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LiveU debuts new truck featuring global IP service during multi-city US tour
Hackensack, NJ, October 2019: News affiliates across the US are making the investment in LiveU’s Global IP Service solutions for their live newsgathering operations. Global IP combines LiveU’s hardware-based HEVC encoding technology with cost-effective IP satellite service to...
Globecast promotes 18-year company veteran Shakunt Malhotra to Managing Director, Asia
Paris, September 2019: Globecast has announced it has promoted 18-year company veteran Shakunt Malhotra to Managing Director, Asia, effective immediately. In his new role, he will spearhead operations across Asia and manage four key areas of focus: teleport services, media management...
C-COM antenna tracks NSLComm's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite
Ottawa, September 2019 : C-COM Satellite Systems, the world’s leading provider of commercial grade auto-acquire mobile satellite antennas, has announced the successful integration of its 74cm Flyaway antenna system with NSLComm’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellite. NSLComm is...
IBC2019: LiveU unveils the first integrated 5G cellular bonding unit for live coverage
Hackensack, NJ, September 2019 : LiveU has announced its new fully compliant 5G LU600 solution for global newsgathering and live sports coverage. With internal 5G modems, and high efficiency antennas covering all sub 6GHz frequencies for 5G and 4G, integrated with LiveU’s...
Globecast and PSSI Global Services announce expanded international media services collaboration
Los Angeles, September 2019 : Globecast has announced it’s partnering with PSSI Global Services, provider of comprehensive event, transmission and connectivity solutions, to enhance media distribution and contribution services for its customers. These include global distribution of...
LiveU and Griiip unveil unique motorsports live viewing and data-driven media solution platform
Hackensack, NJ, September 2019 : LiveU and Griiip have announced an extended partnership, integrating complementary racing series content solutions for broadcasters and streaming services to create a cost-effective, end-to-end video and data platform. The partnership combines LiveU’s...
Globecast partners with Eutelsat for launch of new HOTBIRD platform with Deutsche Welle HD as first customer
Paris, August 2019: Globecast is expanding its partnership with Eutelsat Communications to create a new HOTBIRD platform in order to satisfy the growing move from SD to HD in the market.
Samuel Lemercier, Strategic Projects...
Former Reuters TV journalist set to launch media consultancy service
August 2019: A former Reuters TV journalist is set to launch a new consultancy service aimed at start-up TV channels and digitally-focused newsrooms in emerging and frontier markets.
Glen Felgate, who worked as an editor and...
Two more broadcast services companies promote their facilities on TVZ
Bahrain/UK, July 2019: Gulf Cast, based in Bahrain, offers a variety of services to broadcast companies including live broadcast studios, SNG satellite trucks and ENG crews.
The company has been in business since 2012 and says its team of professionals can offer high-level...
Broadcast services company, Alice, promotes its major studio in Barcelona
Barcelona, July 2019: Alice, the international broadcast division of the Lavinia Group, is promoting its live broadcast studio in the heart of Barcelona. The facilities have multi-use sets, chroma sets and fully equipped production MCRs.
The company says, "It is an optimal...
Globecast brings the Total Africa Cup of Nations to the world in 4K
Paris, July 2019: Globecast is extending its relationship with the organisers and rights holders of the Total Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, bringing the 2019 event to the world. The tournament began on June 21st with the final taking place on July 19th....
LiveU Matrix gives broadcasters free access to NASA TV’s Apollo 11 50th Anniversary live feed
Hackensack, NJ, July 2019 : On Friday, July 19th, NASA TV will broadcast “NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future – Celebrating Apollo 50th as we Go Forward to the Moon,” a live special highlighting the most-celebrated mission to the moon. Broadcasters will have the...
International sport owners and organisers A.S.O. to use Globecast’s Digital Media Hub for content sharing
Paris, July 2019: Globecast has announced that Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), owners and organisers of multiple globally renowned sports events, has selected Content Marketplace, part of Globecast’s Digital Media Hub, for clipped content sharing.
A.S.O. organises 210...
'Champion of Innovation' retires after 42 years' service at SABC
Johannesburg, July 2019: SABC is paying tribute to one of its employees who's played a key role over several decades in introducing and implementing new technology at the state broadcaster.
Peter Knevitt joined the company...
Globecast introduces Virtual Networking for high bandwidth IP-over-satellite connectivity for the enterprise market
Los Angeles, CA, June 2019 : Globecast has announced Globecast Virtual Networking (GCVN), a new service offering that brings two-way, high bandwidth, IP-over-satellite connectivity to the enterprise market. It provides fast, reliable IP connectivity anywhere and anytime where terrestrial...
