MP & Silva, the company that bought the MENA rights to the EPL for the next three seasons, has announced that Peter Hutton is now its Chief Operating Officer. Hutton ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.OSN has recorded more than 30% subscriber growth in 2012 and expects similar growth levels this year, according to a statement from the ...
At one of the workshops.TROPFEST Arabia, a twofour54 initiative, hosted two workshops in Dubai and Abu Dhabi last week as part of a regional series aimed ...
Middle East systems integrator Media Group International (MGI) has partnered with Hybrid, a major provider of real-time graphics and robotic camera systems. MGI will sell and support Hybrids virtual studio ...
Harris Broadcast will conduct its 2013 roadshow in Erbil, Iraq, on May 27 and 28 at Divan Hotel.The event will focus on the entire broadcast workflow and demonstrate how broadcasters ...
The Sultanate of Omans Ministry of Health has announced the launch of a health education TV channel titled Hayah. The channel was developed by Oman-based IT firm Anzyma and will ...
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) is inviting entries to the seventh edition of the Festival, which will be held from October 24-November 2, 2013. Entries will be accepted until ...
Al Jazeera English has refurbished its iPad app, adding what it terms a 'social second screen' alongside its subscription-free live TV feed.While watching live news, users will be able to ...
Image Nation Abu Dhabis film club Bopcorn & Sawaalef will host a discussion with Vida Rizq, the founder of Aflamnah, to enable local filmmakers to understand the concept of crowdfunding ...
Abu Dhabi skyline.Marcio Moraes, one of Brazil's leading TV personalities, recently visited Abu Dhabi to film five travel destination features on the emirate, which will be ...
Abu Dhabi International Environmental Film Festival (ADIEFF) will kick off tomorrow at the Abu Dhabi Theatre at Water Breaker.The festival, organised under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Hamdan bin ...
VidiGo has partnered with Turkish systems integrator and solutions provider Avkom Teknoloji to promote its broadcast solutions more actively in the country. The company plans to host its first road ...
A recently released MRG report says cloud-based TV service revenues will increase from nearly $120 million in 2013 to more than three quarters of a billion dollars by 2017. Garnering ...
DiaQuest Products, a software development firm with a focus on the video and film industries, has announced that Qatar Television (QTV), a popular station in the Middle East, is using ...
TV Zimbo production floor.Broadcast systems integrator VSC Design has been appointed to supply and install the new broadcast infrastructure for TV Zimbo which is to undergo ...
Saudi-based systems integrator First Gulf Company has secured a deal to deliver a full 1080p HD broadcast facility that includes the installation of a whopping 96 cameras in Makkah. When ...
The new Al Jalsat set.7 Production and Events has announced the successful completion of the filming of Al Jalsat, an Arabic TV show for a leading ...
Harris Broadcast has secured a new DVB-T2 transmission order from Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) as the country continues its transition to a national network of digital transmitters and satellite services. ...
Dubai-based telecom service provider du and international multiscreen solution provider Visual Unity have teamed up to extend their services to a wider broadcast industry customer base in the UAE.This agreement will ...
Dipesh Makwana has been appointed Technical Sales Manager at Snell's newly launched Middle East office.Snell has announced the launch of a new sales office in the ...
New-York based photographer and filmmaker Eduardo Angel and Dubai based filmmaker Sherif Mokbel were at Gulf Photo Plus annual photography festival to discuss the power of the Panasonics LUMIX DMC-GH3 ...
The Embassy of France and Institut Français in the UAE will host the francOfilms Festival, which will run from March 23-29 at VOX Cinemas, Mall of the Emirates. The event ...
Qatar Media Services (q.media), owned by the Qatari government, has completed the acquisition of Gulf Film and Grand Cinemas, the largest film distributor and cinema operator in the Middle East.q.media ...
Danielle Perissi.Image Nation has launched a new division called Strategic Media Solutions division to offer partners strategic direction and creative development across a range of media ...
Abu Dhabi skyline.Infinity TV, which recently moved to the Twofour54 campus in Abu Dhabi, has launched two new channels with the help of a complete workflow ...
Dubai-based Mediastream FZE, which represents and distributes several satellite TV channels in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with E?TV NETWORK LIMITED. According ...
NAB Show will be partnering with Waskul.TV and leveraging Intels StudioXperience to deliver live coverage from this years NAB event.Waskul.TV will stream live from StudioXperience and provide daily coverage while ...
A scene from Lost Christmas.Hyde Park Image Nation won an International Emmy Kids Award for its co-production Lost Christmas earlier this month. The programme, which aired ...
The key to the success of any OTT service is the quality of delivery, says Antonin Král of nangu.tvTheres no doubt that smart phones and tablets have provided a major ...
