Major shake-up at Dubai Media Inc.
HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) ordered a number of promotions and appointments of DMI staff ...
HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) ordered a number of promotions and appointments of DMI staff ...
UK-based cable and studio infrastructure solutions provider Argosy’s office in Dubai is now operational, BroadcastPro Middle East has learnt.Mike Purnell, director at Argosy, who was in Dubai recently told BroadcastPro ...
Dubai International Film Festival today confirmed that it will screen 157 films from 57 countries at this year’s edition, which will run from December 12 to 19.Among its roster of ...
BroadcastPro Middle East has learnt that Blackmagic Design will showcase its DaVinci Resolve non-linear colour correction system at a “DaVinci Roadshow” on November 25, 2010 at the Radisson Blue Hotel ...
Shooting at 5,000 feet above sea level in the lush forests of Munnar, a small hill station in the south of India can be a dramatically different and challenging experience ...
Eight years ago, I recall going on location with Emirati filmmaker Nayla Al Khaja as she made her first documentary Unveiling Dubai. Fresh out of University, Al Khaja came to ...
Dubai Studio City has provided several soft incentives to Paramount so as to make Dubai attractive for the filming of Mission Impossible 4, BroadcastPro has learnt.“It’s a big film and ...
The seventh edition of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will showcase the best of Mexican cinema as a tribute to the nation’s bicentennial, DIFF announced today although it did not ...
Lebanese production house and broadcast consultancy firm, Charisma, will begin its Abu Dhabi operations from November 2010. The media firm, which produces more than 1200 hours of television content every ...
A free-to-air, Arabic version of Cartoon Network will be available from October 10 to viewers in the Arab world. The announcement was made by Alan Musa, vice president and general ...
Qatar-based Al Jazeera Network recently awarded one of the most hotly-contested projects in the region to Dubai-based systems integrator Qvest Media FZ LLC. According to the deal, Qvest will put ...
Media-Alliance has completed a station upgrade for Dubai-based broadcaster Intigral, a Saudi Telecom-Astro Malaysia joint venture broadcasting more than 200 international chan-nels as well as VoD services. Intigral’s setup had been ...
Melody House Musical Instruments will be DPA Microphones' new distributor in Dubai. The appointment is part of a rebranding process that will see Melody House move into the pro-audio sector ...
DotCast has launched a 12,000 sq.ft coach building facility in Dubai. The faciility is the first-of-its-kind in the Middle East and claims that it can provide fully-fitted OB vans at ...
Having come from a high-end post production and television background, I have always viewed Adobe Products in the past as toys, and although Photoshop has been integrated into my workflow ...
All of us know how our industry has moved from one of public service to big business. We are also acutely aware of the global trends of declining advertising revenue, ...
Your Excellency, you have often spoken in the past of "opening new vistas for the Saudi media". How do you plan to transform the media scene in KSA?I'm a firm ...
Manufacturers, broadcasters, producers and an ever-increasing band of filmmakers are in agreement that 3D represents an important part of the future of the film and TV industry. But when it ...
Cameras designed for still photography have, in the last year, begun to have a huge impact on the video production market. One of the first in the region to exploit ...
In June 1985, seven men travelled into space on the Discovery STS-G51 space shuttle with a cargo that included American, Mexican and Arabian domestic communications satellites. While the event saw ...
Dubai-based distributor and systems integrator Advanced Media Trading hosted a free workshop last month to showcase the benefits of a tapeless workflow in conjunction with Sony Professional Solutions Middle East. ...
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is home to a large Pakistani expatriate community, channels like CNBC Pakistan and Samaa felt the need to incorporate UAE-based content into their channels. Seeing ...
When Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) was formed last year, the pay TV network expressed its intention to retain its broadcast operations in both Dubai and Bahrain. According to initial plans, ...
Dubai-based distributor United Broadcast and Media Solutions (UBMS) has set a new mile-stone by being the first in the Middle East to become an official corporate member of IABM. "We are ...
In a candid interview with BroadcastPro Middle East, OSN CEO Marc-Antoine dHalluin discusses the impact of shutting down the pay TV networks Bahrain facility and malpractices in the Middle Easts ...
Dubai-based Boomtown Productions recently produced a 30-minute documentary on the camel beauty pageant in the Western region of Abu Dhabi on 16mm. The film, which was meant to be an "artistic ...
Dubai-based systems integrator Qvest Media, who had installed a new tapeless ingest, editing and playout solution for Al Jazeera Sports in Doha, Qatar last year and expanded its playout channels ...
Dynamics processing specialist Junger Audio has ap-pointed Dubai-based distributor and systems integra-tor Qvest Media FZ LLC to handle the distribution of its entire product range in the Middle East. According to ...
What are your plans for CABSAT 2011?For one, we have brought the show forward from March to February in line with requests from exhibitors and visitors. CABSAT will run from ...
Dubai-based production house Alchemy Films, well known for its RED productions, recently took delivery of the UAE’s first RED Mysterium-X sensor. While the learning curve and inability to walk into ...
At the start of June 2010, the UAE's two TV and telecom firms went head-to-head with the launch of their 3D TV services, with Etisalat and Du both announcing on ...
Welcome to the first edition of BroadcastPro Middle East – an issue that I hope will reflect the dynamic changes in the Middle East film and television broadcasting landscape. One ...