18 January 2011
Eurosport and DFL Sports Enterprises GmbH have extended their current partnership (covering seasons 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012) for three additional seasons: 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.
The deal renews Eurosport’s exclusive TV and digital rights, including sub-licensing rights, for all matches of Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 in 22 territories in the Nordic countries as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. Bundesliga is the elite German championship and Bundesliga 2 the second-tier of German football.
The 22 territories included in the agreement are: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
Exclusive TV coverage on Eurosport 2 and Eurosport 2 HD
Eurosport 2 has established itself amongst sports fans as the channel for premium Bundesliga football action. Continuing on this success, Eurosport 2 will offer exclusive and extensive coverage of the upcoming seasons. Coverage will include five LIVE matches per week, a weekly highlights programme, dedicated magazine shows, interviews and expert insight from top consultants. Eurosport 2’s commitment to top quality production, including high definition, will continue to offer viewers the highest standard of broadcast.
Launched in 2005, Eurosport 2 is today one of the fastest growing pay TV channels in Europe reaching 48 million homes in 47 countries. The channel is also available in HD in the Nordic countries as well as in Central and Eastern Europe, and features over 2000 hours of LIVE sporting action.
All LIVE Bundesliga action will also be available in the licensed territories on the Eurosport Player, the group’s online subscriber video service.
Laurent-Eric Le Lay, Chairman, Eurosport Group says, “We are delighted to renew our partnership with DFL and to continue offering fans across Nordic, Eastern and Central European territories the best of German football. Eurosport 2 has been broadcasting the Bundesliga since 2009 and in only 2 seasons our expert coverage and promotion have significantly contributed to increased reach and ratings outside of Germany and we are convinced that Bundesliga has even more potential. The extension of our partnership with DFL confirms Eurosport 2’s strategy of acquisition of premium rights and enhances the regional offer of the channel.”
Jörg Daubitzer, Managing Director, DFL Sports Enterprises adds:
We are pleased about the prolongation of our successful cooperation. Eurosport is an established and also highly appreciated partner who presents Bundesliga as a premium product on a very high level. This agreement covers key territories and meets the growing international significance and value of Bundesliga.
18 January 2011
AIB is continuing its work on behalf of members worldwide in the area of
mobile.
The Association is a Gold Media Partner at the forthcoming
Mobile World
Congress, taking place in Barcelona between 14 and 17 February, with copies
of the new mobile-focus edition of The Channel available to the tens of
thousands visitors to this major international event.
AIB is also organising a top-level networking dinner for its members
to introduce a range of opinion-formers in the mobile industry to content owners
and other AIB members.
“Working to forge relationships is one of the AIB’s key activities,” says AIB
CEO Simon Spanswick. “We know that our private, member-only networking events
start conversations that lead to deals and that’s one of our goals at this
year’s Mobile World Congress.”
AIB provides a wide range of services to its global membership base – contact
AIB head office on +44 20 7993 2557 to find out more, or download our
information brochure here
(this is a 3MB file, so allow a few seconds for the download).
18 January 2011
TVN Agency in Poland and The Associated Press have agreed to share video archives as part of a content distribution agreement. For the global sales collaboration, TVN Agency, department of commercial Polish television network, and AP Archive, the commercial video footage arm of AP, will promote each others content, starting in the first quarter of 2011.
Cooperation with the AP is the finest confirmation of our role and quality of services offered on the Polish news distribution market, Tomasz Nabakowski, TVN Agency CEO, said. The cooperation is possible thanks to the high quality of content and services we provide and our flexible approach towards clients needs.
AP Archive has material dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. With an archive of over 700,000 stories, it is rich in its coverage of events, war and conflict, politics, disasters, environment, culture, social history, human interest, science, entertainment and sport. The collection is updated daily with the global news coverage of AP Television News and contains footage from many major content providers.
Alwyn Lindsey, AP’s director of international archives, said: Poland is a really exciting market for our content and we believe that TVN is exceptionally well positioned to grow our sales there. Equally, TVN’s archive is very impressive and we look forward to exposing it to a global audience.
Archived video footage from the two media organizations will be made available on the TVN Agency website at www.agency.tvn.pl and on the AP Archive website at www.aparchive.com.
TVN Agency will market APs video archive to customers in Poland while AP will market TVNs content in the global market outside of Poland.
