Shen Haixiong has been appointed as the new head of China Central Television (CCTV), the 12th director of the state television broadcaster.
The 50-year-old worked for 26 years at Xinhua News Agency and later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Head of the Guangdong Publicity Department from 2015.
Shen succeeds Nie Chenxi, who has been CCTV head since 2015.
Jamie is currently Deputy Director of the World Service Group and Editorial Director of BBC Global News Ltd (GNL). He has been Acting Director of the World Service Group since the beginning of this year.
As Director, Jamie will lead the BBC’s global news services – BBC World Service, BBC World News and BBC.com – as well as BBC Monitoring. The BBC’s global news services have a weekly audience of 346m and the BBC World Service is currently undergoing its biggest expansion since the 1940s.
Director of BBC News and Current Affairs Francesca Unsworth says: “The BBC’s international news services are more important than ever, and Jamie brings huge editorial and leadership expertise to the Director role. He has a clear and strategic vision for the future of the World Service Group – both editorially and for our commercial services.
“The BBC World Service plays a unique role for the BBC, for Britain, and across the world, and I am confident it has an exciting future under Jamie’s direction.”
Jamie Angus says: “It’s a great honour to be appointed as World Service Director. There’s never been a greater need globally for the BBC’s independent, creative and engaging news services. With the expansion to 41 language services, we are already reaching new audiences everywhere; our English services on TV radio and online remain the gold standard for international news.
“With global concern growing about disinformation, ‘fake news’ and media literacy, the World Service Group has never been in a stronger position to show the way forward. We spot the stories, see the patterns and make sense of the world for our audiences. I’m very pleased to be able to lead that mission in the coming years.”
Jamie was previously the editor of Radio 4’s Today programme, covering high profile stories including the 2015 UK General Election, Scottish Independence referendum and the EU referendum. Under his leadership Today reached record audience figures of 7.4m and won an ARIA Radio Academy gold award for best National Speech Breakfast Programme.
Jamie joined the BBC in 1999 and was previously acting editor of Newsnight, editor of World At One and The World This Weekend, and editor of Daily News Programmes on World Service radio. He worked for the World Service Group in 2010-12 where he commissioned and launched new language TV bulletins in Urdu, Hindi and Swahili and the daily Focus on Africa TV bulletin, and worked on attachment as head of the World News newsroom.
His appointment follows a competitive recruitment process. Jamie replaces Francesca Unsworth, now Director of News and Current Affairs.
SatADSL is pleased to welcome you at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 26 to March 1. During the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, our experts will present our innovative solutions for mobile network operators and showcase for the very first time our Cloud IP Satellite Services solution.
The new Cloud IP Satellites Services solution is developed by SatADSL and allows mobile network operators to offer satellite Internet connectivity without the need to deploy infrastructure locally or invest in equipment. This SatADSL solution is available on the entire African continent, and in different frequency bands (C, Ku, and Ka). The multi-technology solution offers a very wide coverage, while the SatADSL C-SDP (Cloud Service Delivery Platform) allows for packaged services that meet over 95% of B2B clients’ needs, a billing system, and an integrated customer management tool. In addition to being innovative, SatADSL is offering satellite solutions at very competitive prices, providing connectivity on the entire African continent, including in remote sites.
The SatADSL Cloud IP Satellites Services solution based on the SatADSL C-SDP comes with unique advantages for mobile network operators that no other satellite operator is able to offer at present.
Come and see how SatADSL is revolutionizing the satellite telecommunications sector! SatADSL welcomes you at stand 7G71 in Hall 7 of the Belgian Pavilion. We invite you to contact us at info@satadsl.net or +32 2 351 33 74 to arrange a meeting at our stand.
At the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat, Signiant Inc, a market leader in intelligent file transfer, will demonstrate new, innovative capabilities that expand the value of its products within the media industry.
Signiant has led the way in cloud-native design, offering a category-defining SaaS platform that provides fast, secure global access to high-value media assets stored in on-premises storage or cloud-based storage. New innovations on show at the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat greatly build on this platform and help media & entertainment companies of all sizes speed up their operations by leveraging Signiant’s patented file acceleration technology, as well as by automating and simplifying file transfer workflows.
Held from February 19-23, 2018 at the JW Marriott Desert Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, CA, the HPA Tech Retreat is an informal gathering of the leading technical and business innovators from all aspects of the media technology sector, to discuss how constantly evolving technology is creating exciting opportunities in the capture, creation and distribution of content.
In the Innovation Zone, Signiant will demonstrate technology enhancements to its SaaS platform that allow professional media assets to be viewed in an adaptive bitrate format without generating a proxy in advance of the play request. The demonstration leverages transfer acceleration technology and cloud-native design to ensure a highly responsive end user experience without additional customer-deployed hardware or software.
