On witnessing remote production and more
It is strange to speak of meeting a living legend in the same breath as witnessing live tennis action captured via a remote production hub somewhere in Melbourne. Yet in ...
It is strange to speak of meeting a living legend in the same breath as witnessing live tennis action captured via a remote production hub somewhere in Melbourne. Yet in ...
African reel success since the early 2000s has been the story of its most populous country, Nigeria. At a recent panel on African filmmaking, hosted by Canon at its CABSAT ...
How much do we know about Africa, and more specifically African movies or TV? Perhaps we do have some visibility to content from Egypt and Morocco maybe also Algeria. ...
The survival of the MENA media industry is at stake with the impending arrival of FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google)! Are we ready?This was the key takeaway from ...
Microservices metadata harvesting blockchain artificial intelligence machine learning these are the terms I have heard discussed more prominently in the last few months, and I ...
I was really impressed with the MBC facility at Dubai Studio City, which I had the pleasure of visiting last month. Over the years, I have visited several TV centres, ...
Last month, BroadcastPro ME was delighted to join several industry leaders for the inaugural edition of the Al Jazeera Leaders Summit.Al Jazeera Media Network has been known for thinking out ...
The 12-camera OB van will be stationed in Riyadh to service clients in the Kingdom.Dubai-based 7 Production will open its first office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...
Nart Bouran, CEO of SNA (extreme right) in Cairo announces a series of initiatives to celebrate the network's fifth anniversary.Sky News Arabia (SNA) has planned a ...
Dubai-based English language channel City 7 TV, which has been operational since 2004, has finally succumbed to the pressures of the economic downturn and stopped broadcasting on April 20 at midnight, ...
The growth of cloud and industrialised services, and the decline of traditional data centre outsourcing (DCO) indicate a massive shift toward hybrid infrastructure services, according to Gartner, Inc.In a report ...
From left: Mohammed Shehata and Ramy Gamal of Systems Design with Samir Isbaih of Pebble Beach Systems and Khaled Raouf, Chairman - Technology at K.A.R. Inc.Saudi ...
Al Jazeera Media Network has announced the launch of an experimental platform called Kimchi for digital radio. The platform, which AJMN claims is a first of its kind, consists of ...
Twofour54 has deployed a Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage System and Spectra T120 Tape Library, coupled with Avid Interplay Archive Software, to meet the companys digital archiving needs. Spectra Logics T120 with ...
The Forsaty campaign jury.Unilever has launched a campaign in partnership with YouTube to discover the next female vlogging star in the GCC region.The two-month campaign, called ...
Jordans state radio broadcaster, JRTV Corp., will revamp its existing radio automation and broadcast installations with NETIA Radio Assist 8. NETIA will provide the organisation with state-of-the-art production, scheduling, workflow ...
MBC Group has signed a joint venture agreement with HSE24 to establish a home shopping company in the GCC.The HSE24 Group is an international omnichannel home shopping company, which operates ...
Telestream has announced its agreement to acquire IneoQuest, a major leader in video quality monitoring and analytics solutions for content distribution across managed and unmanaged networks. Founded in 2001, IneoQuest ...
Majed Suwaidi, Managing Director of Dubai Media City.Dubai Media City partnered with Dubai Lynx to enable the sustained growth of the regions thriving media and creative ...
Paul Wallis is MD of Deluxe Middle East and Senior VP of Deluxe Media Cloud.Following our Twitter announcement a couple of weeks ago, BroadcastPro Middle East can ...
Rotana has launched three television channels for the Indonesian market including a religious channel, a general entertainment channel and one for Arabic movies. The launch coincided with Saudi King, Salman ...
State broadcaster, Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU), has chosen GatesAirs FM radio transmission technology, including its Flexiva transmitter, its Intraplex intelligent IP networking, and Single Frequency Network (SFN) solutions ...
Paul Baker, who was executive director of twofour54 since 2012, is leaving the Abu Dhabi-based entity to return to the UK, BroadcastPro ME can reveal.Speaking about his departure to BroadcastPro, ...
Mukund Cairae, CEO Middle East and APAC, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.Zee Entertainment will launch a new channel in Vietnam on March 6, BroadcastPro Middle East can ...
I thought it was going to be a quiet year, judging by the slowdown in December 2016, but every morning of 2017 thus far, no sweet call to prayer has ...
From left: Adam Lewis, CEO of Voddler with Marwan Shehab, who will head Voddler's MEA operations from Dubai.Cloud-streaming service provider Voddler Group has opened a new ...
Mohamed Abuagla.Avid and Al Jazeera are collaborating to develop and test cloud-based technology deployments of the end-to-end Avid newsroom solution with the aim of building the ...
What New Year resolutions have you made this year? Have you decided to rid your company of all the legacy systems that are preventing progress? Have you decided it's time ...
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has partnered with Twitter this year to host a number of activities on the social media platform.The festivals gala opening will be streamed through Periscope, Twitters ...
Kalle Hvidt Nielsen will lead the company from September 1, 2016.DPA Microphones has announced that Kalle Hvidt Nielsen will become the company's new CEO from September ...
Last month, we were travelling again. While one of us went to Singapore to attend BroadcastAsia, the other met with the Discovery team in France during the French Open to ...
Christian Leicher.Rohde and Schwarz has announced that as of July 1, 2016, Christian Leicher has been appointed President and CEO of the company. Leicher has been a ...
Eutelsat Communications has announced that it has reviewed its strategic priorities and financial objectives in light of the slowdown in the Fixed Satellite Services sector and will take two major ...
Keith Bedford is MD of EBS.EBS, a major full-service provider of EPG data for platforms and channels worldwide, has been contracted by ITV Choice to supply ...
Vice Media, a millennialfocused media entity known for its bold reportage, has ramped up its global expansion plans with several content and distribution deals across Asia, Africa and the Middle ...
End users will soon be able to use the YouTube app to live stream events from their mobile phones, according to a global announcement made by the Google-owned web site ...
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 ...
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 ...
The crew on location in Abu Dhabi.The cast and crew of Dishoom arrived in Abu Dhabi last week to begin a 40-day shoot for the Bollywood film.Dishoom will be ...
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, ...
Nart Bouran is CEO of Sky News Arabia.Hot on the heels of last weeks announcement that Al Jazeera America will be shut down in April 2016, ...
Al Jazeera America (AJAM) will terminate its cable TV and digital operations by April 30 of this year, owing to a business model is simply not sustainable in light ...
Video-on-demand service provider, Vuclip, has announced that it will feature new and exclusive material from upcoming Bollywood blockbuster Dilwale, on its service for Middle East viewers. The exclusive content comes from partnering with ...
H.E. Noura Al Kaabi, twofour54 CEO and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority and H. E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak with the Stormtroopers.Six Stormtroopers ...
Last month was super busy with the Summit and Awards so Im so grateful that the Christmas season is almost upon us and I have no complaints at all about ...
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 ...
Deepa Mehta.The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced its panel of judges for this year. Renowned film industry professionals will make up the jury for ...