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Netflix: Anatomy of a Scandal debuts at #1

Netflix viewers sought to unveil the truth as Anatomy of a Scandal made its way to #1 on the English TV List for the week beginning April 18th. With 75.56 million hours, the limited series – starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend – also appeared in the Top 10 in 89 countries. Bridgerton […]

April 27, 2022

MediaKind becomes AWS Partner

MediaKind has become an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner and completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). Completion of the AWS FTR lets MediaKind unlock funding benefits and become eligible for various programmes within the AWS Partner Network (APN). The AWS FTR enables AWS Partners to identify and reduce risks in their productions and solutions. […]

April 27, 2022

BT Sport to premiere Super Villans doc

BT Sport will premiere Super Villans, the latest documentary from the BT Sport Films series, on May 18th on BT Sport 1. The film, an exuberant journey through the late Seventies and early Eighties featuring music, animations and archive reminiscent of the era, is narrated by Mark Williams, the well-known Villa fan who grew up […]

April 27, 2022

Sky Sports, C4 sign broadcast deals with W Series

Sky Sports has announced a multi-year broadcast partnership with W Series, the international single-seater motor racing championship for women. W Series will include ten races across eight Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends in 2022, and Sky Sports will broadcast live coverage of every qualifying and race session. The three-year partnership – through to the end […]

April 26, 2022

Google Cloud unveils Media CDN

At the 2022 NAB Show Streaming Summit, Google has announced the general availability of Media CDN, which it describes as “a modern, extensible platform for delivering immersive experiences with unparalleled scale and intelligence”. Media CDN will enable media and entertainment customers to intelligently deliver streaming experiences to viewers around the globe. The same infrastructure that […]

April 26, 2022

Dizi launches on Comcast platforms in US

SPI/FilmBox has announced the launch of SPI’s drama hub Dizi across Comcast’s entertainment platforms, including Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TV. Customers can subscribe to Dizi directly on their Comcast device for $4.99 month to access the service’s curated selection of Turkish drama series.  Series offered within Dizi have English and Spanish localisation options […]

April 26, 2022

SRT Alliance surpasses 550 members

Haivision, global provider of real-time video streaming and networking solutions, has announced at the 2022 NAB Show that the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol is celebrating five years of industry adoption for ultra-low latency video transport and the SRT Alliance has garnered the support of over 550 solution and service providers. Haivision originally developed SRT […]

April 26, 2022

Synamedia taps AWS for next phase of VIVID portfolio

Synamedia, an independent video software provider, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to host its VIVID Software-Defined Workflows. As video service providers’ journey to the cloud continues to accelerate, flexible and portable cloud-based video workflows become an even more critical part of their transformation. The combination of Synamedia’s technologies and […]

April 26, 2022

Viaplay acquires NHL, KSW rights in UK

Viaplay will become home to the National Hockey League (NHL) and KSW mixed martial arts (MMA) in the UK. Up to 1,400 games from the US ice hockey league will be shown on Viaplay every year until 2027, alongside 12 live events from the European MMA promotion annually until 2025. Viaplay will launch in the […]

April 25, 2022

Disney, Lumen partner to improve streaming quality

To simplify and increase the efficiency of streaming video delivery, Disney Streaming and Lumen Technologies are leading an effort to produce standardised CDN configuration metadata and application programming interfaces (APIs) for the streaming video industry. The multi-year effort is made possible by both companies’ participation in the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), a consortium of 100+ […]

April 25, 2022