CSG and Bell, Canada’s largest telco providing advanced wireless, Internet, TV and business services, have announced a seven-year extension to their long-standing partnership. CSG will continue to support residential customer service and billing for Bell’s Fibe and Alt TV services. “Bell is a leader in the rapidly evolving communications market,” said Darla Thompson, vice president, […]
To mark the return of high street shopping, Channel 4 is launching a new ad campaign in partnership with a selection of major brands, and is now calling for small, independent high street retailers from across the UK to feature in an exclusive prime time TV ad break ‘The Great High Street Comeback’ – free […]
SDI Media, the localisation provider, has moved to a new facility in Helsinki, increasing capacity and square footage by 50 per cent, to better serve the Finnish market with subtitling and dubbing services. The increased footprint will enable the team in Finland to satisfy increasing demand for localisation as a result of new OTT platforms. […]
Spain’s largest pay TV operator Movistar has launched Picture in Picture (PIP) functionality to allow UHD STB-equipped fibre optic subscribers to watch two channels at the same time on the same screen. The PIP functionality enables users to watch one channel on full screen and a second channel on a small window in the upper […]
Arti, developer of a cloud-based augmented reality (AR) platform for broadcasters, has announced a strategic partnership with StormGeo (Bergen, Norway), creating the first SaaS platform for AR weather reporting. “Now, using the Arti AR platform, StormGeo Studio customers will be able to seamlessly integrate StormGeo’s objects like weather maps, 3D graphics, and data streams into […]
The BBC is to make 450 staff working on its regional programmes in England redundant as part of cost-cutting measures to save £25 million (€28m). The announcement comes despite the BBC repeatedly emphasising its desire to move more jobs outside London. The BBC’s local radio stations and television bulletins will be hit particularly hard, with […]
Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company, and data connectivity platform LiveRamp have partnered in the UK to provide hundreds of new audience segments for online campaign activation, built on the unique in-depth online and offline consumer behaviour from Kantar’s syndicated datasets, including TGI (in-depth consumer behaviour), Worldpanel (purchase) and ComTech (consumer technology). With figures […]
Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyse videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Now, the service can automate four common media analysis tasks – detection of black frames, end credits, shot changes, and colour bars using fully managed, […]
Both Intelsat and FCC filed their C-band accelerated spectrum transition plans with the FCC on June 19th. The schemes outline how their clients will be moved in order to free up spectrum for the FCC’s 5G adoption. The plans show how some 3,500 cable head-ends and 13,500 Earth stations will have 60,000 blocking filters changed […]
London Live, one of the local television stations under the Ofcom local-DTPS licence, has moved its entire broadcast operation to ABS Broadcast despite Covid-19 challenges The project teams on both sides were faced with unprecedented challenges caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, which presented a new dimension to the migration process. London Live is distributed on […]