Launched in 2009, TVN Agency is primarily a distributor of video news content prepared on the basis of resources from TVN Groups television channels: TVN24, TVN, TVN CNBC, TVN Meteo, TVN Warszawa and tvn24.pl web service. TVN Agency provides its services chiefly in Poland and in neighboring countries of the CEE region. Nevertheless, the company has offered broadcast services during events taking place in other parts of the world, e.g. during summer Olympic Games in Beijing or winter Olympics in Vancouver where TVN Agency was one out of two companies offering global signal uplink and content delivery. TVN Agency has at its disposal archives of content from TVN thematic channels and other productions TVN was involved in. Access to materials including video news items, pictures and thematic compilations is available from TVN Agency’s website at www.agency.tvn.pl. TVN Agency additionally owns unique database of aerial footage in HD quality including over 1,500 minutes of materials produced using Robinson R44 Raven II Newscopter HD. We offer also broadcast services, such as SNG trucks’ rental, OB-Vans, ENG equipment, R44 Raven II Newscopter HD and virtual set. Moreover, with transmission over satellite and fiber networks we offer playout services and teleport. TVN Agency also offers television production, creation of multimedia resources for Internet productions, aerial footage, rental of production and post-production facilities. Our services are offered to foreign media companies: newsgathering organizations (we are already working with Reuters and APTN), TV stations (we have offered services to CNN, BBC, Euronews, ZDF, Russia Today and Al Jazeera, among others), production companies (we have established business relationship with INS, Gloway, Overon, Flying Colors and Mediaset) whereas in Poland our services are of benefit to Internet portals, publishing companies, television producers, commercial companies and public administration.
18 January 2011
For the launch of its new look and the switch to a 16/9 format, euronews presents a broad range of projects which will take the channel to a new dimension.
To start the year, euronews is switching to a 16/9 format and revamping the channel: a new on-air look, new pace and more reasons for viewers to tune in to euronews.
In 2011, the channel will also add programmes, with the arrival of new faces to the multicultural newsroom of euronews. Separately, two well-known journalists on the European audiovisual scene, Alex Taylor and Chris Burns, will join the channel to help take it to a whole ‘new dimension’.
11 news desks in 2011: euronews is expanding its editorial coverage and network around the world. Based in Lyon, with recently opened desks in Brussels, London, Cairo and Doha, euronews will open permanent desks in Paris, Kiev (local journalists), Istanbul, Dubai, Washington and Beijing. The Brussels office will be a key feature of the new organisation, as it becomes the first international news team to operate in the capital of Europe.
Ali Sheikholeslami is appointed as euronews permanent correspondent in London. He is in charge of covering world stories, as well as reporting on events occurring across the UK, producing TV packages and multimedia stories for the euronews website.
11 languages in 2011: euronews will launch its new service in Ukrainian, around the clock, 7 days a week, as of 24th August.
In 2011, euronews will deliver the right content to the right place at the right time:
– increased partnerships with YouTube and Dailymotion: new channels, more availability on catch-up TV in the “Shows” section of YouTube;
– euronews and UGC (User Generated Content): via its NoCommentTV application for iPhone, euronews offers UGC possibilities with “MyNoComment”; in partnership with Google, the channel will broadcast a weekly programme “Trends” which reports on keywords most requested by internet users in Europe;
– launch in one month of the euronews live application for iPhone, iPad and Android;
– launch of the full euronews application for iPad;
– launch of euronews radio, an internet radio station;
– launch of euronews display, euronews in a 100% visual format designed for busy places such as train stations and airports;
– euronews in flight: an exclusive agreement has been signed with Air France, details of which will be presented soon, jointly with Air France;
– euronews on internet-connected TV sets: following on the first agreement with Panasonic, euronews is now in the process of signing agreements with the six top manufacturers, including Toshiba, Sony and Philips.
All of these projects which reflect the new dimension of the international news channel will be presented at a series of press conferences in Paris, London, Moscow, Berlin, Frankfurt and Madrid, with Philippe Cayla, Chairman of the Executive Board, Michael Peters, Managing Director of the Executive Board, and Lucian Sârb, Director of News and Programmes.
12 January 2011
JVC has announced the world’s first consumer camcorder to offer 3D recording in Full HD, thanks to a new JVC-developed high-speed processor that can produce two simultaneous Full HD images.
The new GS-TD1 uses two camera lenses and two 3.32 megapixel CMOS sensors – one for each lens – to capture three-dimensional images much the same way that human eyes work. JVC’s new high-speed imaging engine simultaneously processes the two Full HD images – left and right images at 1920 x 1080i – within that single chip. The newly developed “LR Independent Format” makes the GS-TD1 the world’s first consumer-oriented camcorder capable of 3D shooting in Full HD. JVC’s new camcorder offers other shooting modes as well, including the widely used “Side-by-Side Format” for AVCHD (3D) and conventional AVCHD (2D) shooting.