Cliff Nelson, CEO of My-HD Media.My-HD, a secure, independent, affordable television platform that offers a single viewing card solution for High Definition (HD) channels in the ...
Calrec Artemis.Calrec has added Automixer, an automatic mixing function, to its Bluefin2 signal-processing engine, the driving force behind its Apollo and Artemis mixing consoles. Automixer attenuates ...
One of the challenges for the modern broadcaster is to achieve operational flexibility, to allow technical and creative teams to co-operate in new ways. This might be direct working between ...
Mahmud Shammam.This March, Libyas first news channel will turn two. It was launched during the revolution by an ex-Information Minister and journalist to keep the Libyan ...
Belden Inc. has extended its range of coaxial digital video cables and connectors in the EMEA region by introducing the Broadcast industrys first HD Digital Video cables with improved Electro ...
Peyman Dadpanah with the Blackmagic cinema camera.UAE-based distributor MediaCast will showcase the much-awaited Blackmagic Cinema Camera at CABSAT. The launch of the camera will also mark ...
Jim Berk and Abdulziz Al-Khater.Doha Film Institute (DFI) and Participant Media, known for films as An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., The Help, The Best Exotic Marigold ...
Jamal Al Sharif.Dubai Film & TV Commission (DFTC) has confirmed its support of the IMAX Film Festival, debuting at the Meydan IMAX Theatre on Friday 15th ...
London based broadcast specialist Vision247 has acquired Fora, a Slovenian IPTV software solutions company in a deal valued at more than 2 million. The acquisition expands Vision247s role as a ...
Louis Hernandez.Avid's Board of Directors has appointed Louis Hernandez as president and chief executive officer, effective February 11. Hernandez succeeds former president and chief executive officer ...
Pixel Power will announce the international launch of its Gallium integrated scheduling, asset management and automation system at CABSAT. Gallium is the companys integrated, sophisticated and scalable scheduling, asset management ...
Salam Media Cast has changed its name to Media Group International. The Ghanim bin Saad & Sons Group Holdings-owned company will exhibit under its new name for the first time ...
Stefan Breder and Munzer Rushdi.German systems integrator Broadcast Solutions has recently established a new office in Dubai. General Manager Munzer Rushdi, who has more than 27 ...
The 2013 edition of CABSAT, which will run from March 12 to 14 at Dubai World Trade Centre boasts a 15% increase in size and is set to welcome leading ...
Tim Kennedy at Dubai Creek.Armed with a small camcorder, filmmaker and academician Tim Kennedy goes every week to Dubai Creek to capture the sights and sounds ...
Karl Schubert.Broadcasting used to rely solely on proprietary technologies. That isnt surprising considering the massive amounts of real-time information that broadcasters deal with on a daily ...
Karim Alexander Pitstra.Karim Alexander Pitstra was born in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, in 1979, to a Tunisian father and a Dutch mother. He made his first film ...
Vijaya Cherian, Group Editor, Broadcast DivisionNow that the honeymoon is over, the serious business of accountability has begun in the Middle East broadcast industry. The recession ...
Stefan with the Canon C500.SAE institutes head of film Stefan Randjelovic takes the C500 for a field test and shares his views exclusively with BroadcastPro ME When ...
Jamal Al Sharif, Managing Director of Dubai Studio City.Rental houses offering production kit for film projects in Dubai must stock more equipment and offer better rates ...
Swarup Mukherjee.TSL Professional Products Ltd. (PPL) has appointed Swarup Mukherjee as Regional Sales Manager for the companys Middle East, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh operations. Mukherjee, who ...
CABSAT 2013, the leading digital media event in the region, and third largest on the global calendar, is poised to drive the debate on digital television with an extensive and ...
Crystal Vision will be showing the newly-launched versions of its chroma keyers and video delays. The easy-to-drive Safire 3 real-time chroma keyer uses a sophisticated algorithm and numerous key processing ...
At CABSAT 2013, on Stand D6-30, Vislink will feature the latest broadcast products from its class leading brands of Advent, Gigawave, Link, MRC and PMR.Vislink will focus on the latest ...
Haris Effendi, founder and CEO of FND.FND, an independent video production company, and its subsidiary FNDTV, which claims to be the UKs largest event broadcast channel ...
Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkheyour.Arabsat has signed an agreement with the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation (OTE), one of the largest telecom groups in South Eastern Europe, for the ...
The Gores Group, LLC has successfully completed the acquisition of Harris Corporations Broadcast Communications Division, with each of its global subsidiaries set to close shortly at individually assigned dates. Going ...
Tim Felstead is the newly appointed Head of Sales and Marketing at ATG Broadcast.UK-based broadcast systems integrator ATG Broadcast has appointed Tim Felstead as Head of ...
