The Qatari Television Support and Development Committee (TVSDC) has selected Grass Valley for a major modernisation project for Qatar TV. Grass Valley will be providing a complete master control room solution for the new Broadcast Centre in Doha. The design for Qatar TV’s new Broadcast Centre focuses on adaptive and flexible workflows, while being future-proofed for emerging technologies, such as [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, content localisation, disaster recovery [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, has announced that it is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, [...]
Masstech, ta provider of streamlined media asset management (MAM) solutions, will implement its TOPAZ version 7.5 streamlined MAM and digital archiving at each of City TV’s two facilities located at Calle 26 and Av Jimenez in Bogota, Colombia to digitise, manage and preserve all its content. City TV has two channels that broadcast 7×24. One of its channels, CityTV focuses [...]
Luxembourg-based SES reported that it was continuing on its growth track in reporting its first quarter-year results early on May 11. Its y-o-y revenues grew 5.1 per cent (to €450 million), generating EBITDA of €337.3 million (up 4.9 per cent) and a margin of 74.9 per cent. Its contract backlog rose some €260 million from €6.83 billion to €6.59 billion. [...]
Eutelsat’s quarterly and 9-month financials show that its revenue growth remains firmly upward, although there are signs that its important ‘multi-usage’ segment is slowing in growth terms. Overall revenues are up 4.6 per cent for the quarter-year (to March 31st) and a matching 4.6 per cent for the 9 months to the same date. Video-based clients helped drive revenues up [...]
Communications and information technology company Harris Corporation is to divest its Broadcast Communications business. Confirmation of the decision came as the company announced its third quarter results. William M Brown, president and chief executive officer, said the decision to divest Broadcast Communications resulted from a thorough review of the company’s business portfolio, which determined that the business was no longer [...]
Belgium-based Newtec is to upgrade the Middle East and North African programming and exchange service (MENOS) to HDTV in order to make this year’s London Olympic Games the ‘first’ HDTV major sports event to be carried by the MENOS infrastructure. The news, announced at NAB in Las Vegas, allows ASBU members to receive the live Olympic multilateral feeds and news [...]
Mindspeed Technologies, a supplier of semiconductor solutions for broadcast and network infrastructure applications, has extended its line of high-performance, asynchronous fully non-blocking crosspoint switches to include a 12.8 gigabits per second (Gbps), 160×160 device with two terabits per second (Tbps) switching capacity. The M20605 incorporates features that simplify system design, speed time to market, and ensure superior signal integrity for [...]
VDS, a developer of broadcast automation software, content design and plug-in products, has announced Streamliner, a new system for controlling streaming media in sync with linear broadcasts. VDS will present Streamliner for the first time at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in booth N3734. Powered by VDS Promotor, Streamliner solves one of the biggest challenges for real-time streaming applications: [...]
