Advanced Television

India worries over IRSO plan

India’s State Research Organisation (ISRO) is responsible for the design and build on the country’s satellite and rocket-building and to “harness space technology for national development”. It has not had aa good time just lately, beset by scandals and late-delivery of satellites which are needed to support India’s broadcasters and suppliers of bandwidth. India’s government […]

May 17, 2017By Chris Forrester

Ovum: nbn leads regional broadband investment

nbn’s Fixed Wireless network has passed a key milestone with the service now available to 500,000 premises in regional and rural Australia. The milestone coincides with new research from UK analyst firm Ovum which reveals that nbn is investing twice as much on regional broadband than our nearest international rival. The nbn Fixed Wireless service […]

May 17, 2017

GroupM content investment fund

Group M, the media investment group, has announced the launch of Motion Content Group, a new global content investment and rights management company, to meet the ever-growing market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace. Motion will invest and partner with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors […]

May 17, 2017

e.tv adds four for DStv

South Africa’s e.tv commercial broadcaster has added four additional channels onto the country’s DStv pay-TV bundle of channels. The channels have already been transmitting on the nation’s struggling Platco Digital’s OpenView free-to-watch terrestrial service as well as on rival Star Times Media and On Digital Media pay-TV bouquets. Now eMovies+ (DStv 138) and eMovies Extra […]

May 17, 2017By Chris Forrester

RDK adoption expands

Global adoption of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) software solutions that provide a common platform for powering customer-premises equipment (CPE) for TV and Internet service providers is up 67 per cent since the same time last year, now reaching 25 service providers, according to Steve Heeb, President and General Manager of RDK Management, a joint […]

May 17, 2017Colin Mann @ Connected TV World Summit

Viu OTT launches in Thailand

Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service by PCCW Media, has launched in Thailand, bringing the service now to 15 markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Middle East namely Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Premium Asian content with Thai subtitles, comprising the latest dramas and […]

May 17, 2017

Insight TV in Iceland

Insight TV has announced a major distribution deal with Siminn, one of Iceland’s leading telecoms companies based in Reykjavik. Siminn has launched Insight TV’s successful 4K linear channel on its UHD IPTV service Síminn Sjónvarp, providing Icelandic subscribers with hundreds of hours of unique high-end content. Iceland has the largest IPTV penetration rate in Europe […]

May 17, 2017

Discovery concludes Olympics FTA deal with Armenia

Discovery Communications’ has concluded its twentieth free-to-air broadcast partnership.  The new partnerships with Armenian Public TV and Radio Televizioni i Kosovës (RTK) along with existing agreements with national broadcasters across Europe are part of Discovery’s broad strategy to share the Games with more people, on more screens, than ever before. The new agreements cover free-to-air […]

May 17, 2017

All Belgian football on Proximus TV

Begian telco Proximus has reached an agreement with the Pro League for the broadcasting rights to the Jupiler Pro League (D1A) for the next three seasons. This new agreement means that Proximus TV customers will be to watch all of Belgian professional football (D1A and D1B) until 2020. Additionally, Proximus has announced that it has […]

May 17, 2017

Vision247 for Hadif Arabic service

Broadcast specialist Vision247 today announces that its XtremePlatform has been chosen and deployed to power CMT Technologies client Al Majd’s new OTT television service Hadif for global Arabic communities. Vision247 partnered with CMT Technologies, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) leading solutions provider for IPTV/ OTT services, to deploy the new service. CMT and Al Majd […]

May 17, 2017