TV18 Broadcast India upgrades its newsgathering operations with over 100 LiveU LU600 HEVC units
Hackensack, NJ, June 2019 : TV18 Broadcast Ltd., one of India’s most popular television broadcasting networks, has signed a multi-year lease agreement for more than a hundred units of LiveU’s flagship LU600 HEVC solution.
The units are already stationed in various...
Telstra delivers broadcasting milestone at World Relay Championships
Canberra, June 2019 : Telstra has achieved a significant milestone in sports broadcast production with the remote production and delivery of the International World Relay Championships in Japan for Independent Television News (ITN). The event marked the first use of Telstra’s...
Morocco's MAP TV becomes the newest member to join ENEX
Luxembourg, June 2019 : The ENEX partnership is growing again, with a new member joining from Morocco. MAP TV, the newly launched TV channel of Agence Marocaine de Presse (Moroccan News Agency) has set their foot squarely in the ENEX club by representing the strategically important...
Story Productions provides live satellite link-up for Al Kass during Qatari friendly in Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo, Brazil June 2019 : The world’s oldest international football tournament – The Copa América – kicked off on Friday 14th June in São Paulo, in its 46th edition, with Bolivia playing against Brazil in the opening match. This year, besides the South...
TVNZ upgrades newsgathering fleet with LiveU’s HEVC bonded solutions
Hackensack, NJ, June 2019 : New Zealand’s leading free to air broadcaster, TVNZ, is upgrading its fleet of LiveU portable transmission units to LiveU’s LU300 HEVC and LU600 HEVC, ensuring the highest-quality live video performance.
The deal has been overseen by...
Globecast further strengthens contribution and distribution teams
Paris, May 2019: Globecast has further strengthened its distribution and contribution teams. Jack Braybrook has joined the content and distribution team as Account Manager, Distribution, and James Whittaker has joined the contribution team as Business Development Manager OU Sports and...
Prause offers live IP transmissions from across Poland
Katowice, Poland May 2019: Equipped with LiveU IP solutions, Prause is providing clients the means to transmit live from Poland.
New to promoting its services on TVZ, Prause offers a range of LiveU video transmission kit as well...
LiveU announces majority investment from Francisco Partners to accelerate growth
Hackensack, NJ, May 2019 : LiveU, the leader in live IP video solutions, is pleased to announce that Francisco Partners, a global technology-focused private equity firm, together with co-investor IGP Capital, have acquired LiveU from its existing shareholders to accelerate further the...
Facebook group created to assist production companies filming in the Amazon region
Brasilia, May 2019: A production company in Brazil, Illuminati, has set up a Facebook group designed to help others wishing to cover stories about the Amazon.
The company told TVZ: "Illuminati is an audiovisual...
Alice reach partnership agreement with Global Editors Network (GEN)
Brussels, May 2019: Alice, the international broadcast division of the Lavinia Group, has become ‘video and media partner’ for the 2019 GEN Summit, the largest gathering in the world of media, which takes place from June 13 to 15 in Athens. Alice have reached an agreement with...
C-COM granted 2nd patent for phased array antenna
Ottawa, May 2019: C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial grade auto-acquire mobile satellite antenna systems, has announced that it has been granted US patent No.10,211,527 for its invention of a phased array antenna calibration method and...
AT&T and LiveU team up on 5G for live news and sports broadcasts
Dallas, May 2019: Broadcasters, production crews, and sports organizations must deliver breaking news and live events quickly and efficiently. 5G offers the potential to transform behind-the-scenes video operations, expand broadcast production capabilities and deliver the next generation...
CBS Newspath deploys LiveU Matrix Content Management Service across CBS News bureaus and affiliates
Hackensack, NJ, April, 2019 : LiveU and CBS Newspath have reached an agreement on a multi-year deal for LiveU Matrix to handle contribution and delivery of live content to its 200+ affiliates and seven global news bureaus....
Telstra Broadcast Services expands its Global Media Network
Canberra, April 2019: Telstra Broadcast Services has announced the expansion of its Global Media Network (GMN), adding new partners in the Americas and Europe and building its extensive network of partners to thirteen.
Telstra’s GMN is a media contribution and distribution network...
C-COM successfully tracks Kepler Low Earth Orbit satellites
Ottawa, April 2019: C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial grade auto-acquire mobile satellite antennas, has announced its first successful integration with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking capabilities....
