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Newstag and Euronews agree distribution deal
Newstag, a mobile first news video service based in Stockholm, has announced an agreement with the Euronews channel
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RTL delivers IP-based live shows using cloud production
TV show Carlo's TV Café was broadcast using cloud production technology on Sunday 22 November, in what DutchView Infostrada claims was a world first
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BBC World Service to get £85 million government funding
The UK government will invest £85 million a year in the BBC’s digital, TV and radio services globally, to increase the reach of the...
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UKTV hits highest ever profits at £72.2 million
UKTV is officially the fastest growing broadcaster in Britain, it claimed this morning, and is now vying for the title of top non-PSB broadcaster.
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Discover Digital launches OTT VoD platform with Broadpeak
Discover Digital, a South African digital entertainment company, has selected Broadpeak's video delivery solution to power its OTT transactional VoD and subscription VoD platform
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NASA selects Quantum for Kennedy Space Center
NASA has chosen Quantum’s StorNext as the foundation for its new content management and storage system at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
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ITV Hub to go live next week
A promotional ad for ITV’s new online service has hit YouTube. The ITV Hub will become the new digital destination for all its TV...
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Technicolor completes acquisition of Cisco CPE business
Technicolor has completed the acquisition of Cisco Connected Devices, the company’s customer premises equipment (CPE) business for $600 million
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Sky promises ‘Fluid Viewing’ with new service
Sky has announced its new home entertainment system, Sky Q, designed to create a TV viewing ‘ecosystem’ in the home
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The DPP launches its roadmap for 2016
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) announced its new programme of work for 2016 at an event in London yesterday
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BBC to cut £150 million for “leaner” service
The BBC has detailed how it plans to make £150 million worth of savings in order to address a shortfall in funding identified earlier...
Business
Production & Post
Twentieth anniversary for Rory Peck Awards
The Rory Peck Awards, now in its twentieth year, returned to central London to honour the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in news...
News
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Ericsson and Airtel unveil NuVu SVoD service in Nigeria
Ericsson and telecoms provider Airtel Nigeria have announced a subscription video on-demand content service, NuVu, giving subscribers in Nigeria access to around 3,000 local...
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Netflix to reach 115 million subscribers
The number of subscription video on-demand (SVoD) homes is forecast to reach 306 million across 200 countries by 2020, according to a new report...
Business
Production & Post
Festival 4K marks IPTV 4K UHD channel in France
Playout service provider Basmedia, is launching a new HEVC UHD service using Ateme’s TITAN Live. The channel, Festival 4K, will launch in France
Business
Younger viewers unfazed by poor quality of experience
One in five viewers will abandon poor video streaming services immediately, and after such an experience one in five will never return to that...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens available as Dolby Cinema experience
The upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the film series, will be available as a Dolby Cinema experience
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NBC Nigeria chooses Paywizard for digital TV switchover
Paywizard has been selected by Inview, the broadcast and OTT software and services specialist, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of Nigeria, to support...
Business
Liberty Global acquires Cable and Wireless for £3.5 billion
Liberty Global has announced its acquisition of London-based Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), in a £3.5 billion deal which the company hopes will boster...
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70 per cent of mobile data traffic will be from video by 2021
Almost a quarter of Europeans watch streamed on-demand content on a daily basis, 50 per cent watch such content weekly, and a third of...
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Sixty Ease Live integrates with Vizrt’s Viz Artist and Viz Trio
TV experience company SIXTY has announced that its Ease Live interactive graphics solution fully integrates with Vizrt’s Viz Artist and Viz Trio for online...
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Guavus introduces analytics suite for real time customer experience insight
Guavus, a provider of big data analytics applications, has launched a new suite of applications to enable customer experience analytics that show the customer...
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SATIS to go ahead in Paris
SATIS, the annual broadcast tradeshow in Paris, is set to go ahead this week following the terror attacks in the city on 13 November
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Only one per cent of UK TV made by a BAME director
A Directors UK report has highlighted the significant under-employment and under-representation of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) directors in UK television production
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Sky and HBO strike first pan-European content deal
Sky and HBO have agreed a new deal that will make HBO programmes available on Sky Atlantic for 21 million Sky customers across Europe
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VisionTV unveils app for 247 on the go viewing
Vision247 has launched a new app to live stream of all 20+ channels available on VisionTV
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Net Insight goes over the top
Media transport provider Net Insight is entering the OTT market in order, it claims, to solve live OTT streaming challenges
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Sony unveils XDCAM shoulder camcorder
Sony has announced the newest addition to its PXW series of shoulder-mount camcorders. The PXW-X400 promises stronger network and wireless capabilities, improved weight balance
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Altice to offer SVoD service
Altice has launched Zive, a new SVoD platform, as well as a new fibre set-top box for the French market
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TF1 confirms Newen deal
French broadcaster TF1 will acquire a 70 per cent stake in FLCP, the holding company of the production and distribution group Newen
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Alibaba acquires Youku Tudou
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is to acquire multi-screen entertainment and media company Youku Tudou, for around $3.7 billion
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TV3 adopts Yospace solution following World Cup success
Irish commercial broadcaster TV3 implemented Yospace’s dynamic advertising replacement solution as part of its live streaming of the Rugby World Cup 2015
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Vubiquity to sell digital content in stores
Vubiquity in discussions with a number of retailers to launch a product that would allow consumers to buy digital content, initially movies, in high...
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BBC launches buy to keep service
The BBC has launched a new digital service that allows audiences to purchase and keep BBC programmes
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RTS announces shortlist for Craft and Design Awards 2014-2015
The Awards, spread over 27 categories, recognise the huge variety of skills and processes involved in programme production
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Australia beat New Zealand in digital engagement during Rugby World Cup
Data science company 4C has revealed the results of its Rugby World Cup tracking on TV and social media, providing insight into the behaviour...
Business
IBC2015 4K Charity Fun Run hailed a great success
Elemental’s 4K 4Charity Fun Run at IBC raised €2,7012.51 for global charity CARE, and €6,753.13 for a local charity in Amsterdam, Jeugdsportfonds
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Vice’s new TV channel to launch next year
Vice Media has partnered with A+E Networks to launch a new channel, Viceland, which will be available in early 2016
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Project Uno: how collaboration is reshaping the TV industry
Television has undergone the biggest of transformations, from black and white to colour, from analogue to digital and now to content everywhere via multiscreen....
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Simplestream joins Facebook Video Publishing Partner programme
Simplestream, provider of live and live-to-VoD services to UK and international broadcasters, has joined Facebook ‘s Video Publishing Partner programme, giving broadcasters and media...
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Production & Post
Viacom and TiVo partner for data and ad solutions
TiVo Research and Analytics and Viacom are to form an alliance focused on advancing Viacom's data and advertising solutions
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Ziggo launches free sports channel
Dutch cable operator Ziggo will launch a new sports channel this month, featuring major events, a weekly talkshow and sports-related films and documentaries
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