The international news channel is now available via cableto 1.1 million Indian homes in Delhi and itsregion.
Broadcastin luxury hotels* in India since 2013,Euronewshas made significant advances in the country, through the signing of four distribution agreements with regional leading cable networks covering Delhi and the suburb of Noida.
The English service of Euronews is now part of the basic digital line-up of the cable operators Star Broad Band, Satellite Channels Pvt Ltd, Home Cable and Neo News Network, received in 1.1 million homes.
* Euronews began its distribution in India in 2013 through agreements with the most prestigious hotels, including international chains such as Radisson, Hyatt and Crown Plaza.
Over 10,500 rooms in some 50 hotels around the country receive Euronews.
… and mobile devices
Euronewsand Samsung in India
Samsung has chosento pre-loadEuronewson its new operating system, Tizen, which made its world premiere in India.
The Euronews Tizen app is available on the new Samsung Z1 smartphone, exclusively on the Indian market since 14th January 2015, and later in Bangladesh.
This development is part of a global agreement with the South Korean company.
Euronews is also present in India, as elsewhere in the world, thanks to its digital distribution via all of its apps for connected devices, its website, YouTube channels and social networks.
Arnaud Verlhac, WorldwideDistribution Director ofEuronews stated: “Asia and the Indian sub-continent are a key geographic area for Euronews’ development. The obvious growth potential of India makes the country a strategic and necessary place to do business. These recent distribution agreements are the result of three years of work by the entire team and testify to the value of our objective editorial approach and the quality of our programmes and magazines.”
Sabrina Mimouni, Regional Distribution Manager Asia-Pacific added: “Launching Euronews in the Delhi area is the first visible sign of Euronews’ arrival on this market which is particularly difficult to penetrate. I am delighted by the confidence the four big cable operators have shown in us. In just a few weeks, they put Euronews in their basic line-up so that the largest number of subscribers would have access.” (Source: Euronews press release)
EditMate, the new solution for editing, provides project management extension to Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Features and benefits of arvato Systems’ latest innovation will be presented at Cabsat in Dubai
Broadcasters like those attending the CABSAT 2015 in Dubai face a challenge familiar to media companies across the world: Ever-increasing demands for efficiency and quality coincide with the need to move to a new non-linear editing platform, all while allowing users to benefit from the existing MAM installation. The EditMate solution is presented at Cabsat 2015 in Dubai from 10 to 12 March 2015.
EditMate was developed to dramatically increase productivity and quality control in environments where editors share networked access to projects and media files. With an optional integration to a MAM system, additional workflow control, data sharing, access control, and other advanced functions are also available.
The new tool is an elegant editing project management solution that enables collaborative editing, project sharing and easy-to-use management of all project related files within Adobe Premiere Pro CC. arvato Systems’ newest product is fully integrated as a Premiere Pro CC plugin and is an optional component for VPMS, arvato Systems’ popular MAM solution. EditMate tracks all your editing projects and also includes features for automated metadata import, housekeeping, user rights, template management and efficient import of multiple projects.
As a plugin inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC, the intuitive EditMate user interface offers easily accessible tabs for functions like Search, Create, Save, and Check In. Based on system configuration and templates, required and optional metadata are populated either by users or automatically filled in from a connected external source, such as arvato Systems’ MAM solution, VPMS.
EditMate manages all your editing projects securely, and users from any location can access projects and their related media files. To prevent disaster scenarios, EditMate manages stored AutoSaves, and users can restore their own or other projects directly through their EditMate window in Premiere. Projects that are controlled by EditMate can be locked, and, when connected for instance to a MAM system, the related media files can be flagged to prevent deletion as long as the project is active.
Administrators have the power to configure various aspects of EditMate, including metadata definitions, searchable metadata, hold-back times, templates and standard project “collections”, presets for automatically created project titles, and more.
EditMate changes the way media companies can think about and work with editing projects: From isolated “editing bays”, to networked and collaborative environments where tasks are completed by quality-focused, collaborative teams.
arvato Systems is at CABSAT 2015 in Dubai from 10 to 12 March where the company and its partner Qvest Media showcase its innovative industry-specific solutions for managing and monetizing the digital transformation at stand E3-10.
SES has announced that Christophe De Hauwer has been appointed by the Board of Directors of SES as Chief Development Officer (CDO) and member of the company’s Executive Committee, effective 1 August 2015.
Christophe De Hauwer will succeed Gerson Souto, the company’s current CDO, who has decided to step down from his position for personal reasons and relocate to Brazil, his home country. Gerson will continue to advise SES and work with the Executive Committee on development projects in Latin America and elsewhere.
Christophe will officially take up the position of CDO on 1 August 2015. He has been with the Company for over 10 years, holding several positions of responsibility in the areas of Strategic Marketing, Strategic and Business Planning and Corporate Development. In his current role of Senior Vice President, Fleet Development and Yield Management, Christophe oversees the overall optimization of the entire SES satellite fleet and its future development.
Christophe also played an instrumental role in the acquisition of New Skies (2005), the GE share redemption (2007) and the investment in O3b Networks (2009). Since 2010, he has served as a board member of O3b Networks. Prior to joining SES, Christophe was a consultant, first at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and later at Deloitte & Touche. Christophe is a Belgian national and holds an Engineering Degree and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Brussels in Belgium.
Gerson Souto has been with SES for more than 16 years and has been an Executive Committee member and Chief Development Officer since 2011. Previously, he was a member of the Management Committee of SES NEW SKIES and later of SES WORLD SKIES.
