 72 Films, which is being backed by the BBC’s commercial and international arm, BBC Worldwide. BBC Worldwide has taken a 15 per cent shareholding in the indie and in return will receive global […]