BeIn Media Group and Californian film studio Miramax may strike a deal soon. According to a Reuters report, beIN Media Group hopes to buy the film studio.BeIN has been reinforcing its offering with ...
Panasonic Marketing Middle East & Africa is demonstrating its broadcast and professional AV solutions which feature the latest in 4K technology at CABSAT 2016.This year at CABSAT, Panasonic will highlight ...
From left: JB Perrette of Discovery and Yousef Obaidly of beIN.beIN Media Group and Discovery Communications have confirmed that Fatafeat will no longer be available as ...
Guillaume de Posch, Co-Chief Executive Officer of RTL Group.Guillaume de Posch, Co-Chief Executive Officer of RTL Group, European entertainment network with interests in more than 50 ...
Sachin Gokhale.Linear TV viewing is set to drop worldwide for the first time in 2016, with online video consumption (which grew by 23% in 2015) to ...
Andrew Pert.New exhibitors! A brand new Content Marketplace! More conference specials! Andrew Pert, CABSATs Show Director, tells us what to expect in the 2016 edition of ...
Paul Wallis, Director of Sales, Middle East, Imagine Communications.Imagine Communications will showcase market-ready solutions that demonstrate the operational, productivity and commercial benefits of moving to software-defined ...
Quest Arabiya is launching a new adventure-travel show, Nabd Al Moghamara, which is now being shot in locations across the region from the Maghreb to the Levant.Hussein Gazzazz, a 30-year-old ...
Streaming media player with remote control on white backgroundFriend MTS is ramping up the fight against video piracy with the launch of Viper at CABSAT 2016. ...
Broadcast and media management company VSN has launched 'From End-to-End to Anywhere' concept, worldwide. It joins together traditional content management with new screens, cloud and internet, providing its clients with a ...
Majid Al Ansari.More than 80 top filmmakers and industry professionals attended the European launch of #SupportArabCinema this week at the Berlin International Film Festival, co-hosted by ...
Tim Thorsteinson, CEO, SAMTim Thorsteinson has a notable track record across his 20 years in the industry, having spent time working with Leitch, Miranda and Grass ...
Todays IP technology offers a best-of-all-worlds combination of increasing performance with decreasing costs, says Brad PriceWhile the transition from analogue to digital is nearly complete in all realms of professional audio, ...
Influential decision-makers from Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Netflix, Fox International, NBC Universal, Australias FremantleMedia, ITV studios, Talpa, Dailymotion, Qatars beIN network, the European Broadcasting Union and a host of other major ...
White Collar Dxb, an observational documentary, created and produced by Dubai-based Nomad Productions, recently aired its first season on OSN. Producer Phil Griffiths shares more about the making of the show ...
Ali Jaber, MBC.On the sidelines of Ericssons recent Change Makers Forum in Dubai, Ali Jaber, Group TV Director of MBC, spoke to Vibhuti Arora about the changing ...
In another shocking move, beIN will carry six Discovery channels on its platform as part of a new deal with Discovery Communications, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. Of these, five will ...
Miljenko Logozar.Al Jazeera Arabic, which struggled with a failing newsroom system, replaced it with a new workflow in December, in order to streamline operational efficiencies. In an ...
January started on a rather unusual note, with Al Jazeera America (AJAM) announcing its exit from the US and Sky News Arabia (SNA) simultaneously announcing its digital entry into the ...
As resolutions continue to go higher, there is greater need for data compression to deliver video files faster and without affecting their quality. Here are a few codecs that are commonly ...
Media Post by Custom Consoles.Custom Consoles's MediaPost and the latest version of the EditOne desk make their first Middle East exhibition appearance at CABSAT 2016. Also ...
EshailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, is exhibiting at the annual CABSAT exhibition in Dubai, showcasing Eshail-1, currently transmitting high quality, premium DTH television content from the 25.5/26 degrees East neighborhood ...
Exterity has announced that it will demonstrate its complete IP video product portfolio at CABSAT this year.The Exterity enterprise IP video portfolio enables systems integrators and consultants to easily specify ...
Sarah Jarman.Dubai Channels Network (DCN), a division of Dubai Media Inc., will launch whats being said to be the Arab worlds first fashion reality show. Titled ...
SAM is acquiring Mantrics, an Italian workflow and asset management specialist. Mantrics is a privately-held joint venture, established in 2008 by Digital Video and Video Progetti.SAM has establsihed itself in ...
Rani Raad will continue to oversee Turner's Kids and General Entertainment businesses across Turkey and the Middle East in addition to his other core responsibilities.Rani Raad, ...
Colin Farquhar, CEO, Exterity.Exterity will demonstrate its complete IP video product portfolio at CABSAT in Dubai on 8 10 March 2016.The Exterity enterprise IP video portfolio enables ...
Al Futtaim Technologies has built a state-of-the-art HD studio for the American University of Sharjah. BroadcastPro ME has the detailsLast month, the American University of Sharjah unveiled a new studio ...
Furious 7 on OSN.Close on the heels of its deals with BBC First and Warner Bros., OSN has signed a new and extended long-term deal with ...
