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May 12, 2014

Filming of the seventh instalment of the Star Wars movie franchise will begin on Tuesday in the Abu Dhabi desert. The location of the shoot has not been revealed to...

BBC Arabic to launch film festival in London

May 12, 2014

BBC Arabic will launch a film and documentary festival in partnership with the British Council in London. Named Aan Korb (Close up), the festival will take place from October 31 to...

AMT and CATS to supply broadcast equipment to africa

by Vijaya Cherian

May 11, 2014

From left: Kaveh Farnam, CEO of AMT with the CATS team during CABSAT in Dubai.Dubai-based distributor Advanced Media Trading (AMT) has teamed up with CATS (Creative...

Conax to retain brand identity despite acquisition

May 10, 2014

The Kudelski Group has confirmed that the current structure and organisation of Conax including office locations, will not change despite the acquisition. The Kudelski Group has signed a definitive agreement...

African entertainment channel readies for launch

May 10, 2014

Joseph Kusaga.Tanzanian media conglomerate, Clouds Media Group will launch an African TV station, Clouds TV International, on June 15, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. Based out of...

KSA and Malaysia to exchange more TV content

May 8, 2014

Malaysia and Saudi Arabia have agreed in principle to boost exchange of Islamic television programmes to be aired in both countries.Malaysias Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek...

Disney hires new media agency in MENA

May 7, 2014

The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) recently announced a new retained media agency structure for the EMEA region, following a strategic review of its communications planning...

Talkabout Media gears up for live event coverage

May 7, 2014

Dubai-based boutique creative production company recently invested in a full HD fly-away OB (outside broadcast) kit aimed at servicing the local conference and events market.It's a natural extension of our...

Pixel Power speeds up MBC’s promo production

May 6, 2014

Pixel Power has provided a solution to MBC to speed up the branding of large quantities of promos and other marketing material for its MBC Bollywood channel.Pixel OnDemand runs on...

Qatar to launch new TV station from London

May 6, 2014

Qatar is all set to launch a new TV station as a rival to the hugely successful Al Jazeera Network.The new Arabic language broadcaster, called Al Arabi, will be based...

Amanda Turnbull joins as MD of Fatafeat

May 5, 2014

Discovery Networks Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), a division of Discovery Communications has appointed Amanda Turnbull as the new Managing Director for Discoverys Arabic cookery network...

Gamma Engineering adds HME intercom to inventory

May 5, 2014

Gamma Engineering, a film and TV equipment rental house based in the Middle East has recently purchased HME DX300ES, wireless intercom communication system from Nicolaos M Kyvernitis Electronics Ent.The purchased...

The Scene Club presents German film When We Leave

May 4, 2014

The May screening of The Scene Club, organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institut, will bring to Dubai the multi-awarded German drama When We Leave (Die Fremde) by Feo Aladag....

Elenos supports women-focused radio in Africa

May 2, 2014

Elenos, a radio transmitter production company has launched Women Radio Training Network (WRTN), a new project dedicated to African women.Supported by AMARC Europe (World Association of Community radio Broadcasters) and...

New health reality series on OSN

April 30, 2014

Pay-TV network, OSN, has unveiled a new health reality show specially tailored for Arab viewers, Saudi Doctors (Atibaa w Akhtar), which premieres on May 1, 2014 exclusively on OSN Ya...

Discovery Networks relocates to Dubai Studio City

April 30, 2014

Dubai Studio City.Discovery Networks Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), a division of Discovery Communications, has announced the relocation of its Middle East...

MediaCast hosts Avid S3L and ProTools 11 workshop

UAE-based Broadcast distributor MediaCast recently held a Stage to Studio workshop in association with Avid. Featuring the new Avid S3L mixing system and ProTools 11, the workshop was attended by...

4K technology to transform onscreen viewing in Asia

HD (high definition) viewing will soon be a technology of the past, with the proliferation of 4K coming Asias way. 4K, also commonly known as ultra-high definition (UHD), is an evolved...

Yahoo makes foray into TV with comedy series

Yahoo has announced two original television length comedy series to be released next year. Both will launch through its video portal Yahoo Screen next year and will be available both...

Clear-Com appoints Nicki Fisher as Director of EMEA sales

Nicki Fisher, EMEA Sales Director, Clear-Com.Clear-Com has appointed Nicki Fisher to the role of Director of EMEA Sales, effective immediately. Reporting directly to Bob Boster, President...

