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TeamTO, Sunwoo team for Mighty Mike

kids entertainment company TeamTO is delighted to announce its agreement with Sunwoo to distribute its global hit series, Mighty Mike (78 x 7) in South Korea, across all media (linear, SVOD, satellite and cable). Patricia de Wilde, Director of Marketing and New Business at TeamTO, commented: “We are delighted to be working with the leading […]

February 17, 2022

NBC Sports selects EVS’ LiveCeption Signature solution for Winter Games

NBC Sports has selected EVS’ LiveCeption Signature solution for its production of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from Beijing, China, February 2–20. The announcement was made by Darryl Jefferson, VP of Post Operations and Digital Workflow, NBC Sports & Olympics, and Quentin Grutman, Chief Customer Officer at EVS. NBCUniversal provides coverage of the 2022 Olympic […]

February 16, 2022

NBC Sports selects Harmonic for Winter Games

NBC Sports has selected Harmonic to provide its Edge media processing solution for its production of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from Beijing, China, February 2-20, 2022. The announcement was made today by Anil Abraham, Sr. Director Architecture & Engineering, NBCUniversal, and Shahar Bar, Senior Vice President, Video Products and Corporate Development, Harmonic. NBCUniversal provides […]

February 16, 2022

NBC Sports selects Chyron for Winter Games graphics

NBC Sports has selected Chyron to provide systems for live, on-air graphics with integrated data as well as systems to drive graphics displays to studio video walls for its production of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from Beijing, China, February 2-20. The announcement was made today by Darryl Jefferson, VP of Post Operations and Digital […]

February 16, 2022

NBC Sports selects Telestream for production of Winter Games

NBC Sports has selected Telestream to provide media capture, automated media processing, closed captioning, and test and measurement equipment for its production of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from Beijing, China, February 2–20. The announcement was made today by Darryl Jefferson, VP of Post Operations and Digital Workflow, NBC Sports & Olympics, and Scott Murray, […]

February 16, 2022

Spain: Pirate TV gang dismantled

Spanish police have dismantled a gang of pay-TV pirates in Madrid, arresting six people for the fraud of potentially €1.2 million in pay-TV fees. Some 24,000 illegal STBs have been seized and 12,000 homes have been disconnected. The gang imported the STBs from China and stored them in Madrid where they were sold both domestically […]

February 15, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

FCC to revise satellite rules

The FCC is to make major changes to how it registers the licensing of satellites. The plans come from bipartisan proposals, currently in draft form, from the US House Energy and Commerce Committee and the release of a pair of Bills which should improve how the FCC handles the registration of new satellite proposals. The […]

February 15, 2022By Chris Forrester

US telcos claim $5.6bn to switch out Chinese gear

The FCC says it has received $5.6 billion (€4.9bn) worth of refund requests for its Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Programme, as operators move to replace Huawei and ZTE infrastructure. The FCC opened applications late October, and closed on January 28th, receiving 181 applications. A total of $1.9 billion was originally allocated to the […]

February 7, 2022

NetRange, IK World STB partnership

NetRange, a global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, has announced its partnership with IK World, the OTT STB ODM in China. This collaboration provides IK World with a combination of ACCESS’s NetFront Browser BE and NetRange’s NetRange Smart STB App Store on AOSP. “Our number one priority is to ensure that […]

February 2, 2022

China wants 13,000 satellites

Local reports seem to confirm China’s intentions to build and launch 13,000 low Earth orbiting satellites. The mega-constellation would rival the existing Starlink system from SpaceX, the UK and India-backed OneWeb scheme and a planned similar constellation from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) has called […]

January 31, 2022By Chris Forrester