DG: Licence Fee needs to rise to realistic levels for BBC to stay relevant
Major Businesses
18-09-2018
BBC Director General Tony Hall has implored the UK government to allow it to find the funding that he feels is necessary to allow it to continue to stay competitive in a broadcast industry increasingly dominated by vastly wealthy American streaming and IT giants.
MBC aims to raise MENA content bar with Studios launch
Major Businesses
18-09-2018
Saudi-owned media giant MBC has unveiled a new subsidiary to produce premium films, television and on-demand content, aimed at audiences both within the Middle East and around the globe.
ZDF Enterprises sells Find Me In Paris to Nickelodeon UK
Deals
18-09-2018
Further extending the programme’s reach into English speaking markets, ZDF Enterprises has announced Cottonwood Media’s hit tween drama series Find Me In Paris has been taken up by Viacom subsidiary Nickelodeon in the UK.
IBC 2018: Concurrent powers Qvest cloud
Infrastructure
18-09-2018
Media delivery and storage solutions delivery firm for content owners, broadcasters and service providers, Concurrent Technology, has signed a global reseller agreement with broadcast and media technology systems architect Qvest Media.
RDK makes two-pronged attempt to boost TV app development programme
Infrastructure
18-09-2018
RDK Management has unveiled a TV app programme that it says will make it easier to develop and launch apps consistently across RDK-based set-top boxes (STBs).
YouTube eyes premium subs to fend off fiercer competition
Media Analysis
18-09-2018
The FAANG companies may be sinking their teeth into the video market but they are now under as much pressure as their traditional TV rivals and need to diversify business models in order to stay ahead says research from IHS Markit.
ProSiebenSat.1 takes on eSuite to drive OTT platform sales
OTT
18-09-2018
Subscription and billing platform provider MPP Global has been chosen by German media house ProSiebenSat.1 to drive 7TV, its new over-the-top platform.
IBC 2018: Arabsat unveils Newtec, Talia tie-ups
Satellite
18-09-2018
Arabsat is extending its partnerships with Newtec for high throughput satellite (HTS) services in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and with Talia for a broadcast uplink platform.
IBC 2018: Anevia, Viaccess-Orca partner for streaming latency reduction
BBC News goes mobile in Indian on Jio TV
IBC 2018: Tata Elexi selected for Airtel Digital TV STB
IBC 2018: Hispasat, Quadrille introduce satellite-based VOD
IBC 2018: Imagine Comms plays out for Janata Television
IBC 2018: Avid inks multi-year agreement for news production with TV 2 Denmark
IBC 2018: MediaKind announces personalised ad/content distribution rights suite
IBC 2018: Irdeto secures Airtel digital TV content platform
Turner renews Hollywood’s Best Film Directors from Prime
IBC 2018: NAGRA, Samsung launch smart TV security for premium pay-TV
IBC 2018: Andorra Telecom enhances user experience with ruwido
Norigin expands linear TV head-end for broadcast delivery
IBC 2018: Anevia, Red Bee team for managed OTT platform
IBC 2018: ARRIS embraces Linux Foundation for video networking
IBC 2018: Super RTL turns to Ooyala for supply-chain optimisation
Com Hem taps TiVo for personalised content discovery platform
Local, live and linear to drive massive global growth of premium OTT
IBC 2018: Nokia to sell IP video business
IBC 2018: Conviva enhances video AI alerts with Ecosystem Module
IBC 2018: BBC R&D solves iPlayer World Cup ‘lag’
IBC 2018: ARRIS continues international expansion
IBC 2018: Arqiva taps 3SS for customer portal development
IBC 2018: Espial’s Elevate partners with AWS for the cloud
Sony ESPN wins fight for Mike Tyson-mentored MMA league
Star India’s Hotstar launches in UK
FA Cup joins Singtel TV’s football rights trophies
Qinetic brings first fitness channel to XUMO
NASA UHD channel blasts off on Roku
Mexico’s Totalplay taps MediaKind for encoding
AXN Spin turns to esports with HUD
Netflix faces subs losses if it includes ads between shows
Mystery Road leads to BBC Four
Huawei launches Euro streaming as it eyes UHD broadband boost
IBM Watson AI powers IRIS.TV recommendations
eSports poised for major uptick
Russia’s Beeline creates TV buzz with Kaltura
Synaptics forms partnership for on Android TV turnkey solution
Ooyala implements video localisation with ODMedia
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