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NHL, AWS debut advanced real-time stats

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon company, and the National Hockey League (NHL) will debut two new advanced analytics during the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. These new stats powered by AWS will appear as on-screen graphics and data visualisations during NHL games and aim ti give fans a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how […]

May 14, 2021

Eutelsat Q3: Negative growth dominates

Eutelsat’s Q3 results showed negative growth in almost all its key divisions, but the company told analysts that its prospects were looking up. Those losses, in hard cash, were miserable. For example, its worsening Broadcast/Video segment (62 per cent of revenues) fell by 8.5 per cent, while Data & Professional Video (13 per cent of […]

May 12, 2021By Chris Forrester

Quicklink joins the SRT Alliance

Quicklink, a global provider of software and hardware solutions for audio and video contribution, has joined SRT Alliance, the open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming. The SRT open-source video transport protocol has initially been adopted in Quicklink’s STS410, an all-in-one hybrid switcher. The SRT Alliance, founded by Haivision in April […]

May 10, 2021

SES Q1: €100m share buy-back

SES used its Q1 results statement to announce a €100 million share buy-back programme, declaring that it had made a strong start to this financial year. Its currently all-important Video division is moving steadily forward. SES has seen Video revenues grow from a minus 8 per cent overall y-o-y fall to a minus 4.6 per […]

May 6, 2021By Chris Forrester

Intelsat Q1: Media decline impacts numbers

Intelsat’s Q1 results were released on May 5th and showed some significant improvements y-o-y. For example, total revenues for the quarter-year were $502.7 million ($458.8m in 2020) up by 9.6 per cent y-o-y, and while the company is still working its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction its net loss position also improved to $174.9 […]

May 6, 2021By Chris Forrester

Grass Valley extends Video Progetti deal

Grass Valley has extended its longstanding relationship with Italian broadcast distributor and systems integrator Video Progetti, strengthening its sales and support operations in the Italian market. The Grass Valley Italian support teams are now co-located at Video Progetti’s Rome headquarters, allowing greater cooperation between the two companies. “Our ethos is about keeping our sales, service […]

April 29, 2021

Comscore: “Measurement needs to move beyond panel methods”

With more than $70 billion of annual television and video spend at stake, the video advertising industry is at an inflection point as market providers have faced serious questions about the accuracy of their measurement and their foundational methodological approach. Amid these ongoing concerns about TV/Video measurement reliability and accuracy, Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting, […]

April 28, 2021

Comscore renews and expands ViacomCBS deal

Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, has announced an expanded renewal agreement to provide ViacomCBS with Comscore’s National TV measurement currency for its portfolio of news, entertainment and sports networks. Comscore’s partnership with ViacomCBS linear television measurement began in 2014 and quickly expanded to develop advanced audiences to support Viacom’s […]

April 27, 2021

Success for OneWeb launch

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket successfully placed 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit, and OneWeb says that contact has been made with each satellite and that they are healthy. The launch took place from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 25th at 23.14 BST. It took almost four hours to dispense the satellites in nine batches. The success […]

April 26, 2021By Chris Forrester

Latest ATV streaming interviews

  Atv talks to Martin Bergenwall of Verimatrix about Streamkeeper and the all-new hyper-flexible SaaS Secure Delivery Platform Founder Roy Taylor talks to A-tv about Ryff, the  AI driven product placement solution and market. ATV talks to Christian Lefebvre of Technicolor about the changing landscape of OTT and the abiding importance of the STB and […]

April 23, 2021