Talia has announced the start of a strategic partnership with Yahsat, the UAE-based satellite operator. Under the agreement, Talia is committed to capacity on Yahsat’s upcoming Ka-band Al Yah 3 satellite, located at 20°W to be launched in Q1 2017, alongside existing services on Y1B satellite. This unique arrangement will provide Talia’s customers in the […]
WWE and Sky Deutschland have announced a new multi-year agreement to distribute WWE’s pay-per-view events starting this Monday with Survivor Series and televise WWE’s flagship programmes Raw and SmackDown live on Sky Sports beginning April 2017. “We are very happy about WWE coming back to Sky Deutschland,” said Dr. Malte Probst, Senior Vice President Programming […]
CSI Sports, a provider of televised fight content, has signed a new distribution agreement for its Fight Sports network with Dazn the on demand sports streaming service in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. “We are excited to be expanding Fight Sports’ reach with DAZN’s pioneering digital service alongside some of the world’s most prestigious sports […]
Forbidden Technologies, developer of cloud video platform Forscene, has announced a new partnership with software engineering and media services company, Intec Global Solutions. The Argentina-based company is the first Forscene service provider in the Latin America TV market. Intec Global Solutions offers development and integration of video platforms as well as consultancy and media services […]
Telestream, a provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced that Visual Data Media Services, one of the largest media processing and distribution service companies in the world, is relying on intelligent workflow management provided by Telestream Vantage media processing platform to transform its business model. Using Vantage, Visual Data has created an […]
L2Tek, a manufacturers’ representative and distributor of components and sub-assemblies for professional video and high-speed communications systems, announces a new family of video ICs from Explore Microelectronics, a fabless semiconductor company based in Taiwan. Aimed at companies designing and manufacturing digital and analogue AV broadcast and switching equipment or high-end home-theatre applications, the latest series […]
Olympusat, one of the largest independent media companies specializing in the ownership, distribution, production and technical services of Spanish- and English-language networks, announced the formation of an advisory board, composed of accomplished business leaders and influencers, including former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. “We are delighted to bring together such talented executives to help us […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content discovery technology, has released the 15th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, connected devices, and content discovery (now branded TiVo’s Q3 2016 Video Trends Report). Based on a survey of over 3,100 consumers, the Q3 2016 […]
According to Mark Lichtenhein, Chairman, Sports Rights Owners Coalition, piracy has no natural frontiers, with increased piracy the potential outcome of EC attempts to introduce cross-country licensing under Digital Single Market proposals. Speaking at the European Content Protection Summit in London, Lichtenhein noted that the June referendum vote for the UK to leave the EU, […]
Content producers usually fund their new TV shows and formats either by ‘deficit funding’ whereby a US network or its studio finances ~65 per cent of a programme, leaving 35 per cent of the cash for the producer to source, but also most international and secondary rights. Others might use what is often referred to as […]