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Video News Agency creates VNRs for Mines Advisory Group
Online news distribution platform Video News Agency has worked with the Mines Advisory Group to create an embeddable, downloadable Video News Release in the lead up to November’s global convention on cluster bombs (8 th -12 th November 2010).
On-line journalists will be...
SM2 & RRsat lead the way in MPEG-4 sports broadcasting
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd, a leading provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, is working with Sm2 Sports Media Solutions, LLC, and...
AP to form news organisation to license digital content
The Associated Press is to oversee the creation of an organisation to help newspapers and broadcasters generate funds as more and more people get their news from mobile phones and other wireless devices.
The ambitious project announced yesterday by AP’s CEO, Tom Curley, at a...
New free digital news distribution service for broadcasters goes live
Video News Agency launched to meet media’s demand for quality video content/EPKs
Video News Agency (VNA) is a new online service for broadcasters, journalists and web editors which provides free-to-use, downloadable video news content for the media.
Broadcasters and news agencies...
BCE received three awards at the Art&Tur Festival in Portugal
BCE received three awards for the short film “Is it true what they say about Luxembourg?”
The film project is based on the use of Luxembourg’s prejudices to describe the real story about the country. The project presents Luxembourg through 10 short films ranging from...
GlobeCast invests in MPEG4 solution for HD delivery of the English Premier League
GlobeCast renews contract with IMG and installs fiber link for delivery of live football matches
GlobeCast has renewed and expanded its contract with IMG Sports Media Production, a division of global sports and media company IMG Worldwide, in a three year deal to provide HD coverage of up to...
AP Archive signs exclusive deal with Democratic Voice of Burma for archival video footage in Burma
The Associated Press announced today that AP Archive has reached an agreement with Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an independent, nonprofit Burmese media organization, to license DVB’s video coverage to third parties around the world. With this agreement, AP Archive is the only...
RRsat Global Communications Network Intensifies its Focus on North American Market
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. a leading provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, has announced that it has expanded the responsibilities of Eric Larsen, recently hired as Senior Director of Sales...
Arqiva Signs U.S. Teleport Deal
Arqiva has signed a co-location agreement with major US West Coast Teleport operator USEI. This will enable USEI to access Arqiva's Occasional Use infrastructure to onpass UK downlinks and uplinks to their facilities in the USA and Japan.
Jon Kirchner, Executive Vice President at Arqiva...
FT ramps up video output with new TV studio
The Financial Times is to significantly increase the amount of video news it carries on its website after unveiling new TV studios at its London headquarters.
The new facility comprises a studio with four remote-control cameras and a state-of-the-art editing suite which will help the...
BCE is technical partner to the Winner of the IBC2010 Innovation Award for content management
BCE and Front Porch Digital proudly announce that the European Parliament’s Audiovisual Unit won the IBC2010 Award for content management for their digitization infrastructure and its public access.
The finalists in the content management category were the multi-platform newsroom at...
AP & VISLINK enhance reliability of file-based news workflow in the field
The Associated Press and VISLINK News & Entertainment announced the successful completion of trials of ENPS working seamlessly across VISLINK’s microwave and Advanced Gateway systems. Together they provide an integrated solution, which enables file-based workflow from the field...
TVNZ's ONE News takes top award
ONE News has won the Qantas Award for Best News for the third year in a row.
The hat-trick is thought to be the first one in NZ television media awards history.
"We're absolutely rapt. We strive to bring our viewers journalism excellence every day and winning Best News three times...
Globecast offers media asset management services to broadcasters, content creators
GlobeCast has reached agreements with several post-production and digital media service companies in America, Asia and Europe that will allow its existing and future clients to connect the post-production aspect of their workflows with the company’s Media Asset Management and delivery...
Freedom of press in Iraq comes at terrible cost
In Iraq, 230 media workers have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003, Reporters Without Borders say. Since their report came out on Tuesday, two more journalists have been murdered.
