Horse racing fans across the Middle East and North Africa can now watch Dubai Racing Channel in high definition.This development follows an agreement between Dubai Media Inc. (DMI) to broadcast ...
Broadcast and digital media professionals from the Middle East, North Africa and beyond are making their way to CABSAT 2013, which opens tomorrow, Tuesday 12th March at Dubai World Trade ...
Shaan Jethwani, Executive Director, EUROSTAR Group.EUROSTAR Group has announced new strategic partnerships with a number of global players including Forsway Scandinavia AB, the Swedish pioneer in ...
Dipesh Makwana has been appointed Technical Sales Manager at Snell's newly launched Middle East office.Snell has announced the launch of a new sales office in the ...
Time Warners board has agreed to a complete legal and structural separation from Time Inc in order to operate as an independent, publicly-traded company.After the proposed separation is completed, expected ...
Sam Barnett, CEO MBC Group (left) & Cliff Nelson CEO My-HD (right) during the signing.Kids entertainment TV channel, MBC3 will be available in HD from March ...
The Sky News Arabia Programme (SNAP) is conducting a series of journalism workshops for UAE university students to foster talent for the local media industry. Now, in its second year, ...
Produced by 3Line Media in association with twofour54, and Blink Studios, Driver Dans Story Train is a children's CGI-animated (Computer Generated Imagery) story series about a loveable train driving lion.The ...
YahLive, the High Definition television satellite broadcast platform and Home of HD for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has expanded its distribution network of YahLive certified satellite ...
The NAB Show will hold a new Radio Frequency Boot Camp as part of the Broadcast Engineering Conference in Las Vegas. The day-long training programme presented by NAB Labs will ...
Renowned broadcast television journalist for CBS, Bob Schieffer will receive the NAB Distinguished Service Award (DSA) during the 2013 NAB Show. Schieffer will accept the award at the opening keynote ...
A scene from Lost Christmas.Hyde Park Image Nation won an International Emmy Kids Award for its co-production Lost Christmas earlier this month. The programme, which aired ...
The key to the success of any OTT service is the quality of delivery, says Antonin Král of nangu.tvTheres no doubt that smart phones and tablets have provided a major ...
Cliff Nelson, CEO of My-HD Media.My-HD, a secure, independent, affordable television platform that offers a single viewing card solution for High Definition (HD) channels in the ...
One of the challenges for the modern broadcaster is to achieve operational flexibility, to allow technical and creative teams to co-operate in new ways. This might be direct working between ...
Christopher O'Hearn.Where were you on the night of March 24, 2012 just after midnight?If you were looking for an alibi youd have a good one ...
Jim Berk and Abdulziz Al-Khater.Doha Film Institute (DFI) and Participant Media, known for films as An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., The Help, The Best Exotic Marigold ...
Jamal Al Sharif.Dubai Film & TV Commission (DFTC) has confirmed its support of the IMAX Film Festival, debuting at the Meydan IMAX Theatre on Friday 15th ...
London based broadcast specialist Vision247 has acquired Fora, a Slovenian IPTV software solutions company in a deal valued at more than 2 million. The acquisition expands Vision247s role as a ...
CABSAT 2013, the leading digital media event in the region, and third largest on the global calendar, is poised to drive the debate on digital television with an extensive and ...
Thomson Broadcast will showcase its newest high-power FUTHURA Green Power TV Transmitter Family for drastic energy savings and long- term reliability at CABSAT2013. The GreenPower solutions include a comprehensive range ...
Tim Felstead is the newly appointed Head of Sales and Marketing at ATG Broadcast.UK-based broadcast systems integrator ATG Broadcast has appointed Tim Felstead as Head of ...
Intigral has developed "Dawri Plus", an interactive digital platform that will enable viewers to watch Saudi League Seasons (2012 2013 2014) across all digital platforms. The software was developed ...
DAMAMAX, a subsidiary of DAMA Ventures and one of the largest backbone operators in Jordan providing broadband solutions through optical fiber, has signed an agreement with Arabic News Broadcast Television ...
The fund is aimed at encouraging more Arabic content for feature-length films.Miranda Technologies has acquired UK-based subtitling and captioning expert Softel. Integration planning will be led ...
ARABSAT has finalised the mission definition for BADR-7 and confirmed the in-orbit delivery contract to the consortium of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space which has already started building the new ...
Trade platform for the broadcast, digital media and satellite sectors across the Middle East, Africa and Southern Asian regions, CABSAT 2013 will take place from March 12-14 at the Dubai ...
Nick Grande, managing director of ChannelSculptor.What happened in 2012?A cursory glance would suggest that 2012 was a year like any other in the MENA television industry.By ...
Mohammed Al Marhouby, Director General of Engineering, Public Authority for Radio & TV, OmanIn 2009, when the recession hit the world, all eyes were on the ...
Former speaker Ahmad Al-SaadounA case filed by a privately owned Al Youm television station against information ministry was rejected by the Kuwaiti lower Administrative Court.Al Youm ...
