International News

Marking six years since it launched a Polish language service, streaming giant Netflix has announced the creation of an engineering hub in Poland, based in its recently opened Warsaw office. According to Vice President of Engineering, Deborah Black, "Our engineers in Poland will help build the products that our internal...

World View, the stratospheric exploration and space tourism company, recently announced a collaboration with Grammy-winning duo The Chainsmokers, hosting them on a World View space tourism flight to become the first musical artists to perform at the edge-of-space. “We have always dreamed of going to space and are stoked to...

The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) and Qwilt announce significant progress on the initiative to upgrade NCTC member networks across the United States, providing high-quality content delivery and better digital experiences for up to 34 million households in the US. In November 2021, NCTC and Qwilt launched a joint initiative...

Mobile TV Group (MTVG), the live broadcast technology services company, has announced its MTVG Edge series, a new edge computing production solution. MTVG Edge delivers MTVG’s high-quality live production solutions for small and mid-size productions, anywhere, with a minimal onsite equipment footprint and a much lower cost. MTVG Edge embraces...

Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) recently announced it is partnering with NBCUniversal Local to bring several NBC local news channels to The Roku Channel. Starting today, the channels will be available for users to access through The Roku Channel’s Live TV Guide. Through the partnership, NBCUniversal Local will bring local...

The leading television stations serving the Shreveport television market recently began broadcasting with NextGen TV, a new digital broadcast technology. The launch includes KTBS-TV (ABC), KSLA (CBS), KMSS-TV (Fox), KTAL-TV (NBC), KPXJ (CW) and KSHV-TV (MyNet). Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet and digital apps, NextGen TV...

DISH Network Corporation has selected Rakuten Symphony’s observability framework (OBF) to collect telemetry data from all network functions that will enable the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to operate and optimise the DISH 5G network. DISH is adding Rakuten Symphony to its roster of modern telco infrastructure vendors...

It has been an eventful start into the month of November for Lawo winning two industry awards that recognise significant and promising new products and technologies. First off was the “2021 NAB Show Product of the Year Award” in the category “IT Networking/Infrastructure & Security” for Lawo’s HOME Management Platform...

U.S. President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in key communications roles: Jessica Rosenworcel, Nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; Gigi Sohn, Nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission; and Alan Davidson, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Communications and...

International news channel France 24 has launched on livestreaming service BOLT+ in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish. With this latest distribution agreement, BOLT+ subscribers will now have access to France 24 channels on their phones and tablets. The BOLT+ app is also available on Hisense smart TVs, making France...

US-based Asian American television network, Crossings TV, has made a foray into next-gen cloud playout with Etere leading the migration. Etere delivered a seamless integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) across the station's end-to-end workflows including MAM, scheduling, playout, ad insertion and archive. Crossings TV tapped Etere's Ecosystem to manage...