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September 8, 2015

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 to introduce Badr-7 at IBC

September 8, 2015

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 ...

MasterMedia and RealVision partner for virtual reality project

September 6, 2015

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 ...

Rugby World Cup returns to OSN

September 6, 2015

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 acquires ScheduAll

September 6, 2015

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 ...

Elemental acquired by Amazon Web Services

September 4, 2015

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 ...

OSN secures US $400m loan

September 3, 2015

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 upgrades to NETIA Radio-Assist 8.2

September 3, 2015

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 ...

Arabic version of Sesame Street to air from this month

September 3, 2015

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 ...

Du and Starz Play partner

September 2, 2015

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 ...

Image Nation to launch Quest Arabiya with Ericsson

September 2, 2015

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 ...

INC delivers HD OB van to Kuwait TV

September 1, 2015

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 ...

MBC Pro Sports opts for RCS LaunchPad

August 31, 2015

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 ...

Emirati thriller Zinzana to debut at Fantastic Fest in Texas

August 30, 2015

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 inks deal with Portuguese football division

August 30, 2015

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 and Babeleye bring personalised TV to MEA

August 28, 2015

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 ...

OSN GO offers WWE content

August 27, 2015

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 ...

Arab films head to Toronto International Film Fest

August 26, 2015

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 launches Asianet mobile TV app

August 25, 2015

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 revamps website

August 23, 2015

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 ...

DFTC offers internship to aspiring filmmakers on Star Trek production

August 21, 2015

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 launches into orbit

by Staff Writer

August 21, 2015

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 film selected for Toronto International Film Festival

August 20, 2015

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 ...

Bollywood film set for global premiere in Dubai

August 20, 2015

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 ...

Significant shift in broadcast products and services spend: GMVR

August 19, 2015

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 ...

WWE partners with Vuclip

August 19, 2015

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 ...

Al Rayyan TV upgrades camel racing studio with Calrec

August 18, 2015

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 ...

Bahrain Information Affairs Authority (IAA) upgrades news room

August 18, 2015

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 ...

Dubai court fines illegal distributor of UKTV channels

August 17, 2015

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 ...

MENA CTOs discuss the possibility of creating a cloud consortium at BroadcastPro roundtable

August 17, 2015

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 ...

Abu Dhabi Sports brings more football to viewers this season

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 ...

Doha Film Institute to co-finance The Idol movie

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 ...

Masjid Al Haram in Mecca deploys Sennheiser mics

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 appointed MD of Al Jazeeras digital platform

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 Nations documentary on polio on iTunes

August 12, 2015

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 appoints Stan Moote as CTO

August 12, 2015

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, ...

Ethiopian public broadcaster selects Marquis

August 11, 2015

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 acquires VidiGo

August 11, 2015

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 ...

Ajman DED partners with OSN to nab TV pirates

August 11, 2015

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, ...

Ramadan 2015 TV viewing centred on drama: Arab Advisors Group

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 buys software firm Entwine AG

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 ...

UBMS hosts DJI Ronin workshop

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 joins Irdeto

by Vijaya Cherian

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. ...

American Supernanny series to include Saudi Arabia

August 7, 2015

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 introduces new interface for Android devices

August 5, 2015

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 ...

Starz Play offers prepaid cards, ties with Ooredoo

August 5, 2015

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 deploys Clear-Com intercom system

August 3, 2015

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 ...

Dubai to host the GCCs first animation film fest in December

August 3, 2015

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 acquires Teletrax from Civolution

August 2, 2015

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 provides live feed for President Obamas Africa visit

August 1, 2015

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 ...

Paywizard receives funding boost, appoints Andrew Burke Chairman

July 30, 2015

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 ...

BeIN Sports awarded MENA Olympics rights from 2018-24

July 29, 2015

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 ...

Du wins Cannes Lions for two consecutive years

July 27, 2015

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 ...

Media Links appoints John Smith as Head of EMEA

July 27, 2015

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 ...

Imagine Communications appoints Chief Marketing Officer

July 26, 2015

Ramnik Kamo, CMO, Imagine Communications.Imagine Communications has appointed Ramnik Kamo to the position of Chief Marketing Officer. In addition to overseeing Imagine Communications overall marketing strategy, ...

Extron Now Shipping 15″ TouchLink Pro Touchpanels

July 23, 2015

Extron Electronics has announced the immediate availability of the TLP Pro 1520TG TouchLink Pro Touchpanel. This configurable 15 tabletop touchpanel has a capacitive, edge-to-edge glass touchscreen; and, as with all TouchLink ...

FOX News Channel uses Quicklink Skype TX

by Staff Writer

July 22, 2015

FOX News Channel has recently used the Quicklink Skype TX solution for news poll interviews on the American election programme Fox with Friends with the Former Chief of Staff John ...

Videlio – Cap Cine and 2P2L manage the production of Télévision du Festival

July 21, 2015

VIDELIO - Cap Ciné, a long-standing supplier of post-production solutions, has provided services to the Télévision du Festival for many years. To make this challenge possible, VIDELIO - Cap Ciné has chosen Avid as a ...

Elemental powers Sky Go and NOW TV

July 19, 2015