The Associated Press will work with social media management platform SAM to launch the AP Social Newswire, a feed of user-generated content (UGC) being vetted and verified by AP’s social media experts and editors across the globe. The AP Social Newswire will allow customers to discover and inspect user-generated content as it comes into the […]
SpaceX launched what is claimed as its heaviest-ever satellite on May 15th when a Falcon 9 rocket lofted an Inmarsat craft into orbit. London-based Inmarsat-5 F4 (5th generation, flight 4) is one of the company’s Global Xpress constellation and is the fourth craft in this fleet. This launch took the satellite into a geostationary transfer […]
DMC, the European media gateway, has added Blaze Italy to its portfolio of A+E Networks channels. The HD factual entertainment channel is powered by DMC’s fully virtualised playout platform, which enables broadcasters and content providers to shrink time to market, reduce hardware requirements and maintain full control over their content. Launched exclusively with Sky in […]
TiVo has announced that Cable Onda, a television service provider in Panama and long-time TiVo partner, has agreed to expand its offerings and will soon offer its customers the latest TiVo Gateway DVR solution. With the TiVo Gateway DVR, customers in Panama will have access to TiVo’s multi-room solution that complements Cable Onda’s TV offerings […]
Global TV operator SPI International/FilmBox has renewed its distribution agreement with FilmOn TV, part of the FOTV/Hologram USA group of companies. FilmOn will continue to carry several international thematic channels from the SPI’s portfolio including: FightBox HD, DocuBox HD, FashionBox HD, Fast&FunBox HD, 360TuneBox. In addition, the bundle of channels now includes Gametoon. Gametoon is […]
Kaltura, the video technology provider, has been selected by KCP, the Korean content platform, to power the company’s new OTT service – Kocowa. The service will deliver the largest collection of premium K-Drama content from the top Korean broadcasters KBS, MBC, SBS and other content partners to users worldwide. The Kocowa platform is a full-featured […]
ATEME has announced that České Radiokomunikace, a provider of digital infrastructure and the largest Czech service provider, has deployed its compression and statistical multiplexing (statmux) solutions for the company’s DVB-T2 HEVC services. České Radiokomunikace’s new HEVC statmux headend uses ATEME’s TITAN full-software solution to deliver more than 15 channels in one DVB-T2 multiplex across the […]
To support increasing global online traffic and content delivery challenges worldwide, Limelight Networks, a global player in digital content delivery, has announced significant new performance and functionality advancements to the Limelight Orchestrate Platform. By optimising purpose-built software and services, the Orchestrate Platform offers breakthrough delivery performance, even over congested or changing network conditions – all […]
Concurrent, a global player in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual media assets, and Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation video processing platforms for broadcast and streaming high-quality video, today announced Appear TV has integrated its ABR streaming solution with Concurrent’s Aquari visual asset storage. Appear TV’s just-in-time packaging origin solution delivers all […]
Olympusat Holdings, one of the largest independent media companies specializing in the ownership, distribution, production and technical services of Spanish and English-language networks, has appointed Carlos Lopez as Vice President of Marketing and Communications – beginning in May 2017. Lopez has over 25 years of Marketing and Product Management experience over a wide spectrum of […]