Karim Michel Sabbagh, President and CEO of SES, stated: “We respect and understand Gerson’s decision and are pleased that he has agreed to continue to support SES in a strategic advisory role. Gerson has been instrumental in SES’s global expansion and integration across its various business units. Under his leadership, SES has articulated a holistic and winning strategy which is now serving as a platform to focus on go-to-market and investment efforts, as well as the capabilities development agenda. We wish Gerson all the very best for the future. In appointing Christophe De Hauwer, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee have ensured a strong succession and a flawless transition. Christophe’s deep knowledge of the industry and of SES, as well as his management skills, will help us to further deliver on our growth potential.” (Source: SES press release)
Broadcast industry conferences can fall into the trap of becoming mere forums for insiders sharing old ideas with other insiders – and at their worst, an echo chamber removed from real world concerns. One of the goals of AIB’s #iamabroadcaster Global Media Summit last month was to look outside established wisdom to the real world and real audiences the broadcast industry serves.
TIMA (The International Media Associates) partnered with AIB to provide a series of on-the-street interviews with young people in Washington DC, London, Paris, and Teheran, providing a unique insight into how the 21st century expects to consume its media.
It should surprise few that conventional, linear tv viewing was far down the list of priorities of the next generation. When asked what was their primary means of consuming news and entertainment content, most favored the computer, tablet and phone. “I watch television a little bit in the morning, but that’s all.”
“Internet. I barely use the radio and the television. I practically only use the Internet,” said one Parisian man. And in London, the responses were similar: “Online, on my phone. I really don’t watch TV at all.”
The responses were no different in Teheran: “I don’t have such a great relationship with the TV. I don’t put much time on it.”
On the face of it, this would sound like a death knell for broadcasters. And it is, if you still believe that broadcasting means linear distribution to a TV or radio. But TIMA’s vox pops revealed that the hunger for content has gone through the roof. Reliance on mobile technologies means that audiences formerly tied to viewing hours in the morning or evening can now access content any time, anywhere.
Said one Parisian “What is practical with the Internet is that you can do it whenever you want, so I do it when I want all day long.”
The trick for broadcasters – for anyone distributing content through the internet – is not the demand or lack of audience, but getting that audience to pay for the content.
When asked how willing they were to pay for content, some of the interviewed young people echoed a Parisian responder “The Internet is basically the contrary of this. We can share our information freely and as much as we want with no monitisation on it. So, no.”
Many already had subscriptions to services like Netflix and Spotify – and a few said they might be willing to pay extra for some premium content.
An American responder said, “We’re so used to having such easy and ready access to it, that for it to become a pay structure, I think that would be really upsetting. I’d find ways around paying.”
Interestingly, the young people in Teheran expressed far more willingness to pay for quality content online than their western counterparts.
The entire collection of these #iamabroadcaster Global Vox Pops can be viewed on our YouTube page:
Euronews’ Supervisory Board, which met on Tuesday in Paris, has mandated the Chairman of its Executive Board, Michael Peters, to hold exclusive negotiations on an equity-stake acquisition by one of the Sawiris’ family’s companies, headed by Naguib Sawiris. With a €35 million capital injection, the company would own 53% of the international news channel.
Established in 1993 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Euronews is currently owned by 21 public television channels and 3 local authorities. Available in 13 languages, Euronews provides rolling coverage of world news produced by 600 journalists from over 30 countries. Euronews is a leading independent media hub, reaching over 420 million homes in 156 countries. It delivers a complete range of products, including websites, mobile applications, smart TV and radio.
To continue to lead in a highly competitive newsmedia environment, an ambitious strategic development plan was set up in 2014 with the unanimous support of its longstanding shareholders. The Strategic plan, based on the heritage and strong European values of the channel, focuses on four areas: content, non-linear innovation, brandvalue and diversification. The shareholders agreed to the strong growth potential presented through the plan, whose implementation requires significant additional funds. Based on this conviction, the shareholders decided to open Euronews’ capital to an independent investor. Banque Lazard has been appointed to drive the search for a new partner from within the countries affiliated with the EBU. Amongst the huge interest received, the offer made by Naguib Sawiris has been selected as best suiting the entire scope of requirements.
“Throughout the past decade, Euronews has truly become a bridge between nations. On the basis of its European perspective, the channel has attracted increasing interest from countries neighbouring the European Union. This makes Euronews unique.” commented Michael Peters. “Today we want to accelerate our growth. The arrival of Naguib Sawiris would be a tremendous asset to Euronews, as this investment would allow a quick implementation of our development plan, while maintaining our European public mission heritage.”
“The public shareholders who support Euronews since over 20 years remain strongly committed to this unique media experience in Europe”, added Paolo Garimberti, President of the Supervisory Board. “We trust that the combination of public and private shareholding will be beneficial for the future of Euronews, as it has already been in the past with Générale Occidentale and with ITN.”
“The Strategic plan for Euronews is based on a strong vision of the future of TV in the current media environment. A plan I believe in and I do fully support”, declared Naguib Sawiris. “I deeply appreciate the editorial values which are strongly attached to the Euronews brand and I will be committed to carefully respect the editorial independence and the mission of general interest of Euronews”.
This growth project fits with Euronews’ European DNA, in line with the partnership agreement signed with the European Commission.
The stake acquisition will only be approved by the Shareholders’ General Assembly after the full completion of the current exclusive negotiations. (Source: Euronews press release)
