Television viewers in Houston, the eighth-largest TV market in the US, can now experience the future of broadcast television as 10 local TV stations launch digital broadcast technology NEXTGEN TV, using the digital television standard ATSC 3.0. Now broadcasting in 35 markets, NEXTGEN TV is expected to reach 45 per cent of US television households […]
SES Government Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES, has announced its new Common Operational Picture (COP) platform, Hydra, built exclusively to serve the US Government and military. Managed and operated in-house, SES says Hydra is a modular web-based monitoring and control system that provides end-to-end situational awareness in a single unified operational […]
NASCAR and US sports streaming service, FloSports, have announced a multi-year partnership that will make FloRacing, FloSports’ dedicated motorsports platform, the home of NASCAR Roots properties including: the ARCA Menards Series, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NASCAR Pinty’s Series, and NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series. The partnership will also deliver investment in grassroots racing, including […]
London-based independent producer Nevision is further expanding its global reach, launching a new bi-coastal US operation Nevision Inc. This bolsters Nevision’s roster of companies following the launch of Nevis Productions in the Nordics last year. With offices in LA and New York, Nevision Inc will be headed by Sandy Wax as President and Vincent Gabriele […]
The latest results and rankings of the Network Readiness Index (NRI) have been released by the Portulans Institute, revealing how countries around the world are leveraging information technologies to emerge from the Covid pandemic and become ‘network ready’. The latest edition – the third compiled by the Portulans Institute since taking over the Index from […]
Dave Morgan, founder, president and chief executive officer, and Pete Sniderman, chief operating officer, of Litton Entertainment, will retire from their positions at year’s end. With 32 series and hundreds of hours of Emmy Award-winning programming annually on leading broadcast station groups including the ABC stations, and networks including CBS, NBC, Telemundo and The CW, […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory estimates the annual volume of the production of TV animation in Europe to be around 220 titles (TV movies or TV series seasons), 5,200 episodes and 830 hours. France and the UK are by far the main producers of animation TV content. European TV animation coproductions account for 36 per cent […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced the second edition of its quarterly industry report, which reveals that FAST is steadily making inroads into all regions around the world, powered by Connected TV (CTV). The report aggregates data from its proprietary platform, Amagi ANALYTICS on viewership and […]
SES says it has received validation from the FCC in regard to the satellite operator’s Phase I C-band clearing obligations. It means that SES will receive $1 billion (€0.89) in an incentive payment from the FCC during the next few months. There’s another almost certain $3 billion due to be paid by the end of […]
Adobe and Major League Baseball (MLB), the US professional sports league, have announced a major expansion of their partnership to reimagine fan engagement and continue to bring America’s favourite pastime to the next generation of fans – powered across Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Sign. The partnership will empower MLB to bring […]