Features
People on the move – May
A monthly round-up of appointments and movements in the broadcast industry.
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Production & Post
Gearhouse Broadcast serves French Open
Gearhouse Broadcast has been contracted by sports production companies Input Media, and Japanese satellite and pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW to provide onsite broadcast facilities for...
News
Business
Drahi expands telecoms empire to US with Suddenlink acquisition
Altice will acquire 70 per cent of the share capital in Suddenlink, the seventh largest US cable operator with 1.5 million residential and 90,000...
Business
TVBEverywhere
BBC R&D and EE trial 4G Broadcast at 2015 FA Cup Final
BBC Research & Development worked with EE and other partners to stage a trial of 4G Broadcast at the FA Cup Final at Wembley...
News
Analysis
NewBay Connect: Integrated loudness management
NewBay Connect, the global resource portal for media technology content, has re-launched this week, and is now easier to navigate with a fresh look.
White Paper
News Releases
Brightcove announces Amazon Fire TV Web App Kit for Video Cloud customers
Brightcove has released a Brightcove-specific Amazon Fire TV web app kit designed to optimise delivery of content from Brightcove Video Cloud directly to Amazon...
News
Business
Shazam introduces visual recognition capabilities
Shazam has unveiled a visual recognition functionality that extends the company’s mobile engagement platform. Thanks to a series of partnerships with companies worldwide, everything...
News
Production & Post
Sony and Memnon Archiving Services partner for digital preservation
Memnon Archiving Services and Sony are joining forces to extend their digital preservation capabilities, to help clients deliver large-scale digital preservations of audio-visual content,...
News
Business
Meerkat and Periscope to face Sqeeqee rival?
California-based social networking platform, Sqeeqee.com has unveiled its own free full-featured live video streaming software, staking its claim among developers like Meerkat and Periscope.
News
Business
Gold Sponsor Ericsson joins TVBEurope 2020
Ericsson has confirmed its support of the fast approaching TVBEurope 2020 event, and signed up as Gold Sponsor.
Business
TVBEverywhere
More than half of UK homes now own a tablet
Ofcom research has found that fifty-four per cent of households in the UK now own a tablet device, up from just 2 per cent...
News
Business
RTS opens Craft and Design Awards with new Director’s category
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has launched the RTS Craft and Design Awards 2014-2015. The Awards recognise the huge variety of skills and processes...
Business
Business
Sky creates platform for easy access to TV images
Sky is launching the Sky Editorial Asset Centre, a new digital asset management platform designed to enable easier sharing of its stock of still...
Business
EVS partners with TVBEurope for Strategy Week IP webinar
TVBEurope, in partnership with EVS, is delighted to announce a free-to-attend webinar focusing on IP and live production on Wednesday 1 July as part...
News
TVBEverywhere
CHILI unveils UHD service with Thomson Video Networks
CHILI, the independent Italian provider for the digital distribution of movies and TV series, is using Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE VS7000 multiscreen and HEVC...
Business
Sky brings more Arts to Europe
This summer, Sky will launch an initiative to bring the best of the arts to its 21 million customers across Italy, Germany, Austria, Ireland...
News
Business
Beamly beats Twitter for Eurovision engagement
Beamly topped 9 million engagements during this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night, smashing Twitter’s reported figure of 6 million tweets.
News
Business
Aframe confirmed as TVBEurope 2020 Gold Sponsor
There is just one month to go until the first TVBEurope 2020 conference and Aframe has confirmed its support, joining the event as Gold...
Business
Analysis
TV Catchup – (nearly) the end of the road?
DLA Piper’s John Cloke (senior associate), Patrick Mitchell (legal director), and Jonathan Salt (trainee), assess the recent case brought by UK free-to-air broadcasters against...
Features
Production & Post
TV stations rely on Brainstorm for Spanish elections
Spanish broadcasters TVE1, Antena 3 TV and Televisión Canaria, once again chose Brainstorm Multimedia to cover the regional elections which took place on Sunday...
