Jordan Media City (JMC) has chosen ViBE VS7000 multiscreen encoding/transcoding platform to drive its new OTT service offering. Based in the Jordanian capital of Amman, JMC provides broadcasting and playout ...
Saleh Lootah, DMI.Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has chosen new Spectrum media servers from Harmonic for an upgrade of the company's main broadcast facility in Dubai. Already ...
Arabsat and Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) will jointly launch a triple-play broadcast and communications service across the MENA region.The new Trio platform is built on EMC's SATLink technology and will be ...
Huawei has announced that its video aggregation service, offering the latest regional and international video content and applications from all over the world, will be launched in Europe before the ...
Kit Digital Inc.s former Chairman and CEO and its former CFO were arrested and charged with accounting fraud at the software company. Both are being held, pending extradition to the ...
The award-winning film Theeb is Jordans official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 88th Academy Awards.The selection was made by a committee of Jordanian artists and ...
Conax has entered a contract with StarTimes to co-develop a media gateway solution for its Africa operations. With over five million DTH and DTT subscribers and operations across 16 countries, the ...
Arabsat will showcase the capabilities and service offerings of its soon-to-be-launched satellite Badr-7 at IBC.Eng. Khalid Bin Ahmed Balkheyour, President & CEO of Arabsat, stated: Arabsat will present the services ...
Hasan R Sayed Hasan, MD, MasterMedia.Master Media, a media consultancy and development company and RealVision, a visual communications company, have joined hands to bring cinematic virtual reality ...
The Rugby World Cup returns this month to OSN. This will be the fourth time that the pay-TV network brings the tournament to the regions screens, with live and exclusive coverage of ...
Net Insight, a provider of live, interactive and on-demand media transport, has acquired US software company, ScheduAll, in a $14m all-cash deal.The two companies expect the integration to be a ...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon company, has reached an agreement to acquire Elemental Technologies, Inc. The acquisition brings together Elementals video solutions with the AWS cloud platform to ...
Dubai-based pay-TV network OSN, which is owned by Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) and Saudi Arabia's Mawarid Group, is reported to have signed a $400-million five-year loan with the cash to ...
Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has upgraded the NETIA Radio-Assist radio automation suite used by the kingdom's national audio archives. SBC worked with NETIA's area partner, First Gulf Company, to upgrade ...
The cast of Iftah Ya Simsim.The Arabic version of Sesame Street, Iftah Ya Simsim, is all set to make a comeback on MENA TV screens after ...
Fahad Al Hassawi.Through a brand new collaboration with Starz Play, du customers now have the choice to enjoy thousands of hours of HD quality content from ...
Ericsson has signed an exclusive multi-year broadcast and media services contract with Image Nation Abu Dhabi, to handle playout, media preparation, media management and archive services for the new Arabic-language ...
The eight-camera OB van is wired for 12.Dubai-based INC System Integrations has handed over an eight-camera, full HD OB van to Kuwait TV.The double expandable van with ...
LaunchPad runs on Vizrt's Viz rendering engine, a third-party touchscreen, RCS software and RCS' cloud database DataCenter.MBC Pro Sports has chosen Reality Check Systems (RCS) LaunchPad ...
Majid Al Ansari.Image Nation Abu Dhabis latest Emirati feature film, Zinzana, will have its world premiere alongside the best new horror, thriller and sci-fi films at ...
beIN Sports has won the exclusive rights to broadcast matches from Portugal's top football division, Primeira Liga. With this agreement, beIN Sports becomes the network with Spain's widest international football offer ...
ContentWise, a personalisation, discovery and recommendations solution for digital TV content, has announced that it has partnered with Babeleye, a multi-lingual video content metadata platform, to bring personalised TV experiences to the Middle East ...
Emad Morcos.GO Online TV by OSN will bring exclusive anytime, anywhere access to WWE Network. GO customers have access to WWE Network that offers 12 WWE ...
Three feature films by Arab filmmakers, supported by DIFFs Dubai Film Market (DFM), will showcase at the 40th Toronto Film Festival (TIFF), running from September 10th to September 20th, 2015.The line-up ...
Eurostar Group has announced the launch of Asianet Mobile TV tablet and app for the GCC a bouquet of twenty popular Malayalam television channels and an entire range of ...
Icflix has announced the launch of a new and fresh, redesigned version of its website www.icflix.com. Key features of the site include a cleaner more attractive design, and a more engaging ...
Dubai Film and TV Commission (DFTC) has announced an internship programme for aspiring filmmakers to gain first-hand filmmaking experience on the Star Trek production in Dubai.The internship programme will run ...
EUTELSAT 8 West B satellite was successfully launched into orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket on August 20 from Kourou in French Guiana.EUTELSAT 8 West B ...
Tunisian director Leyla Bouzids film As I Open My Eyes supported by twofour54s development and post-production fund, SANAD, has been selected to screen five different times in the World Contemporary Cinema ...