“This technology has the potential to help users make better and faster decisions when transferring media,” said Ian Hamilton, CTO, Signiant. “As file sizes continue to grow, it is increasingly helpful to be able to easily confirm that a file contains the desired content prior to transfer, thereby ensuring that valuable time and network resources are not wasted.”
Ian Hamilton will be on-site at the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat to provide a preview of these innovations, as well as to discuss the breadth of technology and capabilities across Signiant’s entire product line.
For more details and to register to attend the HPA Tech Retreat, visit:
http://www.hollywoodprofessionalassociation.com/
(Source: Signiant press release)
Celebro Media today announces the launch of its new Washington DC live broadcast studio with stunning views of the White House. The multi million-dollar build will be the first US studio to be fully 4K/UHD functioning with pioneering IP technology and multi-camera capabilities.
In the run-up to the 2018 mid-term elections and all year round, news broadcasters will be able to hire the Celebro Media studio on an ad hoc basis with premium views of United States’ most influential building. It will also offer news broadcasters the flexibility to create a last-minute pop-up studio during breaking US Government, or national, stories.
“The White House will play an important part in many upcoming news stories in 2018. This investment is giving broadcasters the chance to hire a flexible production space with premium views in a purpose-built facility that no one else can offer,” comments Wesley Dodd, CEO of Celebro Media. “Celebro’s global reach now means that we can offer broadcasters the chance to link to other studios including our central London location to create more diverse content.”
Stephen Gaisford, Director of US Operations at Celebro Media said, “Using the right technology to future-proof our current studios and upcoming facilities enables us to easily be on-hand for breaking stories and host 24 hours news channels. This studio is just the start of Celebro’s rapid expansion in the US market and we look forward to housing some of the world’s biggest news channels.”
The studio will be fitted with NewTek’s IP Series, a software-driven, modular video production system with virtually limitless access to video sources and video mixing options. It has been designed for the latest IP video-production techniques while also being fully backwards compatible. This makes the new studio and facilities suitable for all formats and transmission protocols. Being a fully customisable IP workflow solution, the IP Series makes the studio highly flexible and able to handle the most demanding production needs.
Rotolight’s new Anova PRO 2 LED lights will supply all lighting, and Riedel will supply all real-time signal distribution, communications and data transport solutions.
To find out more information about Celebro Media’s new Washington DC studio, please visit: http://celebrostudios.co.uk/
About Celebro Media
Celebro Media boasts global fully robotic live television studios in 4K and HD, plus outside broadcasting (OB) facilities in UK, US and Russia. It provides clients with high-quality flexible services that allow content and messages to reach the broadest possible audience and achieve targets.
Celebro Media’s highly experienced team also provides consultancy on IPTV, broadcast strategy, commercialisation, editorial and technical services, public relations and research, as well as access to transmission networks and a diverse catalogue of media content.
Major clients include BBC World Service, MTV, Discovery Channel, TRT World and Reuters. Celebro Media has also produced branded content for Coca-Cola, M&S and Reebok.
[Source: Celebro press release]
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) appoints Euronews Group as its content and brand syndication agent to represent Al Jazeera’s digital flagship brand AJ+ at a worldwide scale.
Euronews Group is now in charge of marketing and promoting AJ+ digital channels to third party clients and specifically to its well established worldwide network of content and syndication partners.
Since 2014, AJ+ is available on its own social networks and through its mobile app in English, Arabic, Spanish and soon in French. Euronews has proposed its expertise to AJMN to develop the online infotainment brand. Euronews will make AJ+ content available on new media partners’ digital products and will propose creating new programmes tailored to specific markets and partners.
| Michael Peters, CEO, Euronews |
“We are proud to have been chosen by AJMN to participate to AJ+ future development, which has gained worldwide recognition among young people at a very fast pace since its launch.
Our experience in marketing content licence agreements in coordination with a fantastic product such as AJ+ provides a solid platform for the success of this collaboration. This partnership is an exciting milestone for both our companies in terms of global commercial roll-out and paves the road for potential additional collaboration with AJMN in the future.”
| Dr. Yaser Bishr, Executive Director of Digital, Aljazeera Media Network |
“Al Jazeera has made great strides over the last few years to organically target younger segments of audience through its digital native AJ+. The growth has been organically fuelled through social media, but it is time to consider strategic partnerships for direct scaling of our message. We are very pleased to partner with Euronews to explore untapped distribution opportunities through their impressive & multicultural network within Europe and globally. This collaboration cannot come at a better time as we flourish AJ+ into a diverse audience centric digital network with the recent launch of its French and 4th language edition.”
| Abdulla Alnajjar, Executive Director, Global Brand and Communications |
“I am delighted by this strategic engagement with Euronews, which will further extend the reach of the AJ+ brand to new markets and diverse audiences across the globe. This marks the beginning of a strategic commercial relationship between our organisations and I look forward to continuing this fruitful collaboration into the future.”
[Source: Euronews press release]