Intelsat has announced that it has a problem with its latest satellite. Intelsat-19, only launched on May 31st, has – as yet – failed to deploy one its all-important pair of solar panels. Intelsat’s engineers reported the glitch late on June 1st. The word used by Intelsat is that there had been a “delay” in […]
Broadcast International, a leading provider of video-powered broadcast solutions, and Beenius, the most progressive interactive TV middleware provider, have partnered to offer a suite of solutions that include the highest quality video processing with BI’s CodecSys transcoder platform, and Beenius’ open, flexible and feature-rich Interactive TV service delivery platform, Beesmart. the solution is being demonstrated […]
Advanced digital video services global provider Avail-TVN has secured $100 million of new investment funding from global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group enabling it to acquire UK-based On Demand Group, a provider of video on demand services to some of the biggest television brands outside of the United States. Avail-TVN paid $27 million on […]
In its final Delivering Quality report the BBC Trust has confirmed major cuts to Red Button services. It will cut the number of channels available on satellite and cable from nine to one, in line with DTT. The multscreen news service has already been cut. On IPTV and connected TV services the Trust merely says […]
3D Storm, distributor of NewTek products for Europe, Middle-East, Russia, Turkey and Pakistan, is glad to partner with Lanlink, NewTek specialist dealer in Sweden, to broadcast live this year’s Circom Regional Conference. The Circom Regional Conference will take place in Malmö University from May 16th to 19th and gather Media producers from all over Europe […]
The Qatari Television Support and Development Committee (TVSDC) has selected Grass Valley for a major modernisation project for Qatar TV. Grass Valley will be providing a complete master control room solution for the new Broadcast Centre in Doha. The design for Qatar TV’s new Broadcast Centre focuses on adaptive and flexible workflows, while being future-proofed […]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital […]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, has announced that it is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by […]
Masstech, ta provider of streamlined media asset management (MAM) solutions, will implement its TOPAZ version 7.5 streamlined MAM and digital archiving at each of City TV’s two facilities located at Calle 26 and Av Jimenez in Bogota, Colombia to digitise, manage and preserve all its content. City TV has two channels that broadcast 7×24. One […]
Luxembourg-based SES reported that it was continuing on its growth track in reporting its first quarter-year results early on May 11. Its y-o-y revenues grew 5.1 per cent (to €450 million), generating EBITDA of €337.3 million (up 4.9 per cent) and a margin of 74.9 per cent. Its contract backlog rose some €260 million from […]