Pay-TV subscriptions in MEA up by 23.5%
Pay-TV subscriptions across the Middle East and Africa rose by 23.5% from the 15.3 m to 18.9 m between September 2012 and 2013, according to Dataxis.While the Middle East witnessed ...
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Pay-TV subscriptions across the Middle East and Africa rose by 23.5% from the 15.3 m to 18.9 m between September 2012 and 2013, according to Dataxis.While the Middle East witnessed ...
TiVo Inc. has announced that it will acquire Digitalsmiths, a cloud-based content discovery and recommendation service. Digitalsmiths offers personalised video search, recommendations and browsing, social trending, and mood-based discovery which ...
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has selected a range of fixtures from LED lighting pioneer Litepanels, for its new studios in the companys Ankara headquarters.The two studios, home to ...
OSN has announced the launch of two new channels from the Filipino network ABS-CBN.The partnership highlights the efforts of both OSN and ABS-CBN to provide Filipino viewers with the ultimate ...
Al Jazeera has launched a new Turkish online service ahead of a full television channel launch from Istanbul. The service, known as Al Jazeera Türk, will follow its initial digital ...
Fujifilm FinePix S9500.To celebrate the 80th anniversary of its original founding, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation has created on a new corporate slogan, Value from Innovation. Beginning this ...
Icon Art Production supplies production equipment for films, commercials and television production.Dubai-based production and rental house, Icon Art Production (IAP), has upgraded its equipment by adding ...
Egypts national broadcaster ERTU replaced its existing radio infrastructure with a state-of-the-art solution encompassing automation and archiving. In an exclusive interview with Vibhuti Arora, systems supplier and integrator SCISYS shares ...
OSN Pehla has expanded its service with the addition of two more South Asian channels to its existing bouquet. Pakistans Geo News and Indias family comedy channel Sab TV have ...
Twofour54 has joined Tview, the first of its kind television audience measurement system in the Arab World. The agreement with tview aims to improve the level of accuracy of TV ...
LED lighting continues to prove its popularity and effectiveness in filmmaking, broadcasting environments and television production. The wider adoption of LED lighting in production will continue to evolve due to ...
Physique TV will premiere its first in-house production in Arabic titled MMA All Out. We are very excited to be adding MMA All Out as a daily complement to our diverse ...
Oromia TV building.Ethiopia-based Oromia Radio and Television Organisation (ORTO) has selected Avid to power its content creation workflow, distribution and media management. As the official broadcaster ...
The sixth edition of Documentary Voices hosted workshops and sessions by renowned industry professionals under the theme Children and Cinema. American documentary filmmaker and Harvard Professor Ross McEwlee, acclaimed New York ...
As a special Christmas gift to our customers BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH now offers a professional training program even online.The spectrum of the training offer covers the area ...
The FIAT/IFTA world conference held for the first time in Dubai brought together a community of archivists and broadcasters from 40 different countries around the world. A report[caption id="attachment_20218" align="alignleft" ...
Said Bacho, Senior Vice President of EMEA, Grass Valley.WRN Broadcast, the UK-based global managed services company, has installed Grass Valleys GV Edge integrated playout system with ...
The IWC Filmmaker Award went to Waleed Al Shehhi for his film Dolphins. The award was presented by Academy Award winner and IWC Friend of the Brand Cate Blanchett on ...
OTT in the Middle East offers a unique opportunity for broadcasters, who need to understand that a modular approach to these solutions is the way forwardNot so long ago, we ...
Noura Al Kaabi, CEO of Twofour54.Twofour54s creative lab is involved in a total of ten films, which are being screened at DIFF 2013, five of which ...
Grass Valley has deployed its first set of GV STRATUS non-linear media production tools to the Hong Kong region at OneTV, a new 24/7 television station that delivers news, sports, ...
Sky News Arabia and FP7 MENA were awarded a silver Effie for their joint work on the 24-hour Arabic news channels Now and From Everywhere campaign at the 2013 GEMAS ...
From left: Wayne Borg, President International and Chief Commercial Officer at twofour54; Abdul Hadi Al Sheikh, Executive Director of Digital Media Services at Abu Dhabi Media; ...
Sweden-based Voddler will build a global service for streaming of Zees content. The new over-the-top (OTT) service will be branded and marketed by Zee globally, with India, USA and Indonesia ...
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair (l) of Mashreq with Faisal Al Ayyar (r), Chairman of OSN.OSN has successfully closed its first syndicated five-year financing facility for US$200 ...
Mid-year, ING-DiBa moved to its new headquarters in Theodor-Heuss-Allee 2, in Frankfurt and has chosen BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH to replace the media technology.All 63 rooms, which are ...
OASYS Automated Playout has been chosen to provide an automated playout solution for Physique TV, MENAs first 24 hour HD television channel dedicated to fitness, healthy living, nutrition and action ...
More than 280 attendees from the MENA broadcast industry gathered together for the ASBU BroadcastPro Summit, which was held at The Address Dubai Marina on November 12. ...
Peyman and Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi won BroadcastProOutstanding Social Media Project of the year.Intaj, the film and television services arm of twofour54, and two of its ...
