ZOO Digital has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art facility in Dubai. Offering secure, local services in the Middle East, the facility extends ZOO’s reach to provide dubbing, subtitling and media services utilising its cloud-based platforms. The purpose-built facility, designed with CDSA and MPAA security requirements in mind, includes fully-equipped dubbing studios, transcriber and translator […]

ABS, a global satellite operator, held a seminar session on August 29th on the topic “Empowering Timor Leste with Satellite”.  The dialogue’s aim was to foster greater interest in bringing satellite-enabled services to communities across the country. The forum provided an opportunity for the exchange of views on satellite connectivity and how this could bring […]

Zenterio, a TV and multiscreen software client solutions provider, has announced that OTE Group, the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market, deployed in COSMOTE TV, its pay-TV services, an advanced STB called EUROBOX (KAON NS2000), using Zenterio OS. Featuring a highly flexible and scalable independent operating system architecture, Zenterio OS allows COSMOTE TV to […]

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia, home of Antena 3 and other popular entertainment channels, has complemented its existing Imagine Communications Versio integrated playout installation by deploying a Versio-based disaster recovery playout centre.  The new backup facility maintains tight synchronisation with the primary playout centre to ensure instant and seamless failover should it be necessary. Facing growing demand […]

Following the success of the first series of Channel 5’s primetime consumer series Shop Smart Save Money, it has been recommissioned for a second and third series (8 x 60 – 16 episodes in total). Series 2, produced by True North, is presented by Gaby Roslin and Fiona Phillips and will once again come from The Broadway Centre in Bradford where viewers will […]

President Donald Trump has called on Twitter for the firing of CNN’s president Jeff Zucker. Trump said CNN’s “hatred and extreme bias” towards him made the media organisation “unable to function”. “Little Jeff Z has done a terrible job, his ratings suck, & AT&T should fire him to save credibility!” he tweeted. Zucker is currently […]

In the first half of 2018, GfK recorded total sales of €45 billion for the global market for TVs). That is about one per cent more than in the same period last year, spurred by this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. Global sales of a total of 238 million devices are expected for 2018, […]

Telenor Norway has been named the world’s fastest mobile network, with consumers able to download with speeds of 72.05MBps. Research from testing agency Ookla found the top three operators for downloads were European. Telenor was followed by T-Mobile Netherlands, with speeds of 70.05MBps and Nova in Iceland, which hit an average of 67.83MBps. Ookla said […]