Tata Communications is providing Official F1 licensee/broadcaster Chello DMC live Formula 1 video feeds via its wholly-owned fibre network for the first time this season. The high quality video feeds, broadcast on Dutch sports channel, Sport1 will be used for the channel’s full 2014 race season coverage. The partnership builds on Tata Communications’ proven capability […]
Ericsson is launching its Next Generation Playout solution at NAB. With Next Generation Playout, Ericsson is leveraging its global scale and services leadership to offer broadcasters managed or hosted playout services that can be delivered from a number of locations worldwide. Next Generation Playout gives Ericsson broadcast services customers access to major data centres across […]
NAB 2014 sees the launch of a new player in the broadcast technology industry, created by the merger of two of the market’s most respected and dynamic firms – Grass Valley and Miranda. The new Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, is the latest addition to the Belden Inc. portfolio of best-in-class communications technology brands, and […]
O2 Media has formed a partnership with UK-based Grabyo to bring its real-time video platform to the US for the first time. Broadcasters and Production companies can use Grabyo’s cloud-based studio to distribute live TV clips to millions of viewers in real time, through multiple social media platforms and as a seamless experience on any […]
Digital TV is finally taking off in Latin America – from only 18.1 per cent penetration of TV households at end-2010 to just over the halfway mark by end-2014 and onto 94.5 per cent by 2020, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. To put it another way, 132 million digital TV households […]
Motive Television Services has begun the installation of its Content Express platform in South Africa in accordance with the contract signed in December 2013 with Siyaya Free To Air TV of Johannesburg, South Africa The project will begin with the installation and integration of Motive’s head-end software, enabling Siyaya services on FreeVision, the new DTH […]
New Delhi Television (NDTV), one of India’s most-watched TV news networks, has migrated its satellite uplink infrastructure from MPEG-2 to a complete MPEG-4 multiple-channel-per-carrier (MCPC) chain based on Thomson Video Networks’ advanced encoding, MPEG processing, and transport stream (TS) monitoring equipment. Driven by the ViBE EM4000 HD/SD encoder, NetProcessor 9030 MPEG processor, XMS network management […]
Brazil’s Empresa Paulista de Televisão (EPTV), part of the commercial network TV Globo, replaced their SD OB van with a brand new HD OB van equipped with a scalable Grass Valley live production solution for HD coverage of major sporting events including the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The purchase includes 12 LDX […]
Benie TV and Ouest TV, two recently launched African channels, have chosen Globecast to distribute their programming via satellite to new audiences in West Africa. Via the Globecast service, Benie TV and Ouest TV are now part of the Canalsat bouquet available on the SES-4 platform. Canalsat is a satellite pay-TV package including +150 channels, […]
Encompass Digital Media, a global specialist in mission-critical media capture, management and distribution services, has partnered with the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) to bring live coverage of the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP World Championship Tour (WCT). Encompass is utilising its unique combination of global assets including geographically diverse Teleports (satellite and fibre services), remote […]