The judges were impressed with the level of innovation and quality of the entries. The awards will be given away in 12 categories in all with four Editors Choice Awards.The ...
Harris Broadcast and Broadcast Partners have completed the Netherlands transition to all digital radio. Harris Broadcast and Broadcast Partners deployed the nationwide digital audio broadcasting plus (DAB+) solution in a ...
UAEs television audience measurement system, tview announced the first annual TV audience results last month based on the people meter system. The representative sample used in this report was gross ...
Mohammed Akhlaq.In an exclusive interview with Vijaya Cherian, Mohammed Akhlaq, International Operations Director of Al Jazeera Network and Launch Technical Director of Al Jazeera America, speaks ...
Sony PMW-300.Paul Mongey puts the new SONY PMW-300 XDcam through its pacesThe new Sony PMW-300 XDcam camcorder replaces Sonys PMW-EX3. It is essentially a semi-shoulder mount ...
Left to right: Jamal Sannan, CEO, Eagle Films with David Butorac, CEO of OSN.OSN has signed a multi-year deal with Eagle Films, a motion pictures distributor ...
Etihad Airways is set to introduce eight live television channels which will broadcast live news and sport, including Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Formula ...
From Oct 25 to 28, 2013, Jürgen Loos, Sales Director at BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH, participated in the 24. FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) World Conference in ...
Sanjay Salil (l) and Michel Merten.MediaGuru, a global media services company has signed an agreement with Brussels-based archiving specialist Memnon to form a joint venture company ...
The FIAT IFTA World Conference welcomed dignitaries and broadcast professionals to its Save your Archive programme being held in Dubai. Hosted by Al Arabiya News Channel, the three-day conference is ...
Unauthorised platforms like Dish TV eat into the share of legitimate Middle East channels broadcasting on approved platforms, thereby undermining their programming and commercial activity. Its a serious issue that ...
DIFF will award the prestigious DIFF Lifetime Achievement Award this year to multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Martin Sheen, one of America's most distinguished actors.Martin Sheen is arguably one ...
Fourth from left Farhan Akhtar with members of the newly formed Excel Media.Excel Entertainment, an Indian film production house, has formed a joint venture with the ...
OKNO-TV (UK), a broadcast systems integrator, has acquired UK-based systems integrator and mobile broadcast production specialist Megahertz Broadcast Systems.The deal will extend OKNO-TVs portfolio to include mobile production vehicles, live ...
Hundreds of fans thronged to meet world-renowned wrestlers Big Show and Dolph Ziggler, at the OSN WWE Family Zone, in Marina Mall, Abu Dhabi.At the dedicated OSN WWE Family Fun ...
Noura Al Kaabi speaking at the MIPCOM power lunch.H.E. Noura Al Kaabi, CEO of twofour54, contributed to an inspiring panel discussion at the Women in Global ...
Shotoku Broadcast Systems has been awarded a tender from Turkish Radio Television (TRT) for a significant complement of manual camera support gear. Working through Istanbul-based Basari, TRT placed an order comprised ...
OSN has extended its landmark deal with The Walt Disney Company to be the exclusive subscription TV service in the region for first-run Disney movies, ABC Studios series and Turkish ...
The fourth Abu Dhabi Media Summit will be held under the patronage of H.H. General Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander ...
Fatiha Bensalem, E-junior and Khaled Al Baloushi, eLife.Childrens edutainment channel E-junior marked its 12th anniversary this year with a complete transition to High Definition (HD) coupled ...
Matthew Sansom, Head of Station, Abu Dhabi Classic FM.Matthew Sansom, Head of Station at Abu Dhabi Classic FM describes the UAE as a unique market for ...
Panasonic Corporation will be presented with a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for 2013 by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The honour is being conferred upon Panasonic ...
Immortals - starring Henry Cavill.Film market Relativity has extended its Middle East distribution partnership with Gulf Film, a major film distributor and exhibitor in the region. ...
As part of its Film Lab Series, Doha Film Institute has launched two new programmes, the Professional Hezayah Lab for Storytelling and a Professional Directing Workshop for Qatari filmmakers.The workshops ...
OSNs exclusive primetime shows scooped accolades at the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.Broadcast live to subscribers on OSN First HD to audiences across the MENA region, the Awards felicitated some ...
ViewSat 9m antenna.ViewSat, a global provider of broadcast and transmission services for television and radio channels, has announced the launch of its second MENA satellite transponder ...
Even in a so-called "off year" like 2013, with a meagre number of major events, and a number of disruptive conditions, sports saw substantial growthAnother sports video research edition has ...
THE MCR at Amahara TV station.Ethiopias state broadcaster Amhara TV recently deployed the countrys first HD terrestrial TV station broadcasting to more than 50 million viewers. ...
OSN Play will now allow subscribers to watch their content on smartphones with 3G and 4G capabilities. Piksel has successfully developed and delivered a multi-platform extension of the OTT service. This continues ...
Al Sultana, one of Saudi Arabias largest drama productions, is set to make its premiere on OSN Ya Hala HD on September 21, 2013. Featuring some of the Gulfs most ...
Google wants to get its hands on the money that is now going into traditional television, warned a senior advertising executive - and if history is any guide, it has ...
