The prospects for immense 5G growth in the Middle East and North Africa has emerged from a study by the GSM Association and released at an event in Dubai on Oct 8th and saying that Middle East mobile operators will be 5G “early adopters”. Their study (The Mobile Economy: Middle East and North Africa 2017) […]
Nokia has confirmed that it is halting development plans of its OZO virtual reality camera and hardware, and consequently will axe up to 310 jobs from its Nokia Technologies unit. “The slower-than-expected development of the VR market means that Nokia Technologies plans to reduce investments and focus more on technology licensing opportunities,” the company said […]
ESL, the world’s largest eSports company, has partnered with Hulu to bring premium esports content to an SVoD service for the first time. Expanding on ESL’s original content offering, the deal includes four new eSports series — Player v. Player, Bootcamp, Defining Moments and ESL Replay – and will mark Hulu’s first foray into eSports. […]
Cricket Australia has secured a new broadcast and digital partner for India and the subcontinent. Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the exclusive media rights for all men’s international matches played in Australia, beginning with the Magellan Ashes Series in November. The term of the deal is six years and will cover multiple Indian […]
AsiaSat of Hong Kong says that its AsiaSat 9 satellite has arrived on station at 122 degrees East following its launch on September 29th by an ILS Proton M rocket from Kazakhstan. The satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral and carries 28 C-band transponders, 32 Ku-band and some Ka-band transponders. It was ordered December 2013. […]
Panasonic Avionics says it has now equipped almost 1800 commercial aircraft with its In Flight Entertainment (IFE), and has an order backlog of some 2200 aircraft still to be equipped. Panasonic has – up until now – struck deals with Intelsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat and Telesat for geostationary satellite-based delivery of its services. But that philosophy […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced the appointment of Juliet Walker as Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. In her new role, she will help diversify the company’s product and services portfolio, innovate into new territories and reinforce the Globecast brand within its various markets. She reports to Globecast CEO Philippe Bernard. “We’re […]
AdScribe, a subsidiary of Zenterio, has announced that Norwegian pay-TV operator RiksTV has deployed its audience measurement and analytics tool AdScribe Audience to measure live TV; time-shift TV; catch-up TV; and VoD content viewed on connected set-top boxes, Android apps and iOS devices. Running in the cloud, Audience collects data about what is being watched, […]
At NAB Show New York on October 18th, Crystal launches the Crystal Metadata Cloud, a patent-pending software technology to provide frame-accurate synchronisation of metadata with video and audio at any point in the distribution chain from the cable headend or DTH platform to the set-top box, computer, phone or tablet. Metadata has become critical to delivering video content and […]
Spanish regulatory body Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) is looking into the TV advertising agreement between Mediaset, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, among other channels, and Mediapro, owner of the football TV channel Gol TV, over a possible breach of free competition in the market. Both companies signed an agreement […]