Ahead of the 2021/22 season, the Professional Football League has awarded Amazon the majority of broadcast rights to France’s top-flight soccer competition for three seasons.
IP technology and the move to the cloud remain hot topics for broadcasters and production houses. At the recent BroadcastPro Tech Summit, industry experts explored new opportunities, existing challenges and ...
Software-defined satellites present an $87bn revenue opportunity thanks to payload flexibility and price advantages. But challenges around production, ground operations and interoperability must first be resolved, experts tell Keith Fernandez.
The appointment follows Amazon Studios restructure of its unscripted operations of its Prime Video and Freevee teams in the US last month.
Through Project Kuiper, Amazon has planned to build a network of 3,236 satellites to provide high-speed internet around the globe.
Amazon has won EU antitrust approval for its $8.5bn acquisition of MGM.
The film, which documents the epic resistance of the people of Khorfakkan against colonial invasion, will be available on Amazon, Google Play, Apple Store, and Sky Store.
As a result of production problems caused by pandemics, Netflix started 2021 with a light slate of content.
Alexa's Fatafeat skill is available on Amazon's Echo devices.
Prior to Viacom and Awesomeness, Day worked in various roles at Discovery and AOL and served as CEO of venture-backed video company Blip Networks.
Moviegoers will be able to ask Alexa about timings and other details of movies screening at Reel Cinemas.
The two prototype satellites - KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 - will serve as a testbed for technologies that Amazon plans to use to offer broadband internet service around the globe.
Ninetnine, a content distribution company helmed by Samir Zehani and Adel Hamla, has successfully catered to North African and Arabic audiences in France and Europe, with strategically designed TV packages ...
Prior to Souq and Amazon, Ghobrial led business development for Prodea Systems with leading telecommunication companies in the MENA region, Asia and Africa.
The TVs, which will be powered by voice assistant Alexa, are currently designed and manufactured by third parties, one of which is TCL.
Amazon's Project Kuiper filed a protest against SpaceX's plan for more Starlink satellites.
Consumers can add Amitabh Bachchan’s voice to their Echo devices for INR 149 ($2) for one year.
The move brings an end to Facebooks efforts to deliver internet connectivity to remote areas via its own satellites.
NBCUniversal and Amazon have also reached a distribution agreement for NBCUniversal’s network apps, which include NBC, Bravo, NBC News, NBC Sports and Telemundo.
Amazon Studios will give productions a report template for documentation on how they fare with the policy.
The deal is the second-largest acquisition in Amazon’s history, after its $13.7bn purchase of Whole Foods in 2017.
The Atlas V has been used to launch multiple national security and NASA missions, including the Perseverance Rover currently roaming Mars.
The TV series will be in the same fictional universe created by author JRR Tolkien, who published the series at intervals between 1954 and 1955.
The FATW library with over 150 feature films and 500 hours of audio programmes will offer content to Cinedigm’s growing streaming channel initiatives.
The report predicts further growth in 2021 as TV viewers continue to migrate towards internet-based video platforms and away from traditional broadcast and pay TV services.
Amazon will start making the devices via a subsidiary of its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group.
Laura Lancaster joins as head of series, Marc Resteghini promoted to lead development.
Discovery+ is available on Samsung Smart TVs released since 2017 as a ‘featured app’ and preinstalled on new TVs as a ‘priority’ app.
Bezos said he will stay engaged in important Amazon projects but will also have more time to focus on the Bezos Earth Fund.
The three international players have joined the HbbTV Association in the last six months encouraging other entities to do the same.
Prime service is priced at SR 16($4.2), while customers can also save by purchasing at SR140 ($37.32) annual membership.
The seventh edition of MIP Cancun is scheduled to take place online from November 17 to 20, 2020.
The service aims to give customers the ability to add live and interactive video in their mobile and web applications in minutes, using the same technology as Twitch.
If implemented, the move will put YouTube in direct competition to Amazon and Apple which offer similar services at the moment.
Hopkins will take over the new role from February 24 and will report directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Amazon Web Services Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets users control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale satellite operations.
Darren Star joins James Farrell, Head of International Originals for Amazon Studios; Farhad Massoudi, CEO/Founder and Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer of TUBI; Twitter’s Kay M. Madati, Global VP and ...
Working together to find a common, shared approach to data could have amazing benefits.
NSR expects greater pressure on capacity pricing with an aggressive industry focus on addressing consumer broadband customers later in the forecast.
Amazon revealed for the first time that it spent $1.7bn on video and music content. With this investment, it aims to capitalise on production costs of all original content to ...
The official YouTube app and other apps will be available on Fire TV in the coming months. Prime members streaming to Chromecast and on Android TV devices will have unlimited access to ...
2019 will see The Mediapro Studio create, produce and distribute 34 series in Spanish and English with a global reach.
Harrie Tholen, VP Sales, Nagra Anti-Piracy & NexGuard.Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its ...
On October 4, an article published by Bloomberg Businessweek titled: "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies" claimed an attack by Chinese spies reached ...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced plans to demonstrate advanced approaches for media ingest, video processing and delivery, storage, content monetisation, and machine-learning enhanced video at ...
OTT platforms such as Amazon are believed to be in pole position to acquire US sports rights, with the costs offset by increased Prime subscriptions, allied to additional income from ...
NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke has been named head of Amazon Studios.Salke will oversee all television and film production for Amazon's entertainment arm, reporting to Jeff Blackburn, Senior VP of business development and digital ...
Three Amazon Studios executives have left the streaming service for similar positions at Apple, according to media reports.According to reports in Variety, Tara Sorensen, the head of Amazon kids programming, will take on a similar role ...
Still from the Netflix funded series 'Stranger Things'SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) services, provided by the likes of Netflix and Amazon, will drive a surge in OTT revenues to ...
Still from 'Taskmaster'UKTV has become the first UK broadcaster to add a voice-enabled search on Amazon Fire TV.The UKTV Play app was developed in-house by the ...
BBC Director General Tony Hall has said that the BBC iPlayer will be reinvented in a bid to make it the UKs top online TV service by 2020.He described iPlayer ...
Netflix has completed its migration to the cloud, using Amazon Web Services as its provider for hosted services.The process, which started seven years ago, means Netflix no longer uses its ...
