Advanced Television

Press Releases

Gearhouse Broadcast upgrades UEFA HQ facilities

Gearhouse Broadcast has announced the completion of an installation for sports federation UEFA at the organisation’s HQ in Nyon, Switzerland. Gearhouse Broadcast was commissioned to upgrade UEFA’s Match Center and Master Control Room in preparation for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League tournaments for the 2012/2013 season. The new installation consisted of installing […]

November 21, 2012

RiksTV
 uses
 
Ekioh
 engines
 to
 launch
 OTT
 services
 in
 
Norway


Ekioh,
 providers
 of
 the

 widely
 deployed
 TV
 compliant
 Scalable
 Vector
 Graphics
 engine,
 has
 announced
 that
 
RiksTV
 have
 launched
 a
 range
 of
 new
 services
 in
 Norway
 using
 Ekioh’s
 SVG
 &
 HTML
 engines.
 The
 Ekioh
 engines
 are
 at
 the
 heart
 of
 two
 new
 digital
 hybrid
 set top
 boxes
 manufactured
 by
 Strong
 which
 are
 being
 sold
 to
 Norwegian
 […]

November 20, 2012

Levira to playout Cartoon Network Sweden and TNT Denmark HD for Turner Broadcasting

Levira, one of the largest independent providers of TV playout services in the Northern Europe, was selected by Turner Broadcasting to provide the playout service of Cartoon Network’s localised version for Sweden and TNT HD for Denmark. “We have been working together with Turner for more than five years and are delighted to continue having […]

November 19, 2012

ESPN teams with William Hill for ESPN Goals

As the Barclays Premier League season gathers momentum, ESPN has reached an integrated sponsorship agreement with William Hill for its enhanced – free – ESPN Goals mobile application in the UK. Now in its third season and featuring recently-introduced enhancements, ESPN Goals brings UK football fans action and goals from every single Barclays Premier League […]

November 15, 2012

RRsat announces acquisition of SM2 Sports & Media Solutions

RRSAT ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF SM2 SPORTS & MEDIA SOLUTIONS RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, has announced that its U.S. subsidiary, RRsat America Global Communications Network Inc. (RRsat America) has acquired the assets and operations of SM2 Sports & Media […]

November 14, 2012

Isilon founder Sujal Patel joins Elemental Board of Directors

Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced the appointment of Sujal Patel to its board of directors. Patel is the founder of Isilon Systems, a leader in scale-out storage and a division of EMC, where he variously served as president, CEO and chief technology officer since its inception […]

November 14, 2012

Marquis and Quantel announce strategic partnership

Marquis Broadcast, specialist in content workflows and media integration software, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Quantel, making it easier for Quantel customers to fully integrate workflows with third party editing, server and archive platforms. Quantel’s recently launched sQ Fileflow application exposes a RESTful API, allowing it to be controlled by Marquis Broadcast’s […]

November 13, 2012

TalkTalk speaks out about ATEME video quality

The newly launched UK TalkTalk TV service delivering live multicast and on demand content via the recently released YouView connected TV set top box is the first major TV service to exploit the latest high performance video compression technology from ATEME. TalkTalk selected ATEME’s TITAN platform for the YouView based service after being highly impressed […]

November 12, 2012

ScheduALL turns smartphones into interactive time cards

ScheduALL, a global provider of Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software to the media and broadcast industries, today announced a new capability to its mobility platform. Hitch simplifies how employees and freelancers working on-location report and reconcile their time. The new Actualising Time feature makes tracking hours worked, breaks and downtime easier and less time-consuming for employees […]

November 9, 2012

Gearhouse Broadcast serves up Barclays ATP World Tour Tennis with Hitachi Cameras

“In the short time since we took delivery, the Hitachi broadcast cameras have proved themselves to be reliable, versatile and sophisticated, so we are looking forward to what our team can achieve with them at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals,” said Kevin Moorhouse, Gearhouse Broadcast’s Chief Operating Officer at the start of the ATP […]

November 8, 2012