Khalid Khoury.Quest Arabiya is asking viewers to post videos, images and stories on its social media platforms detailing the personal journeys and events undertaken during Ramadan, ...
How is crew welfare being improved through on-board communications on ships?Keith Murray, Product Manager, Thuraya TelecommunicationsIt allows crew to stay in touch with family and friends, via social media, video ...
BeIN has chosen EshailSat to transmit live coverage of the UEFA Euro 2016. The matches are being broadcast in 4K from 26° East hotspot covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
BroadcastAsia 2016 brought together attendees from 102 countries.This years BroadcastAsia, CommunicAsia and EnterpriseAsia brought together 48,000 attendees from 102 countries and regions. The exhibitions provided a platform to ...
Mahmoud Al Rasheed (l) and Steve Smith.The UAEs Arabian Radio Network has added new digital streams to complement its terrestrial offerings as an extension of its ...
David McCourt.Ireland-based Telecoms group Granahan McCourt Capital (GMC) has launched a new digital TV platform in the MENA region. Dedicated to underserved areas of the world, ...
TV.AE, the latest video-on-demand (VOD) platform is now available for subscription, and free-content online. TV.AE is a UAE based media-entertainment venture that is geared primarily for an Arabic audience across the ...
Chris O'Hearn.The tview People Meter system has been endorsed as being aligned with international standards and recommended for use by the UAE media industry, according to ...
BroadcastPro Middle East and Avid hosted a roundtable on May 19, 2016, to discuss the changing face of sports entertainment in the region. Featuring leading names from the Middle East ...
Wohler iAM.Wohler Technologies will be demonstrating two new products for its iAM series at BroadcastAsia 2016 the iAM-MIX multichannel audio monitor and mixer and iAM-AUDIO ...
Tim Felstead.Although there have been one-off events produced in 4K, the technology is still far from ready to be adopted for mainstream broadcast. Tim Felstead discusses ...
Pictured (L-R): David Butorac, Chief Executive Officer of OSN; Fahad Albutairi;Trevor Noah; Raffaele Annecchino, EVP & MD of VIMN South Europe, Middle East and Africa; and ...
In its first ever appearance at BroadcastAsia, Cinegy, which develops and produces software technology for digital video processing, asset management, video compression and automation, and playout, will feature all of ...
BroadcastAsia2016 exhibitor, Peter Löfling, Director, Asia Pacific from Edgeware, shares his predictions and imperatives for the broadcasting industry in 2016.Living in an on-demand world, a simple swipe of ones mobile ...
Feras Al Suliti.There was scepticism in the market about the survival of Al Jazeera Documentary channel. While some said it would be shut down, others wagered ...
Pre-school series Go Jetters, will premiere in the Middle East on Monday 2nd May at 18.00 KSA daily exclusive to the CBeebies channel. Following the adventures of four plucky international ...
On the sidelines of a live Dune Bash event organised by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in Dubai, Vibhuti Arora caught up with Gerrit Meier, President of WWE, for an exclusive ...
Majid TV's Emirati authors at the signing ceremony.Majid Entertainment has teamed up with seven budding Emirati authors to produce exclusive content for Majid Kids TV.During an ...
Yousef Al-Obaidly.BeIN has signed a long-term deal to exclusively broadcast Wimbledon in the MENA region. With this landmark deal, beIN has become the first ever and only broadcaster globally ...
A documentary about endangered species and conservation work around the world will premiere on Quest Arabiya in celebration of Earth Day.The Conservationists documentary was commissioned by The Mohamed bin Zayed ...
An AMBEO 3D Audio 9.1 installation featuring a selection of Neumann monitor loudspeakers and a virtual reality experience recorded with Sennheisers AMBEO VR mic are being showcased at ...
Ericsson has announced the launch of Piero Augmented Reality, a software system that gives broadcasters the ability to enhance sports programming and create more immersive viewing experiences.Ericsson's Piero Augmented Reality ...
Nart Bouran, Head of Sky News Arabia.Twitter and Sky News Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch an interactive panel discussion on Twitter. The ...
NAB Show is examining the advances and trends in both advertising technology and consumer engagement.The new Advanced Advertising Theatre, located in the North Hall, brings together key content leaders using the ...
The 2016 NAB Show is featuring a broad slate of activities dedicated to the latest trends in virtual reality (VR). The 2016 NAB Show showcases the latest VR content from ...
Avid has announced its plan to accelerate the media industrys transition to IP by supporting real time IP signals in the Avid Media Central platform, delivering a unified environment for ...
BeIN Media Group has announced that beIN SPORTS Instagram following has reached a 2 million strong in just over two years.The beIN SPORTS Instagram account has been ranked first in ...
The end-to-end broadcast infrastructure at the Al Jazeera studios in Doha is being revamped as part of the much talked-about Al Jazeera Workplace Transformation Project. Vibhuti Arora finds out more ...
Dubai Network Channels Arabic language reality TV show, Fashion Star, concluded its first season on Wednesday 6th April. Arwa Alammari, a female fashion designer from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...
