With Black Friday just days away – always a huge event in the sale of TV sets – a report from analysts at KB Securities says that with Samsung entering the OLED market next year there could well be a shortage of OLED panels. LG Display (LGD) is the sole supplier of the high-end TV […]
KT SAT, Korea’s leading satellite communication operator, offering services to global customers and partners, has chosen DataMiner as the future-proof end-to-end multi-vendor management system to upgrade their teleport station operation. KT SAT made this strategic decision in order to support their transition towards new technologies while integrating their legacy infrastructure connected through multiple types of […]
ATEME, a specialist in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced that Korean broadcaster KBS has selected ATEME’s Kyrion encoders to update its legacy infrastructure, enabling broadcasting in high-quality MPEG-2 HD. As the largest broadcaster in Korea, KBS operates a wide range of platforms to deliver nationwide terrestrial service […]
Net advertising expenditure in Asia Pacific, calculated after discounts, declined 4.3 per cent Y/Y in 2020, according to the Asia Pacific Advertising Trends 2021 report from Media Partners Asia (MPA). Pandemic-induced macroeconomic uncertainty softened advertiser demand in H1 2020. As economies rebound, recovery is underway with ad spend forecast to exceed $200 billion by end […]
With reports of digital piracy increasing by more than 60 per cent in some countries during the past 12 months, intergovernmental crimefighting body Interpol is launching a new project to tackle this fast-growing crime area. With €2.7 million funding from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, the five-year Interpol Stop Online Piracy (I-SOP) […]
Sportradar and the Korea Professional Football League will launch a new OTT platform for the international market ahead of the 2021 season, which kicks off on February 27th. The new development, K LEAGUE TV, will have content in both English and Korean, a first for the K League, and will have all matches from the […]
WWE and IB Sports have announced a new multi-year deal to continue delivering WWE’s weekly flagship programming live and in Korean. In addition to airing Raw and SmackDown, IB Sports will now offer NXT as part of the expanded partnership, marking the first time it will be available in South Korea on broadcast television. IB Sports will […]