OTT streaming TV platform 1 Mainstream has announced it was named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors in Media, 2014,’ authored by Allen Weiner, Mike McGuire and Andrew Frank. According to Gartner, regarding the companies they have selected this year, “all deal with issues of disruption in the areas of creation, distribution and monetisation. […]

Landscape Channel starts broadcasting on HD basic at Init Cable in Lithuania this month through Landscape’s Baltic representative Wide Media. Init is the first cable system in the Baltics to start Landscape Channel distribution using Landscape’s unique 1080p mini server. Landscape’s Chairman, Nick Austin says “We have known for a long time that people in […]

Encompass Digital Media, a global player in mission-critical media capture, management and distribution services, is working with LTN and its next generation managed IP network to provide a total  solution for affordable, reliable transmission services across the globe. Encompass recognises the quality and affordability of using IP over reliable, defined Internet-accessible hardened nodes. The companies […]

NAGRA, the Kudelski Group’s digital TV business and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its end-to-end multiscreen solution, NAGRA MediaLive, was selected by one of Mexico’s largest cable companies, Telecable, of the Hevi Group to enable its next generation TV services. NAGRA MediaLive features NAGRA’s best-of-breed technologies including NAGRA […]

The 15th Brazil TV Forum, to be held on June 4th – 5th in São Paulo, will have Ralph Rivera, director of Future Media at the BBC as its keynote speaker: Rivera is one of the world’s leading experts on digital platforms and technological innovation for TV. Ralph will showcase BBC’s innovations on several fronts […]

LiveU, a specialist in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has announced that hundreds of LiveU units have been deployed by India’s top broadcasters and online media to boost their live reporting of the Indian General Elections, said to be the world’s biggest elections. LiveU units have increased newsgathering capabilities for India’s top […]

Umbre, (Small Time Gangster), a new drama series produced by HBO Europe for Romania, will start production in early June. The plot follows a Bucharest taxi driver who doubles as a collector for a major local mobster.  Black humour and drama intertwine when Reiu accidentally kills someone and wants to escape the mob’s clutches, but […]

AMC Networks has promoted Elana Mandelup to vice president, Corporate Communications. Based in New York, Mandelup reports to Georgia Juvelis, senior vice president, Corporate Communications. Mandelup, who joined the company in 2011 as a director, oversees day-to-day business and trade media relations for SundanceTV in the US, in addition to all trade, business and consumer […]

Yahsat, the Middle East satellite service provider, took home the highly coveted SatCom Star Award for “Satellite Operator of the Year” on their first submission for the award. Yahsat had won the “Most Innovative Product/Service for Africa” for two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013. Since 2012, Yahsat has provided connectivity to residents in unserved […]

HTTV will supply httvStream its Head End flagship product that will enable Sentech and South African broadcasters to deploy HbbTV services on Sentech’s Direct To Home – Satellite (DTH – S) Platform. The HTTV offer is complemented with the OnScreen Publisher authoring tool from OnScreen that will help Sentech design and develop HbbTV services. httvStream […]