Picture Shows: (L-R) Dolokhov (TOM BURKE), Anatole Kuragin (CALLUM TURNER), Anna Pavlovna (GILLIAN ANDERSON), Prince Vassily Kuragin (STEPHEN REA), Helene Kuragin (TUPPENCE MIDDLETON), Pierre Bezukhov (PAUL ...
From left: Giorgio Stock, President of Turner EMEA and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Chairman and CEO of beIN Media Group.Last week, beIN Media Group announced an exclusive deal with ...
Tape is almost obsolete and the move to tapeless workflows is urgent and compelling in today's fast-changing broadcast ecosystem Technology in the broadcast industry is undergoing a transformation in a number ...
Rani R. Raad is Managing Director at Turner for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.BeIN Media Group has announced an exclusive deal with Turner Broadcasting. ...
Christophe Firth.In an exclusive interview with BroadcastPro ME, Christophe Firth, Manager at A.T. Kearney Middle East, speaks about the MENA region's evolving TV trends and the ...
Oprah Winfrey's Belief will air on TLC from January.OSN in collaboration with Discovery Networks, will air Oprah Winfreys new series Belief - a documentary series that ...
Senior executives look at whether the entry of more pay TV operators will make the FTA proposition less lucrative for the stakeholdersImagine you were the CEO of a free-to-air television ...
Ken Tankel is Product Manager at Linear Acoustic.Embracing scalable technology like AoIP will become increasingly critical if organisations want to seamlessly accommodate emerging audio requirements and ...
Italia Film International and beIN Media Group have signed a five-year multi-million dollar content output deal. The deal will enable beIN to acquire more than 600 movie titles.Italia Film International is ...
The 22nd edition of CABSAT will continue to drive disruptive innovation and monetisation opportunities across the MENA filmed & audio entertainment media market.Running from March 8 to 10 at Dubai ...
CTOs discuss the pain points surrounding the adoption of cloud and IP-based technologies at their facilities and how to address regional challengesThe CTOs discussed the role of cloud and whether ...
Noura Al Kaabi.PopArabia, a music publisher and rights consultancy serving the Middle East, now represents the four major music publishers, having recently secured a deal with ...
Paul Wallis, Director of Sales, Middle East, Imagine Communications.The IT industry is massive compared with the broadcast industry broadcasters would be foolish not to take ...
The ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision conference brought together more than 290 attendees to discuss some of the core issues impacting the region's broadcast industryThe 2015 ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision Summit and Awards ...
A new deal with La Liga will enable beIN to offer exclusive access to eight matches every match day, one of which will always be either Real Madrid or FC ...
Baselight at Arab Telemedia.Emmy Award winning production company Arab Telemedia Group has added an integrated Baselight colour pipeline to its production and post workflows. The new ...
BeIN Media Group has inked a five-year first-run output deal with Middle East film distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment. The deal follows beINs recent announcement to expand its offering of paid ...
Twofour54 and O3 Productions have inked a three year deal that will secure an additional 300 production days a year to Abu Dhabi and see more Arabic dramas being made ...
Sanjay Salil, Managing Director, MediaGuru.This report, jointly undertaken by MediaGuru and Arab Advisors Group, analyses the state of convergence between media, gadgets and telecom in the ...
Ahmed Shanti.Avid has appointed Ahmed Shanti to the role of Territory Account Manager for Middle East. Shantis responsibilities are to increase Avids market share in the region ...
The Dubai Film Market (DFM) and International Showbiz Expo (ISBE) 2015 are coming together at DIFF 2015 from 14 16th December at the Madinat Jumeirah.ISBE brings together cinema and ...
From left: Galal El Hakeem and Mohammed Akhlaq.Al Ghad Al Arabi went on air on October 20 this year after implementation consultants Galal El Hakeem and ...
ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision Award winners.The 2015 edition of the ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision Summit and Awards took place on November 10 at Habtoor Grand in Dubai. The full-day ...
Nasser Al Khelaifi, Chairman and CEO of beIN Media Group.BeIN Sports has won the rights to broadcast The Premier League in the Middle East and North ...
Arabsat customers had a taste of the satellite operators hospitality at the eighth annual broadcasting forum, Atheer, in Marrakech last month. The event brought together key figures from the MENA ...
In a roundtable hosted by BroadcastPro ME and SAM, regional broadcasters discussed the pros and cons of IP-based systems and how the new technology will steer the broadcast industry forwardBroadcast ...
BroadcastPro ME has announced the shortlist for the ASBU BroadcastPro Selevision Summit and Awards. The event takes place on November 10 at Habtoor Grand Hotel in Dubai Marina. The full ...
Nasser Al Khelaifi, Chairman and CEO of beIN Media Group.BeIN has announced expansion of its pay TV platform through launch of movies and entertainment channels. A ...
Michael Earl Javier, Project Engineer at VSN, Dubai.The world of TV and broadcasting has changed dramatically in the last five years. The main cause of this ...
IBC2015 had a large footfall, with more than 55,000 visitors. The conference included key topics impacting the broadcast industry, ranging from ultra HD and the adoption of IP to the popularity of online ...
On location for Ali Mostafa's Worthy.Image Nation Abu Dhabi has wrapped production on its latest Emirati feature film, Worthy. Directed by Ali Mostafa, the action thriller ...
