The LTA and the Tennis Channel struck a four-year deal to stream coverage of its grass court tour events at Nottingham, Birmingham, The Queen’s Club and Eastbourne. The deal will give Tennis Channel the rights to every court at the events, with complete coverage of both singles and doubles competitions of the tour level events. […]
Research from audit, tax and consultancy firm RSM UK has found that almost all media businesses surveyed (99 per cent) have made redundancies over the past 12 months. Despite this, more than half (60 per cent) have found recruitment challenging over the past year. Mandy Girder, head of media industry, RSM UK, commented: “As new […]
UK production partnership company Nest Productions has announced a new partnership with Greenred Media. Nest will supply production and company infrastructure for all company productions. Derek Drennan and Stew Batt, veteran factual entertainment producers and co-founders of Nest, are joining Greenred’s board as Managing Directors. Nest’s Marisa Erftemeijer and Floury Crum are also joining the […]
Disguise has announced the next evolution of its hardware solutions with the launch of the new generation of EX media servers, following the recently launched RX III real-time render node, opening up even wider access to the world’s most advanced live visual experience platform. Providing a ruggedised solution for pre-rendered video playback at any scale, […]
Fuse Media has announced the addition of two newly formed roles to its executive leadership team. Effective immediately, Patrick Courtney has been named Chief Business Officer and Marc Leonard has been named Chief Content Officer. They will continue to report to Fuse Media’s Chairman and CEO Miguel Roggero. As Chief Business Officer, Courtney will shape […]
Global Academy, a media school founded by Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, has launched a new alternative to University for young creatives in Manchester who want to pursue a career in the creative industries. The course is based in Global’s North West broadcast centre and is free for school and college leavers aged 18. […]
Adeia, a company known for its innovations in entertainment experiences, has announced that Altimedia, a provider of solutions for managing advanced media services, has signed a multi-year licence renewal for access to Adeia’s media intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Altimedia offers a user experience (UX) platform to pay-TV and digital media service providers in the Korean […]
In advance of the 2024 NAB Show, 2G Digital Post, a specialist in media services, localisation and content quality control, announces their partnership with XL8, a player in AI-powered machine translation & AI localisation tools, designed and built from the ground up for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Combining 2G Digital’s captioning, localisation and […]
Backlight, a media and entertainment software solution provider, has announced the appointment of Kathleen Barrett as its Chief Executive Officer. After more than a decade of leading video businesses, Barrett most recently served as CEO of IAC subsidiary Mosaic Group, one of the largest non-gaming app developers in the world with over 40 products and […]
Advanced Systems Group has announces the availability of the company’s Diaquest plugin for direct communication between Adobe Premiere desktops and the NVIDIA Holoscan for Media platform. The plugin allows for real-time audio and video output from a Premiere desktop (virtual or metal) into Holoscan for Media signal flow, as well as recording directly within Premiere. […]