The Scene Club presents German film When We Leave
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....
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.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...
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...
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.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 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...
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...
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...
(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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 Corporation and FIFA have announced that they will collaborate on a range of 4K initiatives at the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil from June 12 to July...
OSN's CEO David Butorac with George Kordahi (centre), Kholoud Abu Homos (2nd from right) and the other stars.Pay TV network OSN has announced that it has...
Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC) has completed the acquisition of Grass Valley. It has also announced the merger of Miranda and Grass Valley under the name Grass Valley, A Belden Brand....
Image Nation has announced production of As One, a new feature-length documentary about autism directed by Emmy Award-winning Director Tricia Regan.The film is part of The Autism Project, an initiative...
Pay-TV operator OSN will start its IPO within weeks. Faisal Al Ayyar, Deputy Chairman of KIPCO, a major investor in OSN, said he hoped the bourse listing would be completed by...
twofour54s Creative Campus will lead three days of workshops, meet creative talent, and demonstrate animation techniques at the Middle East Film & Comic Con (MEFCC) 2014 event, which will run...
Ben Kinealy, CEO of Intigral.Dubai-based media entity Intigral announced today that its Dawri Plus app, created especially to provide enhanced viewing experiences for football fans, received...
Director Ali Mostafa with the crew of From A to B.Filming has begun on a new Emirati film titled From A to B. Directed by the maker...
An artist's impression of the mall.Mall of Qatar has selected Cinemacity to create the largest Cineplex in Qatar and the IMAX theatre will be one of...
Several sessions, workshops and panels at NAB Show will discuss the increasing role played by ultra high-definition standards for 4K television displays and production technology in the media and entertainment...
A new deal between Egyptian broadcaster CBC and Endemol will see the launch of a new format in the region, according to a report in WorldScreen. Endemol is producing a...
The fifth edition of the the Zayed University Middle East Film Festival (ZUMEFF) competition has received more than 100 entries for five competition categories, the Abu Dhabi-based university announced in...
Digital security and convergent media solutions company, The Kudelski Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Conax AS from Telenor Broadcast Holding AS. Headquartered in Oslo, Conax is a...