Advanced Television

Emmy

My Perfect Supercar signs Small World international deal

Mediafisch CEO Björn Hering announced the company, together with Elysian Fields, has signed a deal with Small World, a Joe Lewis Company (JLC), to be the worldwide distribution and production partners for the unscripted television series My Perfect Supercar. The series is being produced in association with one of the most exclusive clubs in the […]

June 24, 2021

Disney+ to premiere Genius: Aretha on June 4

Disney+ has revealed that the multiple Emmy award-winning anthology series “Genius: Aretha” starring Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”, “The Color Purple”) will premiere in the UK on June 4th. “Genius” is National Geographic’s critically acclaimed anthology series that dramatises the fascinating stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators and their extraordinary achievements with their volatile, passionate and […]

April 28, 2021

The Collectv appoints Shadbolt as Operational Coordinator

The Collectv, the Emmy award-winning broadcast solutions and workflows consultancy, has announced the appointment of Fiona Shadbolt as Operational Coordinator. With extensive experience in television and digital platforms, she will coordinate operational movements on projects and take charge in dealing with The Collectv’s clients, scheduling equipment and crew, and all logistical movements. With over fifteen […]

March 11, 2021

Sky receives record number of noms at RTS Programme Awards 2021

Sky has received a record-breaking 13 nominations at the 2021 Royal Television Society Programme Awards, across all key programme genres, beating its previous best of eight nominations in 2020 and 2019. The nominations, which were announced this morning, are: Male actor: Lennie James for Save Me Too. James, who also serves as writer and creator […]

March 2, 2021

Brightcove wins 2 Emmys

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has recognized Brightcove with two Emmy Awards for excellence and creativity in technology and engineering. In a blog post, Namita Dhallan, Chief Product Officer at Brightcove, wrote: “We are proud to join a distinguished group of honorees that have had a material impact on television and video […]

January 28, 2021

Encoding.com honoured with 2020 Emmy

Encoding.com, the cloud media processing service, has received a 2020 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its development of Massive Processing Optimised Compression Technologies, utilised by many Fortune 1000 Media & Entertainment companies, broadcasters and cable providers to process their multiscreen video-on-demand workflows. The announcement was […]

January 26, 2021

SSIMWAVE wins 2nd Emmy in 6 years

For the second time in six years, an Emmy Award for groundbreaking work in television video quality will come to the SSIMWAVE team. SSIMWAVE is being honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for work in Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. In […]

January 26, 2021

ATEME video-compression wins Emmy Awards triple crown

ATEME, a player in video-delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has received three Technology & Engineering Emmy awards from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for its outstanding achievements in video compression that affect media delivery and distribution. ATEME, the only company in the industry with full ownership […]

January 26, 2021

160 Emmy nominations for Netflix

Netflix has seen its content earn a combined 160 Emmy nominations – a record amount that beats the 137 nods received by HBO in 2019. HBO still had the most-nominated show in Watchmen – an innovative sequel to the celebrated graphic novel that tackled racism in the US – which earned 26 nods. Succession also […]

July 29, 2020