As part of a new deal, GlobeCast will provide YahLive with a 24/7 monitoring and reporting service for its satellite signals (video, audio, and data) across the MENA region. The ...
BEST DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION IN ARABICABDALLAH EL BINNI, AL JAZEERA NETWORKAbdallah El Binni, Al Jazeera NetworkAbdallah El Binni is an investigative journalist who has produced and directed ...
Ofcom has imposed a financial penalty of £25,000 on Al Mustakillah Television Limited for unduly promoting a political movement in Tunisia. Al Mustakillah is a news, current affairs and general ...
PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION TO BROADCAST TECHNOLOGYFadi KahhalehFadi Kahhaleh Fadi Kahhaleh (right) is a young Jordanian who works for US media solutions provider ONE MEDIA. Fadi Kahhaleh was ...
Eng. SALEH AL MEGHAILEETHDEPUTY MINISTER OF ENGINEERING AFFAIRS,MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION, SAUDI ARABIAEng. SALEH AL MEGHAILEETHDEPUTY MINISTER OF ENGINEERING AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION, ...
MENA SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDTVSDC/QATAR TVTVSDC/ Qatar TVThe multi-million dollar investment undertaken across the board by Qatars Television Support Development Committee (TVSDC) to build new facilities ...
The panelistsNick Grande, Managing Director of ChannelSculptor, who moderated this panel discussion, summed it up for BroadcastPro METhis years CEO panel had the distinction that all ...
The Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdul Aziz Khoja issued a statement that: "Saudi Arabia will shut down satellite television channels that threaten national unity or instigate sedition in ...
TV network Rotana, held a key meeting in Riyadh where board members reviewed and discussed the strategic plans for 2013.Also a media company among other holdings, Rotana is a producer ...
Ever since the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule erupted in March last year, at least 17 journalists and 44 citizen journalists had been killed in violence according to ...
Private television station Al-Youm, which backs the opposition, has been closed by the Kuwaiti government for allegedly failing to meet administrative conditions.As quoted by the official KUNA news agency, the ...
Christopher OHearnHow do you wrestle a 300lb gorilla? Thats the question many people in this market have to ask when trying to make headway against the ...
At the Dubai TV and Film Commission launch.Following an inaugural board meeting in May, the Dubai Film and TV Commission (DFTC) officially launched today to promote ...
The film releases today 13 December across cinemas in the UAEFor his latest film The Hobbit-An Unexpected Journey, Jackson is being very avant-garde. When currently films ...
With the view of offering video content specifically tailored for Arabic audiences on multiple screens, the application Fatooosh was recently launched.The application is available only in Arabic and enables users ...
On 10th December, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will be dedicating an entire day of the Dubai Film Forum to broadcasting. The sessions will focus on content platforms, distribution ...
In a move to liberalise the audio-visual sector, Algerian Communications Minister Mohand Said held a press conference at a media industry seminar in Algiers recently. Though the law is not ...
Jordan and China have signed an agreement of cooperation between the Jordan Radio and Television Corporation (JRTV) and the China Television Corporation (CTV).Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications, ...
Volicon Observer at AVC of JordanThe Audio Visual Commission (AVC) of Jordan has deployed Volicons Observer digital video monitoring and logging system to ensure that radio ...
Joel Ledlow, CEO, ScheduALLBroadcast networks can reduce the costs and challenges related to broadcasting live sport if they have an appropriate Enterprise Resource Management softwareAl Jazeeras ...
Sarah Messer, Nielsens new director of media for MENAPGalvanised by political and social change, the Middle Easts media landscape is witnessing unprecedented developments driven, in part, ...
a still from M.I. HighFree to air Al Jazeera Childrens Channel (JCC) has recently enhanced its partnership with BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. ...
Christopher OHearn, GM of Emirates Media Measurement CompanyIs television in this region a charity?Thats how one producer at the recent Abu Dhabi Media Summit said he ...
Mike Kenna, Sales DirectorOASYS, IT-based automated playout solutions developer, has appointed Mike Kenna as Sales Director for EMEA to oversee commercial operations in the region. As ...
ViewSat, based in the UK and specialising in delivering television and radio to sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Middle East, has expanded its channels. PlayBox has supplied two playout ...
From comedy and fashion to documentaries, film, childrens, music, news, business, life style, and cultural broadcasting ArabiaOne brings 13 channels of live 24/7 Arabic culture and entertainment to Freeview enabled televisions ...
CEO twofour54, Noura Al KaabiYou play so many different roles within the media. How do you juggle all of them and do they complement each other?Noura: ...
Dreamworks, US-based CGI animation studio is looking to launch a childrens channel internationally and will collaborate with Fox on this global roll out.The company, run by chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, ...
Parviz Alaei, broadcast manager of GEM GroupGEM Sports and Vision247 worked together to break down the walls of Iranian censorship during the 2012 Olympics. We at ...
Yusuf Thakur, FilmmakerPatience, passion and perseverance are the qualities required to venture into the world of natural history and wildlife filmmaking. Broadcast Pro met with Yusuf ...
