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First Ultra HD (4K) for Europe
THE CHANNEL | MEDIA MARKETS
As the television and cinema
industries accelerate their
progression towards Ultra HD
(4K), Eutelsat Communications
has launched a dedicated
demonstration Ultra HD channel
for Europe on the Eutelsat 10A
satellite. The first transmissions
of content filmed in 4K started
in January.
Delivering a resolution of
eight million pixels, four times
the resolution of HDTV, Ultra HD
(4K) marks the next big leap
forward in the immersive viewing
experience.
Eutelsat’s new channel is
designed to benefit all actors in
the broadcasting chain who want
to acquire expertise in 4K,
Journalists killed while covering
the violence in Syria made up the
majority of news media casualties
in 2012 in one of the bloodiest
years on record. Preliminary
findings by the International
News Safety Institute show that
at least 156 journalists and other
media staff were killed because
of their work. The global death
toll is the third worst on record
since INSI began in 2003.
News crews have faced
unprecedented challenges while
trying to report on the unfolding
events in Syria, with journalists
killed in crossfire or targeted by
government or opposition forces.
Other journalists have been
attacked, tortured, kidnapped
and threatened.
It has been the deadliest year on
record for journalists in Somalia,
with 18 media workers killed –
all of whom murdered. Many of
these cases were linked to
militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab.
The third most dangerous
country is Nigeria, where 12
media workers died. Seven of
these were staffers for Nigerian
newspaper ThisDay who were
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including production companies,
pay-TV operators, rights owners
and TV set manufacturers. The
new channel operates in
progressive mode at 50 frames
per second. It is encoded in
MPEG-4 and transmitted at 40
Mbit/s in four Quad HD streams.
Eutelsat is partnering with
ATEME, a video compression
solution provider to the
broadcast industry, for the
transmissions that are uplinked
to the Eutelsat 10A satellite
from its teleport in Rambouillet,
near Paris.
Eutelsat’s Commercial
Director Jean-François
Leprince-Ringuet said that early
and close collaboration between
all players in the broadcast
chain is key for this new
technology to succeed.
Global
death toll
Bloomberg
TV + Idea
Bloomberg Television has
entered into a partnership in
Indonesia with Idea Group, a
Jakarta-based media and
strategic communication holding
company, with plans to launch
Bloomberg TV Indonesia in early
2013. Presented in the local
language Bahasa Indonesia, the
new channel will bring
Bloomberg’s market-moving
news alongside locally-produced
content to the world’s fourth
largest country by population and
Southeast Asia’s largest
economy. Bloomberg TV
Indonesia will partner with
existing broadcast entities and
air on FTA, pay-TV, internet and
mobile platforms.
Gary Groenheim, Commercial
Director of Bloomberg TV, Asia-
Pacific said the company had
long identified Indonesia as a
strategic emerging market and
with Idea Group as a partner aim
to take business news from its
traditionally narrow and
specialist confines to a broader,
mainstream audience.
Idea Group CEO Ziva
Narendra Arifin said the
partnership is based on a shared
mission of providing locally
relevant, influential business
content that will enhance the
lives of Indonesia’s rapidly
growing consumer class, which
has limited access to business
management education.
The new venture
complements Bloomberg
Businessweek’s existing
partnership with Idea Group and
continues Bloomberg TV’s
momentum in Asia, following the
launch of a state-of the-art
broadcast studio in Singapore
and of Bloomberg TV Mongolia.
killed when suicide bombers of
the Islamist sect Boko Haram
detonated explosives in Abuja
and Kaduna.
Pakistan and Mexico were the
fourth and fifth deadliest
countries, with 10 and 11
fatalities. Journalism was one of
the most dangerous professions
in Russia, with instances of
threats to reporters growing last
year.
The preliminary findings were
compiled in liaison with INSI's
regional contacts, the IFJ and the
International Press Institute.