All broadcasting articles – Page 4
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NewsChannel 4 revenues top £1 billion for first time
Channel 4’s revenues have exceeded £1 billion for the first time, growing by 25% year-on-year to £1.2 billion, according to figures in its 2021 annual report.
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Channel 4 sale up in the air after Boris Johnson resignation
Plans to privatise UK broadcaster Channel 4 are in doubt following the collapse of Boris Johnson’s government.
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Industry Trends
Tour de France 2022: Behind the scenes with the WBDS mixed reality Cube
Behind the scenes at this year’s Tour de France 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports used the Cube studio to enhance its coverage of cycling’s greatest show.
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Daily News
Broadcast Solutions acquires Thum + Mahr
Broadcast Solutions has acquired the systems integration division of Thum + Mahr in Monheim, Germany. After more than 40 years of successful activity, the managing partners Peter Thum and Hanno Mahr have decided to continue the system integration division in the future under the umbrella of the Broadcast Solutions Group ...
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Amazon and BBC break BT Sports’ exclusive hold over Champions League
BT Sport has lost its exclusive hold over coverage of the UEFA Champions League, with streaming service Amazon securing 17 games and the BBC airing highlights for the first time.
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EBU re-elects president and vice-president, confirms Noel Curran as DG
Delphine Ernotte-Cunci and Petr Dvořák have been re-elected to serve a second two-year mandate as president and vice-president of the executive board at the European Broadcasting Union, while UA:PBC’s Mykola Chernotytskyi and BR’s Dr Katja Wildermuth have taken up vacant positions on the board.
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Daily News
NEP unveils Supershooter 6 truck
Media technology company NEP Group announced that its US broadcast services team released a new mobile unit, Supershooter 6, based on NEP’s broadcast control (TFC).
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: The Championships, Wimbledon 2022
With more matches broadcast than ever before, some in 360-degrees and plans for an UHD HDR upgrade, Wimbledon braces for two weeks of global attention.
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Industry Trends
Avid returns to IBC 2022 “a little bit differently”
IABM CEO Peter White talks to Jeff Rosica (CEO and President, Avid) about the company’s decision to exhibit again at IBC in Amsterdam.
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Industry Trends
Apple scoring MLS rights is part of a growing SVOD trend
The broadcast game is changing. In the pursuit of growth, streaming platforms are turning their attention to grabbing sports rights from traditional broadcasters.
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Obituary: Michael Cox (1932–2022)
One of the great joys of IBC and the industry it represents is the wonderful characters that have inhabited it. Mike Cox, who died on 1 April, was most definitely one of those characters.
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Industry Trends
Evolving CDN strategies to satisfy the “content consumption boom”
Increased investment in content delivery, including multi-CDNs and open caching, remains among the most noticeable of all broadcast industry trends.
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News
BBC to close BBC Four and CBBC and cut 1,000 jobs
The BBC is to stop broadcasting linear channels BBC Four and CBBC and cut 1,000 jobs to save money following the UK government’s decision to freeze the licence for two years.
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Daily News
MediaKind completes AWS FTR
MediaKind announced that it has become an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner and completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR).
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Daily News
M2A Media completes AWS FTR
Cloud-based video solutions specialist M2A Media completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) for its live cloud Internet Protocol (IP) transport product, M2A Connect.
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BT agrees sports TV deal with Warner Bros. Discovery
BT has finalised a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to form a 50:50 joint venture company to create a new premium sport offering for the UK & Ireland.
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Video
IBC Digital 2021 Trends: Production & Post
In the panel session from IBC Digital 2021, panelists discuss what has changed as film and television production regains momentum.
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IBC Digital 2021: Latest Achievements in 4K Live Streaming
Using SDN design for communication between the ISP and the CDN to offer an efficient and reliable live streaming service
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IBC Digital 2021: Remote Production (Pre-COVID 19 and Post-COVID 19)
In 2021 we saw different leagues slowly starting coming back, we could see that operational teams located at different locations are able to share production resources for the successful delivery of live sports.