Al Jazeera seeks USD 150m compensation from Egypt

Qatars Al Jazeera network has lodged a formal complaint against Egypt demanding USD 150 million in compensation to cover for damages to its investments in the country since July 2013.Al...

Etisalat’s Q1 net profit up 11%

April 28, 2014

UAE telco Etisalat has reported an 11% rise in its first-quarter profit. The groups aggregate subscriber base was 145 m in March 2014, indicating a year on year growth of 3%.The...

Local YouTube content under scrutiny in KSA

April 27, 2014

Saudi Arabia is planning tighter regulation of video content produced in the country for YouTube. According to Google, viewers in Saudi Arabia watch three times as much YouTube content as...

Exton acquires BTS

April 24, 2014

Scandinavian systems integrator Exton has acquired Broadcast Systems Integration BTS GmbH in Germany for an undisclosed fee.We believe BTS is a good fit for our growth, said Exton CEO Sverrir Hreidarsson.Broadcasting...

Bollywood action thriller to shoot in Abu Dhabi

April 24, 2014

Bollywood stars Hritik Roshan and Katrina Kaif.Close on the heels of Disneys Star Wars and Fast and Furious 7, big-budget Bollywood production, Bang Bang, is now...

Disneys ‘Star Wars’ begins filming in Abu Dhabi

April 23, 2014

Walt Disneys Star Wars has begun shooting in Abu Dhabi. This is the seventh installment of the popular Sci-Fi movie series but the first under the Walt Disney brand.Alan Horn,...

Bassem Youssef’s show goes off-air until Egyptian elections

April 22, 2014

Bassem Youssef.MBC Masr has suspended Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssefs talk show until the end of May. MBC Masr said it would keep the show off-air until...

Al Jazeera America expands Ali Velshi’s business show to an hour

April 22, 2014

Ali Velshi.Al Jazeera America has expanded the time of the business show, Real Money with Ali Velshi, to one hour.Real Money host Ali Velshi tracks the days most...

DFI presents popular Brazilian documentary ‘Elena’

April 21, 2014

Doha Film Institutes Qatar Brazil 2014 Cinema Showcase will bring the film Elena this month. The most watched Brazilian documentary of 2013, Elena by Petra Costa, portrays love and loss...

Nicole Garcia heads Caméra dor jury at Cannes

April 20, 2014

Nicole Garcia.Actor, Director and Screenwriter Nicole Garcia will preside over the jury for this years Caméra dor award for the best debut film at Cannes. In this...

Al Jazeera America to produce documentaries on low-income living

April 18, 2014

Al Jazeera America will produce a six-part documentary series in collaboration with Kartemquin Films. Production has already begun on Hard Earned, which will explore the lives of five American families struggling to...

Most Arabs want tighter censorship of films and television: Survey

April 17, 2014

The Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East survey conducted by Northwestern University in Qatar in partnership with the Doha Film Institute has revealed that the majority of Arabs want tighter...

Final season of ‘Hareem Al Sultan’ set for April 21 launch

April 17, 2014

The final chapter of Turkish series Hareem Al Sultan is set to mark its exclusive premiere on OSN.Returning to OSN Ya Hala HD, the series finale of Hareem Al Sultan...

Shure opens MEA office

April 16, 2014

(L to R) Jan Villumsen, Freddy Sicko, Remina Castro and Chicco Hiranandani.Shure EMEA has announced the opening of a regional office in Dubai from May 1,...

Thorsten Goecke to head Atlona’s EMEA, Commercial

April 16, 2014

Atlona, an AV distribution solutions company, has announced the appointment of Thorsten Goecke as Director of Business Development for the company's EMEA commercial division. In his new role, Goecke will...

Matrox Adds Features to VS4Recorder Including Gang Recording

by BroadcastPro ME Admin

New VS4Control feature lets live event producers capture an unlimited number of video sources Unlimited, synchronized, multi-channelHD video capture now provided inVS4Recorder app for the Matrox VS4quad HD capture cardMONTREAL ...

XOR Media Selects Matrox DSX LE3 SDI Card to Power MediaServer G

by BroadcastPro ME Admin

New video playout and branding server is ideal for television broadcast, content production, live entertainment and sports applicationsMONTREAL April 2, 2014 Matrox® Video today announced that video equipment...

Dublin Arabic Film Festival to debut in May

A scene from the film Monsieur Ibrahim.Dublin Arabic Film Festival (DAFF) makes its debut this year and will run from May 8 to 11. It is...

