Eutelsat unveiled its Q1 results (to September 30th) and warned of slower progress for the rest of its fiscal year. The results were issued after the market closed on October 30th. As the market opened on October 31st, its share price crashed 12.37 per cent to €18.34. The revenue news was generally bad, and given […]
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, and Gearhouse Broadcast partnered to deliver Australia’s first UHD live broadcast. All six hours of UHD content from the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 for supercars – the country’s annual, premier touring car event – were broadcast live without any advertising breaks. The 1,000-kilometre race was televised on Foxtel’s newly launched channel 444, with routing […]
SES saw its Video division revenues continue to be under pressure and fell back to -2.8 per cent, although its Networks segment grew impressively by 13.6 per cent in the nine months to September 30th. Its Q3 2018 underlying revenue of €317.5 million was 3.8 per cent lower (year-on-year) at constant FX. Video distribution revenues […]
Witbe, a specialist in Quality of Experience Monitoring, has unveiled its latest video algorithm: Witbe Video Quality Incident Detection, or VQ-ID. Witbe says its new video algorithm is capable of detecting every major video and audio incident. It is the result of ten years of experience in video quality algorithms that started with Witbe VQ-MOS […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has renewed its partnership with tennis rights owner ATP Media, the broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP World Tour, to bring HD coverage of tennis events to viewers around the globe. The new three-year deal extends Globecast’s relationship with ATP Media, with Globecast supplying ad hoc […]
Live sports and entertainment technical production partner NEP Group has acquired connectivity services provider SIS LIVE Limited, a subsidiary of UK-based Sports Information Services (SIS). The acquisition complements NEP’s Broadcast Services and Media Solutions businesses, strengthening the company’s support of live sports, broadcast and entertainment clients across the UK, Europe and worldwide. The addition is […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will transfer its business services to a new subsidiary, Eurovision Services SA, on January 1st 2019. The new subsidiary will be fully owned by the EBU and based in Geneva, Switzerland. “I very much welcome this strategic development for the EBU, for the new subsidiary, and especially for our Members […]
Gracenote, a Nielsen company, has announced the availability of Studio System Projects, a new enterprise-level collaboration and project management platform designed to help TV networks, Hollywood studios and other content creators streamline the development process and deliver more commercially and critically successful entertainment offerings. This new suite of Web-based tools allows internal teams to efficiently manage the creation of TV shows and movies from story ideation all the way through […]
Global sports and entertainment media group, beIN Corporation (beIN), has launched an international investment arbitration against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages totalling more than $1 billion (€0.87bn), claiming it has unlawfully been driven out of the Saudi market and subjected to what has been described as the most widespread piracy of sports broadcasting […]
Sky is partnering with Common Sense Media to introduce a detailed rating system that will help parents make informed choices about what their children watch on Sky. The new service will launch in the UK in 2019. Since its founding in 2003, Common Sense has built a library of independent age-based reviews for everything kids […]