Advanced Television

Faroe Islands

Open Broadcast delivers live sport via OneWeb

An Open Broadcast Systems decoder, plus Croatian live sports production house MSTV and a Kymeta terminal, helped deliver live coverage of a UEFA football match from the Faroe Islands using OneWeb’s satellites to viewers “around the world”. The game was a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying game, which the Islanders lost against Albania on June 20th. […]

July 13, 2023By Chris Forrester

BBC Four acquires Trom series

BBC Four has acquired crime series Trom from REinvent International Sales The six-part show based on Jógvan Isaksen crime novels and filmed in the Faroe Isles, follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (played by Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, his estranged daughter, claiming that her life is in danger. Hannis reluctantly returns home […]

January 28, 2022

Vodafone Iceland connects to Red Bee’s Channel Store

Red Bee Media is now delivering channel aggregation services to Vodafone Iceland, with the telco accessing live signals for its subscription broadcast packages through Red Bee’s Channels Store. Red Bee has also deployed a dedicated Point of Presence (POP) in order to deliver channels from Faroe Islands to Iceland. With 1,200 active channels and a […]

December 21, 2021