Arab celebrities impersonate renowned singers in Your Face Sounds Familiar

Jury member Haifa Wehbe with Mazen Hayek.MBC Group held a press conference recently to officially launch the new program Your Face Sounds Familiar that will broadcast...

Al Jazeera America restructures

April 14, 2014

Al Jazeera America has laid off dozens of employees as part of its restructuring plans. The cable channel is disbanding its sport unit and is cutting its daily social media...

Etisalat introduces News 18 India

April 12, 2014

Etisalat eVision IPTV network has introduced IndiaCast television channel News 18 India, which was introduced in the UK in July 2013. The channel has also launched in Singapore on SingTel's...

Participant Media to fund Malala Yousafzai film with Image Nation

April 10, 2014

Image Nation Abu Dhabi has announced that it had attracted funding from American production company, Participant Media, for its forthcoming documentary about the life of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl...

Pay-TV in MENA hits 4.35m: IHS

April 10, 2014

The pay-TV market in the Middle East and North Africa has quadrupled in the last 10 years, according to a report released by research firm HIS. It said that the...

Al Jazeera strikes gold at NY Festivals Television & Film Awards

April 10, 2014

New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards, now in its 57th year, announced the award winners at their annual Gala at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The GrandJury...

MAF partners with Twentieth Century Fox for film promotion

Majid Al Futtaim has announced a partnership with Twentieth Century Fox and Empire International, their distributor in the Middle East. Their collaboration will promote the upcoming film RIO 2 by...

Aflamnah undertakes first live crowdfunding event in the region

Aflamnah, the first crowdfunding initiative dedicated to creative ventures in the Arab World, has been host to over 70 crowdfunding projects since its launch in July 2012 and raised over...

OSN premieres fourth season of Hareem Al Sultan

OSN is launching the premiere of the fourth season of the critically acclaimed Turkish series, Hareem Al Sultan, with a series of theatrical performances in malls in Dubai, Abu Dhabi,...

NAB Show attendance surpasses 98,000

The National Association of Broadcasters has released preliminary figures for the 2014 NAB Show with total registered attendance at 98,015. The 2013 NAB Show final attendance was 93,850."NAB Show continues...

Homegrown Arabic reality shows on the rise

New research from the Arab Advisors Group reveals that out of the 18 analysed Arabic reality TV shows aired in 2013/2014, at least nine are original shows and not just...

OSN to broadcast IPL 2014

Pay-TV platform OSN will broadcast the Indian Premier League (IPL) live from April 16 until June 1, 2014.This years IPL will be held in the UAE, Bangladesh and India in...

Al Jazeera signs global Sony XDCAM HD 422 deal for newsgathering

by Vijaya Cherian

April 8, 2014

Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network is standardising on Sonys XDCAM HD 422 camcorder range for its news broadcasting service. Al Jazeera selected the PMW-500 and PMW-200 camcorders with supporting accessories...

New Grass Valley debuts at NAB

The new Grass Valley, formed by the merger of Miranda and Grass Valley, was unveiled to the public at NAB.Marco Lopez, President of Grass Valley said: The new Grass Valley...

Imagine Communications acquires Digital Rapids

Charlie Vogt, CEO, Imagine Communications.Imagine Communications, formerly Harris Broadcast and now a software and networking solutions company, will acquire Digital Rapids, an IP and file-based media processing solutions...

Dubais film and TV entities represent the region at MIPTV

Dubais key players in the film and TV content market Dubai Studio City (DSC), Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) and Dubai Film and TV Commission (DFTC) will be exhibiting...

BroadcastAsia 2014 to focus on OTT and multiscreen

BroadcastAsia 2013.Social media, OTT and multi-platform screening are some of the key trends to watch in 2014. Fuelled by a steep increase in consumption of data...

Dalet acquires Amberfin

Dalet Digital Media Systems, a provider of MAM solutions has signed a definitive agreement with Advent Venture Partners to acquire AmberFin, a UK-based company that specialises in video ingest, complex...

Sharjah TV upgrades wireless technology with Axient

Shajahan KK flanked by Zafwat Zaki and Khaled Al Shehi from Sharjah TV (right).Sharjah TV has recently purchased Axient wireless system from Nicolaos M Kyvernitis Electronics...

TDA renews mediumwave stations

April 6, 2014

Ampegon mediumwave antenna.Algeria's national broadcaster Télédiffusion dAlgérie (TDA) has selected TRANSRADIO and Ampegon to modernise two mediumwave transmission stations. The project was offered in cooperation between TRANSRADIO...

Sony announces 4K coverage of FIFA