Abu Dhabi’s Yahsat-3 satellite will be built by Orbital Sciences Corp, and launched by Arianespace. The news emerged at the Paris ‘World Satellite Business Week’ event, organised by Euroconsult. Launch date is scheduled for Q4 2016, and will be an all Ka-Band satellite covering an “extra 17 countries” mostly over Africa including Brazil and a […]
Comcast and Univision Communications, a media company serving Hispanic America, have reached a long-term agreement for Comcast to distribute Univision Deportes Network (UDN) to XFINITY TV customers who subscribe to its Digital Preferred or XFINITY Latino levels of service. UDN is expected to begin airing next month for XFINITY TV customers. UDN launched in April […]
Satellite operator MEASAT has confirmed that the MEASAT-3b craft will launch at 5:21am 12 September MYT (6:21pm 11 September GFT) from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “MEASAT-3b was initiated in June 2011. This spacecraft, Malaysia’s largest and most advanced to date, is the result of more than three years’ co-operation between MEASAT, Airbus […]
The TF1 and ITAS groups have entered into exclusive negotiations with a view to the acquisition by ITAS TIM, a subsidiary of ITAS group, of OneCast, a subsidiary of TF1 operating in the DTT multiplex broadcasting sector. An agreement could be signed in the coming weeks, once the negotiations have been finalised and the necessary […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced that Deutsche Glasfaser a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network provider, has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to provide enhanced revenue security for its linear TV, radio, VoD and multi-screen services. The DGTV service is scheduled […]
IBM has announced today that Aspera, an IBM company, together with EVS, a provider of broadcast and media production systems, and Elemental, the supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, deployed the first large-scale system for high-resolution live video streaming via the cloud to enable viewers to watch live HD media and sporting […]
Alcatel-Lucent is to introduce new features to its Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution to enable pay-TV operators to better manage their networks and set a new standard for the customer experience of IP video services. As operators cope with the ever-increasing amount of IP-based video traffic, the Velocix CDN offers a number of improvements […]
Amino, a specialist in IPTV, has announced that its new IPTV platform has been successfully integrated with the Nordija fokusOn, the only true widget-based IPTV and multiscreen middleware and service delivery platform. Recently launched in Europe – and already gaining market traction – Amino’s A150 set-top box offers a range of performance, content and user […]
TV 2, a publicly owned television station based in Odense in Denmark, has opted for high-end Rohde & Schwarz DVS equipment to streamline its workflows. The ingest and production server R&S VENICE as well as the storage solution R&S DVS-SAN will play a vital role in the optimized infrastructure at TV 2. These systems will […]
SBS has chosen SDNsquare’s WARP as its new state-of the art production platform. The award-winning WARP is the only truly scalable software solution available today that delivers predictable performance for storage systems. It is independent of the underlying server and storage hardware allowing cost-efficient, fully scalable and future proof production. WARP delivers outstanding interoperability with […]