Suitcase TV is showcasing a stand-alone version of its storage platform MediaStor at NAB. Demonstrated for the first time in the US, MediaStor aggregates multiple storage servers into a single ...
The inaugural MIPDrama Screenings showcased 12 high-end drama series from 10 countries. Each series made its international première in Cannes supported by talent and production executives. More than 350 television ...
BeIN is launching nine new channels that will become available to its subscribers from April 01, 2016. The new channels are claimed to add variety to the beIN portfolio and strengthen ...
Al Jazeera English, Doha newsroom.Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network is cutting 500 jobs, which is about 10% of its total workforce.It is said that the job cuts ...
Well-known Emirati commentator Ali Saeed Alkaabi will return to beIN Sports this April. AlKaabi is considered among the most popular football commentator in the MENA region. With a substantial fan-following and more than half ...
Communic Indonesia, the Communications and Information Technology Exhibition, will be held for the first time at the Jakarta International Expo, Indonesia, from 31 August 3 September 2016. The exhibition ...
Houssam Khaled.Ericsson has transformed the playout centre at twofour54, which the technology company acquired last year. BroadcastPro ME speaks to Ericsson's Houssam Al Khaled to find ...
The judges for Arab Idol Season 3.The growth in locally made talk shows, game shows, reality shows and childrens TV programming is being well received in ...
Filmmaker Kirill Kripak won the 48 hour Film Project Dubai.Kirill Kripaks short film Captain Detective won the Dubai leg of the 48-Hour Film Project in 2015. ...
Laurent Gignoux.Saudi Broadcasting Corporation is working with French digitisation specialist Vectracom on a large archival project to make its assets more accessible in the future. BroadcastPro ...
The Clangers are a family of pink, long-nosed, inventive and loveable mouse-shaped creatures who live on a small blue planet, out in the starry stretches of ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.In an interview with BroadcastPro ME, David Butorac, CEO of OSN, discusses the current pay TV scenario in the region and how OSN ...
Dubai Channels Network's fashion-based reality TV show, Fashion Star, is showcasing the creative skills of designers in the Arab world as it heads into its seventh episode this week. The show ...
OSN recently upgraded its broadcast facilities with a brand new network operations centre at its Dubai headquarters. Vijaya Cherian goes on-site to find out how the new facility will improve ...
Using a new generation of mobile IP transmitters, Sky News Arabias field reporters now capture and stream live, broadcast-quality video from any location on earth. Dave Mace, Head of Projects and ...
Majid TV has launched its new website and free mobile app for users across the globe.The website and app will bring TV clips, music, games and issues of the magazine to ...
Andrew Wajs.There needs to be greater awareness that cybercrime has evolved in recent years. In essence, the attack surface is now much bigger, making platform security ...
Dubai Channels Network has unveiled a fully revamped IP-based radio facility for its two channels broadcasting from Dubai. The state-of-the-art facility was handed over to the state broadcaster in December ...
While focusing on content, MIPTV this year will pay equal attention to technology. BroadcastPro ME looks at what you can expect at the event next month and whats in store for ...
BeIN Media Group has remained a quiet player for a long time. Over the years, it has quietly amassed a large number of premium sports rights, the English Premier League ...
Israel Esteban.Alongside beIN Media Groups commercial strategy to enter the entertainment space, its technical infrastructure and workflows also needed to be prepped to accommodate its expansion ...
CABSAT 2016 opened at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) today. More than 950 exhibiting brands from over 60 countries have descended on the 22nd edition of the event that covers broadcast, ...
Yousef Al-Obaidly.beIN Media Group has been quietly acquiring MENA sports broadcast rights over the years. Last November, it took an ambitious step by announcing its entry ...
Erstream has announced the integration of NexGuard forensic watermarking into its online video delivery platform.Erstream offers a comprehensive OTT video delivery solution for live and On Demand, which includes multi-bitrate encoding, CDN delivery, edge ...
Gearhouse Broadcast Gulf, the Middle Eastern arm of broadcast services specialist Gearhouse Broadcast has launched a privately owned multi-functional outside broadcast production vehicle with DSNG capabilities. The Iveco 70C17 is ...
On Monday, Arabsat is hosting a workshop for the Satellite Interference Reduction Group at the Address Hotel, Dubai. We caught up with Martin Coleman, Executive Director, the Satellite Interference Reduction ...
The broadcast industry has changed dramatically over the last decade, even just over the last few years. While the viewer has certainly had a lot to do with it ...
Nasser Al Khelaifi, Chairman and CEO of beIN Media Group.beIN MEDIA GROUP has confirmed the purchase of Miramax from previous owners, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and ...
The filming of Bollywood production Dishoom, facilitated by twofour5, has wrapped in Abu Dhabi after six weeks. With a final count of 38 filming days, Dishoom is Abu Dhabis longest ...
Chair of Media Zone Authority-Abu Dhabi (MZA) and twofour54 Board, Noura al Kaabi, and Abu Dhabi Ports Chief Executive Officer, Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi.Twofour54 and ...
Vimond Media Solutions has launched Vimond Connect, the first solution for digital media service providers who want to facilitate a social media experience for viewers of video on demand.Vimond Connect ...