Jamal Al Sharif.The global premiere of Bollywood film Welcome Back will be held in Dubai at Music Hall on September 2, 2015 ahead of the films GCC ...
Globecast Media factory, Singapore.Spending on products and services in the $48 bn broadcast and media technology industry shifted dramatically between 2012 and 2014, according to the ...
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Ltd. has partnered with Vuclip to engage WWE fans in emerging markets with video clips on their mobile phones. Through this partnership, Vuclip will make available WWEs ...
Qatari broadcaster Al Rayyan TV has installed a Calrec Artemis console at the Al Shahaniya camel race track as part of an upgrade to its studio there. The Artemis, which ...
Abdulla AL Balooshi, General Director of Technical and Technology Affairs at IAA.Information Affairs Authority (IAA), a government-owned broadcaster in Bahrain, has upgraded its news infrastructure with ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.An unauthorised distributor of UKTV channels in the UAE has been fined by the Dubai court. A fine of USD 13,610 was imposed on the ...
BroadcastPro Middle East hosted a roundtable on August 13, 2015 at Conrad Dubai to discuss the various challenges of deploying cloud services in the Middle East. Sponsored by Imagine Communications, the ...
A new season of football from across the globe is now showing on Abu Dhabi Sports channels, which are available only on pay TV network, OSN.Football fans can look forward to ...
Mohammed Assaf won the Arab Idol in 2013.Doha Film Institute has signed a co-financing agreement on The Idol (Ya Tayr El Tayr), a biopic of Mohammad ...
In a recent expansion of Mecca's Masjid Al Haram, the Holy Mosque and its associated elements were upgraded. A part of this project has been the complete upgrade of the Mecca Mokabariah ...
Dima Khatib, MD of AJ+.Al Jazeera Media Network has appointed Dima Khatib as Managing Director of its digital-only news platform, AJ+.AJ+ was launched in 2014, with ...
Image Nation Abu Dhabi has announced that its critically acclaimed documentary Every Last Child is now available to download on iTunes in the Middle East.Directed by the BAFTA award-winning Tom Roberts, ...
IABM has appointed Stan Moote to the position of CTO at the association.Stan Moote began his television career in 1977, while interning as a plant engineer for CFTO-TV in Toronto, ...
Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) has contracted Marquis Media Partners to provide the public broadcaster with a five year strategy to cover all its areas of operation. The three month project, secured ...
ChyronHego has acquired VidiGo, a Dutch provider of IT-based software solutions for live broadcast production workflows. Based in Amsterdam, VidiGo provides a suite of tools for the creation and management ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.Following the crackdown on TV piracy in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah that was led by the concerted efforts of pay-TV network OSN, ...
Syrian drama series 'The Brothers' has been filming in Abu Dhabi since February 2014.The Arab Advisors Groups analysis of 61 Arabic series broadcast during the holy ...
Extron Electronics has announced that it has purchased Entwine AG of Zurich, Switzerland. Entwine specialises in building end-to-end video capture and presentation capture solutions using OpenCast Matterhorn, HTML5 and WebRTC.The ...
Dubai-based distributor United Broadcast and Media Solutions (UBMS) held a DJI Ronin workshop last week at the UBMS Training Academy in Garhoud, Dubai. The three-hour session was conducted by UBMSs ...
Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director.Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director and will head the companys MENA operations, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. ...
TV's supernanny Jo Frost.British reality star Jo Frosts Supernanny TV series is all set to shoot in Saudi Arabia.Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour will be produced ...
Icflix has released a new version of its Android app, introducing a new sleeker user interface and several new additional features.The new icflix 2.0 can be downloaded from Google Play.Carlos ...
Maaz Sheikh.Streaming service Starz Play has rolled out prepaid subscription cards in the UAE with plans to gradually introduce them in Saudi Arabia and other MENA ...
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the first Ferrari branded theme park, has installed Clear-Coms FreeSpeak II digital wireless intercom system for ride operation coordination, communication and safety. Clear-Com Distributor NMK Electronics ...
The inaugural edition of Animate Dubai, the GCCs first international animation film festival will take place from December 3 to 5 at Dubai Design District. The three-day festival offers a weekend ...
4C, a data science software company, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Teletrax from Civolution. Teletrax provides solutions for real-time television analytics and cross-screen synchronised marketing campaigns. ...
Globecast has broadcast the world feed and a wide range of other transmission services for President Obamas official visit to Kenya and Ethiopia. The visit has garnered headlines around the ...
The Scottish Loan Fund (SLF) has committed $ 5.46m of funding in support of Paywizard. The funding boost from the SLF will support Paywizard as it seeks to capitalise on ...
Olympic stadium London 2012.BeIN Sports has been awarded the exclusive broadcast rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the Olympic games between 2018 ...
Dus ad campaign du Tuesday has bagged a Bronze Lion in the Film Craft category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2015. The win brings a number of ...
John Smith.Media Links has appointed John Smith as Head of EMEA region.Media Links EMEA develops broadcast network infrastructure technologies to transport content over IP contribution and ...
