Eutelsat Group has announced that Al Jazeera Media Network has reaffirmed its commitment to Eutelsat for broadcast services across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. This new multi-year, multi-satellite agreement will assure broadcast continuity of Al Jazeera’s bouquet of SD and HD news and events channels at three of Eutelsat’s video neighbourhoods: 7/8°West, for […]

Mattel, the global toy and family entertainment company and owner of some of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world, and WildBrain, a specialist in kids’ and family entertainment, have announced the new animated special Polly Pocket: Adventures in Rio from Mattel Television Studios and WildBrain. The new 66-minute special features an original song […]

Euronews is latest broadcaster to bring FAST channels to the Intelsat Galaxy 19 (G-19) platform. The international news channel provides new content with a pan-European perspective to over 400 million households across 160 countries in 17 different languages. Euronews English and Euronews Spanish are now available to G-19 viewers in addition to the WeDo Big […]

Too Young, a specialist in music supervision and audio post-production, has launched Catalog. The new, curated sync platform streamlines music licensing and aims to unleash songs’ full artistic and monetisation potential in audiovisual media. Catalog is the result of a collaborative effort between Too Young and a 20-strong list of founding partners, made up of […]

Fransat, the Eutelsat Group subsidiary operating a DTH platform of DTT channels for the French market, has showcased at IBC a miniature set-top box designed to further simplify satellite DTT DTH reception. The Fransat TV Stick is a conditional access module (CAM) that uses the new CI Plus 2.0 standard to integrate the decrypting and […]

Roku and National Research Group (NRG) have released survey findings that shed light on the relationship between TV streaming and the cinema experience. The results are an in-depth study of the moviegoing habits of streaming viewers. Over the past decade, TV streaming has expanded dramatically – and streaming is now the default way that many […]

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has released new guidelines for the implementation of the AdChoices Icon and Ad Marker in Connected TV (CTV) environments. The new creative guidelines help advertisers and CTV companies use the ubiquitous AdChoices Icon to provide consumers with information and control around interest-based advertising on CTV devices. This new AdChoices supplement […]

TV producer Eric Tomosunas and media executive Michael Parnes, most recently VP of Insights and Strategy for Adult Swim, have partnered to launch FearPix, a free streaming destination for all things horror, thriller, and true crime. FearPix has also announced several distribution deals and partners, including Alliance Entertainment, The Asylum, Filmhub, FilmRise, Green Apple Entertainment, […]

Kineton, a provider of technology solutions, in collaboration with the Digital TV Group (DTG), has announced the integration of the DTG DVB-I Test Suite into the Kineton MediaCert platform. This integration is being officially unveiled at IBC. The DVB-I Test Suite enables manufacturers to validate the correct implementation of the DVB-I specification on connected TVs […]

UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has published the renewed broadcast licences for Channel 3 (ITV/STV) and Channel 5, securing public service broadcasting on these channels for a further ten years. Ofcom describes ITV, STV and Channel 5 as an important part of the PSB system, alongside the BBC, Channel 4 and S4C. “Each of the public […]