5 September 2014
| France 24 has launched a new app compatible with TiVo set-top boxes and is now available to 400,000 ONO TiVo subscribers in Spain and over 2,3 million Virgin Media TiVo customers in the UK.
Developed by DotScreen, this new application gives free access to all France 24 programmes on demand in French and English (news bulletins, weather forecast, reports, debates, sports, etc.) for the three weeks following their initial broadcast.
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Accessible from the ONO homepage of the TiVo platform, this application also offers France 24 live streams in French and English as well as a quick overview of the headlines of the day through the ‘News in Pictures’ section. On Virgin Media TiVo, the France 24 app offers the same service and is available via the apps and games menu as well as the Red Button on the linear channel.
Thanks to this new app, France 24 strengthens its presence throughout Spain and the United Kingdom, deploying this new interactive service, in addition to its linear distribution. (Source: France 24 press release)
France 24 is available onVirgin Media in English and French (channels 624 and 832) and in English on ONO (channel 138).
5 September 2014
Eurosport and BDO Events, the commercial partner and exclusive sales agent of the British Darts Organisation, are delighted to announce that Eurosport will broadcast five tournaments from four countries this Autumn.
Eurosport has acquired the worldwide rights, including sub-licensing rights, and will broadcast the tournaments in its European and Asia-Pacific markets.
Eurosport’s relationship with BDO Events was first forged with the showing of all three days of the inaugural BDO Events’ BDO World Trophy in February 2014, which was held at the iconic Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.
The featured tournaments in the new agreement include this year’s Winmau World Masters and also The British Open, traditional season curtain-raiser, Top of Ghent, Northern Ireland Open and Romanian Open. They will be covered live and delayed on Eurosport and Eurosport 2.
Dates and venues of these events are as follows:
British Open: 19 – 21 September 2014, The Spa Bridlington
Romanian Open: 28 September 2014, Bulevardul Nicolae Balcescu 4, Bucharest, Romania
Winmau World Masters: 9 – 12 October 2014, Hull City Hall
Tops of Ghent: 17-19 October 2014 (venue tbc), Belgium
Northern Ireland Open: 7-9 November 2014, Bellini’s 25, Merchants Quay Newry, Co Down
5 September 2014
Deutsche Welle (DW) Director General Peter Limbourg has held talks on bilateral cooperation with senior representatives of Chinese broadcasters during his visit to Beijing.
From August 27 to 29, 2014, Limbourg met in the Chinese capital with, among others, the vice president of the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) as well as the presidents of the state educational broadcaster, China Education Television (CETV) and CCTV’s nationwide digital platform (CDP). Talks with the director general of China Radio International were also on the agenda.
Limbourg said the goal was “to present the journalistic offerings of Germany’s international broadcaster and to examine possibilities for an extended cooperation.” He said the discussions took place in “a good atmosphere and were very constructive.”
Various collaborative projects have been agreed upon with CCTV with the aim of building further cultural ties between the two countries. Both sides are looking into possible co-productions in the fields of music and business. A contract was signed with the cultural broadcaster SHTV, for the sale of more than 100 hours of DW Transtel programs. The cooperation will be expanded through a Chinese edition of DW’s weekly cultural magazine Arts.21. CDP will continue to broadcast the Chinese adaptation of DW’s lifestyle magazine Euromaxx for another three years. The program is available in 140 million Chinese households, via the Chinese World Geographic Channel, and is also accessible as video-on-demand at www.tv.cn.
Limbourg discussed, with Beijing TV, DW’s possible participation in the Beijing International Documentary Festival. The station recently acquired the license for the purchase of DW Transtel programs. Since June 2014, the educational broadcaster CETV has also taken 150 hours of DW Transtel programs. The programs are among the most popular documentaries in Beijing.
On September 4, Limbourg addressed representatives of both German and Chinese media at the 5th Sino-German Media Forum of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. In his speech under the title “Fight or Cooperate? The Global TV Networks and Their Roles in the World,” Limbourg called for the lifting of the Chinese blockade of DW and firmly rejected all censorship measures. Earlier he had held extensive talks with Chinese officials on the theme of press freedom. (Source: DW press release)
4 September 2014
Regional broadcaster, Channel NewsAsia, today announced
plans to expand its Kuala Lumpur bureau to operate a High Definition (HD) satellite studio. This will
boost the channel’s production capability in Malaysia and its 24-hour rolling news coverage of Asia.
The studio will be directly connected to the channel’s headquarters in Singapore and take “live”
interviews with guests in a studio environment.
Ms Debra Soon, Managing Director of Channel NewsAsia noted that when the channel was
launched 15 years ago, one of its first bureaus was established in Kuala Lumpur. She said,
“Singapore and Malaysia are strongly linked by history, kinship and friendship. The channel has
made it a priority to report on developments in Malaysia first-hand, not just political and economic
news, but also on its people, society and culture. Malaysia will play a significant role in the world’s
fastest growing region, and we will play a role in helping the rest of the world understand Malaysia”.
Ms Soon made the announcement at Channel NewsAsia’s Malaysia Business Insights in Kuala
Lumpur today.
The channel’s premier regional business forum gathered government and corporate leaders to
discuss Malaysia’s role in the global economy, and the challenges facing companies as they head
towards the vision of making Malaysia a developed economy. Delegates shared insights on its
theme, “Sustaining Growth and Development in Malaysia”, and the structural reforms being
introduced to drive growth.
Senator Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, who presented
the keynote address, said “Malaysia is restructuring to evolve towards a high-income nation and
create an economy that is more resilient, globally competitive and sustainable. Within this
framework, the coming together of key policy makers and corporate leaders at Channel NewsAsia’s
Malaysia Business Insights allows for keen dialogue and facilitates greater understanding by the
private sector. This will enable closer and greater collaboration between the public and private
sectors.”
Malaysia Business Insights was moderated by Channel NewsAsia’s Malaysia
Bureau Chief, Melissa Goh, and featured speakers on two panels:
Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria, Secretary General, Ministry of International Trade and
Industry
Datin Roslina Zainal, Vice President, Regulatory Economics & Planning Division, Tenaga
Nasional Berhad
Mr Philip Rao, Senior Partner, EY Malaysia
Mr Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah, Group President/CEO, Felda Global Ventures Holdings
Berhad
Mr. Teh Kee Sin, National President, SMI Association of Malaysia
Mr. Christopher Ong – Managing Director, DHL Express Malaysia & Brunei
Mr. Heng Huck Lee – President, FREPENCA / Chief Executive Director, Globetronics
Technology Berhad
Mr. Manoj Menon – Senior Partner & Asia Pacific Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan Asia
Pacific
Malaysia Business Insights is the latest in the leadership series hosted by Channel NewsAsia
across Asia. The forums have travelled to Jakarta, Bangkok, Yangon, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh
City, with the aim of establishing stronger linkages across Asia and promoting deeper
understanding of the business climate and practices in the host countries.
4 September 2014
Vizrt Ltd. announced today a deal worth USD 470,000 for the implementation of broadcast graphics products with Media Studio Company Ltd. in Thailand. Media Studio Company Ltd. is the news production agency used by Channel 7 Thailand. The new purchase is for the upgrade of their currently used systems to HD in addition to a new HD video wall system.
The deal includes an HD upgrade for their three-camera Viz Virtual Studio system. Designers in the creative department will also get an HD upgrade to their Viz Artist workstations. In the studio, a new video wall control system with multiple HD Viz Engines was purchased. Viz Engine is Vizrt’s real-time rendering engine.