Business
Google launches shoppable ads on YouTube
Google last week announced that it will be adding a new feature to its YouTube video adverts, allowing consumers to buy products by clicking...
News
Business
BT TV customers get Game of Thrones with HBO deal
BT TV will become the first pay-TV provider in the UK to offer customers the buy-to-keep box set of Game of Thrones and other...
News
Business
New Content Horizons – one week to go
There is just one week to go until Futuresource Consulting’s New Content Horizon event at the Ham Yard Hotel, London.
News
Business
Formula E grows digital with Grabyo VIP
Formula E is partnering with London startup Grabyo to bring the digital experience to fans and help accelerate the growth of its digital audience.
News
TVBEverywhere
Sky launches Online TV box in Italy
Sky in Italy this week launched the Sky Online TV box. Similar to its NOW TV offering, the device turns a standard TV set...
News
Business
Tesco and Wuaki.tv bring film and TV content to hudl
Video on-demand streaming service Wuaki.tv will be pre-installed on all Tesco hudl2 tablets. The supermarket’s own-brand model is currently the second best-selling tablet on...
News
TVBEverywhere
Vodafone and Valencia FC in Spain’s first 4G LTE Broadcast trial
Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE VS7000 multiscreen and HEVC encoder was chosen by Vodafone Spain and Valencia Football Club for Spain's first live trial of...
News
News Releases
Italy’s RAI adds to Sony XDCAM equipment
Sony Professional Solutions Europe has signed an agreement with Italy's national public broadcasting company, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) for the further supply of over 300...
News
Production & Post
UK’s most northerly election count covered with Quicklink Mac Live
This month saw the UK elections commence. News on the run up, during and post elections have been covered extensively by the world’s press.
News
Business
European nations accelerate alongside America in the programmatic race
The last twelve months show significant growth in the programmatic marketplace thanks to broader adoption of programmatic buying on all channels around the globe,...
News
Business
Watching 3D films can help improve IQ and brain power
Neuroscientist Patrick Fagan, associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, and Professor Brendan Walker of Thrill Laboratory have found that watching films in 3D sharpens the brain...
News
Business
Newstag and UN Food Programme sign global content and fundraising deal
Joining over a dozen global charities, NGOs and non-profit organisations, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting...
News
Interviews
Why broadcasters need superior production workflows
As the way we consume media evolves, from traditional TV shows through to streaming live footage online, broadcasters need to stay ahead of the...
News
Business
The Hospital Club and CIC launch h.Club 100 campaign
The Hospital Club’s h.Club 100 Awards, in partnership with the Creative Industries Council, launched this week with the opening of public nominations.
Production & Post
Avid Everywhere powers Cannes Film Festival
Avid solutions will be used to power the post production of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
News
Production & Post
Eyeheight legaliser secures the field in French Open Tennis
Eyeheight's video legalising technology will be deployed in Paris for the annual French Open tennis tournament.
News
Business
Women still earning less than men in TV industry
Creative Skillset, the industry training and skills body, has announced the results of its creative media workforce survey.
Analysis
NewBay Connect: Telestream
‘The essentials of video transcoding enabling acquisition, interoperability, and distribution in digital media’ is one of several white papers from Telestream, available free of...
Production & Post
IHSE equips France Télévisions in studio upgrade
France Télévisions has completed a major upgrade to two of its main studios, with the help of IHSE. The manufacturer devised a completely new...
News
Production & Post
Radio Liberty enters TV news sector with Octopus
Octopus7 software has been used by Radio Liberty for the creation of TV news programme Current Time, a new joint production with Voice of...
News
TVBEverywhere
ITV Sport chooses SIS LIVE for Rugby World Cup connectivity
SIS Live has been announced as the supplier of connectivity services for host broadcaster ITV, throughout the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
News
Business
UKTV hits highest ever operating 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.
Business