The figure includes a number of foreign reporters, but the overwhelming majority of...
Iraqi journalist shot dead in Baghdad
At least six Iraqis were killed Tuesday, including a journalist for al-Iraqiya State TV who was shot dead in western Baghdad,
authorities said.
Riyad al-Saray -- an anchor and a reporter -- was killed as he was leaving his home in the Harthiya neighborhood, an Interior Ministry official...
ITN launches Dubai bureau
The British broadcaster ITN will explore forming commercial agreements with Middle East TV operators following the launch of its news bureau in Dubai Media City later this week.
ITV News says the two-man bureau will cater for the strong demand for news about the UAE in Britain, as well as...
Sackings and strike threats at France 24
When launched four years ago France 24 was billed as a "CNN à la française": a television news channel that would counter the influence of Anglo Saxon media and make the voice of France heard around the world.
In recent days, however, that voice has sounded rather...
SIS LIVE upgrades OB coverage of Formula 1 for BBC sport
OB and uplink specialist SIS LIVE designs and builds £2m HD flyaway kit and OB truck to capture race-weekend footage.
SIS LIVE, Europe’s largest outside broadcast (OB) and uplink supplier, has upgraded the technical facilities for BBC Sport’s
coverage of Formula 1...
Joint EBU-OCEAN workshop on Internet Content Delivery
Joint EBU-OCEAN workshop on Internet Content Delivery
EBU TECHNICAL and OCEAN are organizing a joint workshop on Internet Content Delivery at EBU headquarters on 7 September for radio, television and new media managers, Broadcast engineers, New media experts and IT...
Unions gather to discuss safety of journalists working in Africa
Measures to improve the safety of journalists working in African countries will be discussed next week at a workshop involving more than 35 unions, including the NUJ.
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Jailed Journalist Sues Telecoms Company For Supplying Wiretap Tech
The son of an Iranian journalist is suing Nokia Siemens Networks, saying the company bears some responsibility for selling the Iranian government equipment that allowed it to monitor dissidents, arrest and torture them.
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Tower Live TV joins TVZ to promote its broadcast facilities
Based in Dubai Media City, Tower Live TV provides Outside Broadcasting Units, Satellite News Gathering and other broadcasting services to clients locally and globally.
Full details of facilities:
High Definition Satellite News Gathering Van wanted
The HDTV SNG will be used for the uplink/down link of television feeds from Cyprus to the Eutelsat satellites covering Europe and HellasSat II. The HDTV SNG shall be Eutelsat approved.
Further Details of the tender:
Broadcast equipment tender from RTE
RTE is seeking proposals for the supply of a HD playout facility for RTE Television.
Raidio Teliifis Eireann
Purchasing Department, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.
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London 2012 Olympics media centre revealed
Thousands of international journalists coming to London to cover the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are to be housed in the centre of the city, Mayor Boris Johnson has announced.
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South African journalists condemn efforts to silence them
The South African president, Jacob Zuma, has not escaped the scrutinty of the country's press but new laws will limit the work of the media.
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Workers start rebuilding Chinese TV tower
Workers on Wednesday started to rebuild a tower in China's new state television complex in Beijing, 18 months after the building was gutted by fire, state media said.
Much of the north tower of the new CCTV headquarters will be stripped of everything but its main structure, which was not...
Arqiva provides HD distribution of Open Golf for IMG
Arqiva’s HD SNG & OU services provide uplink and satellite capacity for the distribution of IMG’s HD Open Golf coverage to Europe and Asia
Arqiva has provided IMG with HD distribution of their Open Golf coverage. This included an HD SNG truck on site, teleport services and...
Crosspoint joins TVZ to promote its broadcast facilities
Crosspoint specialise in providing broadcasters with Production, Distribution & Transmission facilities for both Sports & Newsgathering events around the Globe. Based in the South of England with easy access to both air and sea-ports
From HD Master Control & Production facilities...
