OneWeb, the global satellite communications company, has announced the launch of Innovation Challenge 2022: Connectivity and Beyond, an invitation to create innovative applications, products, solutions, and technologies that will advance global technology by utilising the full potential of a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The challenge offers an open invitation to engineers, industrial partners, […]
Unifrance has chosen OKAST to launch its new screening solution for its various markets and festivals Created in 1949 as an association under the French law of 1901 and operating under the control of the public authorities, in particular the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée), Unifrance is the organisation in charge […]
Urban Myth Films and The Imaginarium confirm they have partnered on Wicker Man having acquired the rights from Studiocanal to produce a television series adaptation of cult horror film The Wicker Man. They are in early talks with potential broadcasters. The adaptation is a total reimagining of the 1973 folk horror film as an eight-part television […]
Daro Film Distribution (Monaco), Corbi (Spain) and Enlighten Content (US) have teamed up to launch MyTime Movie Network, a FAST channel for women. The channel offers global audiences thousands of hours of content— from thrillers, romantic films, cheerful holiday movies as well as sports documentaries, female-led series and top model reality programmes. Conceptualised during the […]
International production company Element Pictures (a Fremantle company) the producer behind hit series Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and Oscar-winning films The Favourite and Room, has expanded their creative team with the appointment of Christopher Aird as Creative Director. Aird was appointed to the role by Element Pictures’ Founders and Co-CEOs Ed Guiney and Andrew […]
ITV2 and ITVX have announced Maya Jama as the brand new host of Love Island. The award-winning dating show, produced by Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios, will return for its 9th season in early 2023. Record-breaking viewing figures saw Love Island become the most-watched series ever on ITV Hub, with more than 269 million […]
Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, has today launched a new B2B TV campaign promoting its targeted TV platform, AdSmart. AdSmart is the market-leading addressable TV capability. It has run over 30,000 campaigns, achieving a 70% return rate of advertisers. With access to thousands of locations and household attributes, AdSmart allows businesses to tailor […]
The Swedish end-to-end OTT platform provider Magine Pro has stepped into the LatAm market by entering an agreement with Colombian OTT service America Play Go, who will serve content and productions for the Ibero-American market, serving Video-On-Demand content to the Ibero-American market and with linear channels to follow shortly. The new service is currently scheduled […]
Taiwan’s premier IC design house, Airoha Technology, a subsidiary of IC giant MediaTek, has announced that it has started to deliver to its customers a Broadband System-on-Chip (SOC) solution powered by RDK-B, an open-source platform that standardise key functions of customer premise equipment (CPE). As an active member in the RDK community, Airoha has helped […]
Netcracker Technology has announced that yes, an affiliate of Israeli telecommunications provider Bezeq Group, has extended its Professional Services contract with Netcracker to expand its satellite TV and OTT services and enable new business models. Netcracker Revenue Management will continue to support yes with an unparalleled charging flexibility and advanced convergence. Netcracker Professional Services, powered by Agile […]