Chellomedia and CBS Studios have confirmed a new agreement to create CBS-branded channels from Chello Zone’s existing bouquet of channels in 83 territories across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This new partnership expands on a successful UK venture for CBS-branded channels that the companies launched in November 2009. Similar to the UK venture, channels […]
WRN Broadcast is working with Television Jamaica (TVJ), Jamaica’s number one television station, throughout the duration of the Olympic Games. Hosted in WRN Broadcast’s Media Village in Vauxhall, London, TVJ is being provided studio facilities for live programme recording and the ad hoc transatlantic delivery of non-Olympic rights holder content from WRN Broadcast’s Media Village to […]
Eutelsat’s full year results were released late on July 30 showing some extremely solid numbers, including confirmation of an extra satellite order for the operator’s increasingly ‘hot’ orbital spot over the Middle East. But conspicuous by its absence was any detailed explanation on Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat and its TooWay ‘broadband by satellite’ service. Eutelsat says its […]
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES reported further revenue growth on July 27 (for the six months to June 30) citing successes in winning business from new markets as being partly responsible. Revenues were up 4.8 per cent over the same period last year (to €892 million) and generating an operating profit up 2.4 per cent to […]
Chello DMC, an international provider of advanced playout and content management solutions, has been selected to provide playout and distribution services for Chello Zone’s women-oriented drama and entertainment channel, Zone Romantica. From 1st August 2012 Chello DMC will distribute the channel in standard definition to 21 countries via Telstar 12 (T12) satellite. The channel will […]
This Friday (July 27th) SES will unveil its latest financial numbers, but ahead of those figures, it says that it is now leading its rivals in terms of HDTV deployment, and is carrying more than 1,300 high-def channels. They comprise more than 25 per cent of the 5200 channels carried by the SES fleet. As […]
Motive Television has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Siyaya Free to Air (Pty) Ltd of Johannesburg, South Africa (Siyaya) for the use of Motive’s Anytime Anywhere technology in a new pay television service for the South African market. Siyaya has recently submitted an application to South Africa’s licencing authority to be allocated […]
Traffic Sports International, a rights-holder for several high-profile Brazilian football clubs, has chosen GlobeCast to provide satellite contribution services for delivery of several high-profile Latin American football championships to fans in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Through the end of 2012, GlobeCast will support distribution of over 150 matches, representing hundreds of hours of programming, […]
The BBC has reportedly agreed to sell its iconic Television Centre production studios and facilities to developer Stanhope for £200 million. The core of the building is a doughnut shaped, Grade II listed (protected), concrete building. But the TV Centre sits in the edge of a hugely valuable 15 acre site. Stanhope is reportedly considering […]
VDS, a developer of broadcast automation software, content design and plug-in products, has announced that it has delivered Streamliner, to a worldwide media company for its TV Everywhere operations. Streamliner, based on the VDS Promotor platform and introduced at NAB 2012, solves one of the biggest challenges for real-time streaming applications: Automating and synchronizing the […]