Ofcom is to preparing to crack down on the poor standard of subtitling of it says is common on UK TV by introducing a six-monthly quality check that will name and shame broadcasters into improving their services. Gaffes include asking for a “moment’s violence” during The Queen Mother’s funeral. Viewers are able to switch on a subtitles option for most [...]
iCITY – the preferred bidder for the legacy uses of the Press and Broadcast Centres on London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – has signed its deal with the London Legacy Development Corporation for the long-term future of the Centres. This agreement takes total investment on the Press and Broadcast Centres to over £1 billion. This includes investment from: London 2012 [...]
Content delivery network specialist EdgeCast Networks and Nordic telco TeliaSonera have agreed a managed CDN accord that will bring new site acceleration and CDN solutions to TeliaSonera’s customer base while expanding the reach and capacity of the EdgeCast network. Under the agreement, both companies will make significant investments in high-performance network infrastructure, along with sales and marketing efforts, to address [...]
at800 has revealed the results of its recent trials in South-East and West London. It revealed that there were no confirmed Freeview problems as a result of the 4G at 800 MHz testing. The results reflect the fact that there is a very strong digital terrestrial television signal in London, and that this is transmitted at frequencies clearly separated from [...]
In-flight connectivity supplier Gogo, which wants to provide a global TV and Internet system to aircraft, has won FCC recognition and a blanket licence to take up to 1000 Ku-band satellite transponders for in-flight entertainment and Internet access. GoGo has leased capacity from SES for some trans-Atlantic and North American capacity, and Intelsat for Pacific Ocean and Atlantic routes. The [...]
Comux UK, the community not-for-profit business selected by Ofcom to build and operate the local TV broadcasting platform, will be located at Birmingham Science Park Aston’s Innovation Birmingham Campus. Comux will occupy three suites within the ground floor of the Faraday Wharf building. One suite will be dedicated to broadcast operations, one will house the servers required to power the [...]
As part of its continued penetration of the media and broadcast sector, Geo Networks has announced a 10 year contract with new media data centre, The DataRoom London (DataRoom). Geo is to provide dark fibre to south London-based DataRoom, linking it to Geo’s 3,000km network to facilitate connectivity to over 100 data centres and media hubs such as Chiswick Park, [...]
Red Bee Media, the media services company, has signed an exclusive multi-year deal with BT. The deal will see Red Bee Media provide playout, channel and media management services for BT’s new live sports offering, BT Sport. The channels, which will be available 24 hours a day in HD and SD, are slated to launch this summer and will be [...]
DirecTV is spending $22 million to build a new regional broadcast centre. It already has similar facilities in Brazil and Venezuela as well as its facilities in the US. Another $10 million is earmarked for new equipment. Jacopo Bracco, president of DirecTV’s Latino operations, led the US delegation which met Argentina’s president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner as well as the [...]
Fox and other broadcasters have filed with a New York appeals court to reconsider the California court decision to give a green light to Aereo, the controversial start-up that uses tiny antennas to retransmit their signals to connected devices for $8 a month. In the new court filing the broadcasters claim the decision “threatens to cause massive disruption to the [...]
