All Broadcasting articles – Page 4
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
With 22 live sports across 14 venues, the Commonwealth Games is bigger than, say, the UEFA Euros, and more complex by virtue of having multiple disciplines running concurrently.
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Daily NewsLeader IP analyser gets signal generation and SDR/HDR tools
Leader has released a major update to its LVB440 IP analyser. The instrument’s IP traffic and signal monitoring resources are now supplemented by signal generation tools plus the ability to monitor and analyse SR Live Metadata required for mutual conversion of HDR and SDR.
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Daily NewsHitomi MatchBox – now with added Latency
Lots of things can add tiny amounts of delay to a signal path, making getting everything in sync tricky. Now, Hitomi’s new MatchBox Latency feature can analyse delay without delay, and with millisecond accuracy.
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NewsBAFTA announces appointment of Jane Millichip as new CEO
BAFTA has appointed former Sky Studios Chief Content Officer Jane Millichip as its next Chief Executive.
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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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NewsChannel 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 TrendsTour 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 NewsBroadcast 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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NewsAmazon 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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NewsEBU 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 NewsNEP 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 TrendsBehind 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 TrendsAvid 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 TrendsApple 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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NewsObituary: 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 TrendsEvolving 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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NewsBBC 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 NewsMediaKind 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 NewsM2A 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.
