Adrian Pennington

Broadcasters everywhere are facing the same pressures: rising production demands, distributed workflows, sustainability targets, and the need to scale without endlessly expanding hardware footprints or cost. Software-defined operations offer a route out of the impasse – but there’s a problem. 

Alex Charalambides, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, CNN, brings digital reinvention to the IBC2026 stage.

With the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Global Icon Award in hand, Sir Gary Oldman delivered a candid acceptance speech, revealing how his unique techniques, mindset, and early experiences in the industry brought his most iconic roles to life.

Speed, flexibility, and reliability – that’s the dream for many a live production. However, when public network coverage is patchy, what’s a broadcaster to do? The 2026 Accelerator Project, Network Control, deploys standardised network APIs to tackle this problem head-on.

As traditional broadcasters battle decreasing budgets and attention spans, brands have come to the fore as collaborators in an increasingly lucrative and creatively fertile strand of the media business.

It’s a jungle out there. Celiana Cárdenas, Director of Photography, explains how the series evoked the oppressive and unsettling atmosphere of a stalker hunting its prey in Apple TV’s pulp fiction.

A last-minute pivot to Paris brought its own set of challenges as ESL FACEIT assembles the world’s largest esports event. Adrian Pennington reports.

Art and technology combine for epic storytelling, if you believe the marketing for Christopher Nolan’s latest.

A new project, kickstarted and nurtured as an IBC Accelerator, aims to deploy digital twin technology to streamline discoverability of the UK’s studio space and help producers make smarter, more sustainable choices.

For media companies preparing for the next decade of streaming, MoQ may be the most important standard they haven’t yet deployed.