Intelsat has confirmed that Intelsat 29e, the first of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites, is scheduled to launch on January 27th 2016, aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. “This is an exciting time for our company, with Intelsat leading the way with new […]
As media viewing habits continue to trend away from traditional television and towards streaming video on mobile and Internet-connected devices, brands and publishers are striving to stay ahead of the tectonic shifts in behaviors and business models. Eager to match this demand, Verizon Digital Media Services is helping content owners seize emerging distribution and monetisation […]
Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, IPTV and mobile industry, announces that, for the second year in a row, it has been ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. This prestigious and widely recognized competition puts the spotlight on the fastest-growing technology companies, […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and a leading innovator in premium video publishing, analytics and monetisation, hired Scott Braley as its new general manager of programmatic advertising. Braley was formerly the senior vice president of demand at OpenX, and prior to that, the head of US sales and global agencies for Facebook’s Atlas division, the social […]
ESPN has partnered with EA and FIFA 16 to produce an amusing new video series which uses the market-leading game to simulate the Premier League season. FIFA Fantasy League combines games highlights with mock commentary and fake studio analysis to take an alternative and comedic look at the beautiful game. Hosted on ESPN.co.uk and ESPNFC.co.uk, […]
Intelsat has announced that Brian Jakins has been named as the company’s Regional Vice President of Sales in Africa, effective immediately. Jakins will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa and report to Jean-Philippe Gillet, Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector, including services to enterprises […]
Xcrypt and TNTSAT Africa, in the person of its CEO, Ismaila Sidibe, inked their agreement in principle during IBC 2014. Less than one year later, after having had to build an entire DTH uplink from scratch, after training 3,000 installers to the art of not only setting-up dishes but also reselling their TV package, TNTSAT […]
ABS and Arab Satellite Communication Organisation (Arabsat) have signed an expansion capacity agreement on ABS-3A for a multi-transponder, multiyear deal for Ku-band payload. The additional capacity will be used for different customer networks within the Middle East and North Africa regions in particular Saudi Arabia.Under the agreement, Arabsat will use the new bandwidth on ABS-3A […]
Eurofins Digital Testing (formerly Digital TV Labs and Testronic Labs Belgium) is now the official lab for certifying pay-TV enabled automotive infotainment systems, which use the MOST network to transport CI+ protected content, using Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP). The MOST Cooperation recently released its latest MOST Stream Transmission Specification, which includes support for the […]
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Cloud-based encoding provider, PandaStream. The result of a comprehensive investigation of key suppliers in the cloud-based encoding market, the acquisition accelerates Telestream’s strategy for providing cloud services to complement its on-premise solutions. As a direct result of this acquisition, Telestream […]