StarTimes, Africa’s leading digital TV operator is scheduled to broadcast live the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II commemorative Cup match on Sunday, May 26th 2019. The game which will feature two of Africa’s football giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko of Ghana and Asec Mimosas of Cote D’ Ivoire will be aired on....

The press corps associations are urging the telecom regulator to force digital television operators which plan to return their broadcasting licences, to compensate their employees with three months of salary. This request is one among five that the press corps recently submitted to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

MUMBAI: Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of Bharti Airtel, and Shemaroo Entertainment, India’s leading content house, today launched ‘The Horror TV – Ab Lagega Darr’ – a subscription premium service offering a variety of horror movies, TV shows and web series.

Fraunhofer IIS is pleased to announce the licensing of its MPEG-H Audio patents to LG Electronics Inc., allowing LG to produce products which feature MPEG-H Audio. The MPEG-H Audio system, substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, is specified in TV broadcast standards such as ATSC 3.0 and DVB.

Fraunhofer IIS is pleased to announce the licensing of its MPEG-H Audio patents to LG Electronics Inc., allowing LG to produce products which feature MPEG-H Audio. The MPEG-H Audio system, substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, is specified in TV broadcast standards such as ATSC 3.0 and DVB.

Critical stakeholders have urged the federal government to ensure the realisation of a full transition from Analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting despite efforts by some to scuttle the process, JOHN ADETUNJI writes. Nigeria had shown interest in joining the rest of the world in....

Newspaper The Nation will stop its print editions and go fully online from July 1, when the independent English-language daily turns 48, to focus more on its core online readers including those based abroad, the top executive of the company that owns the paper said last week.

Direct to home (DTH) television service providers are still fine-tuning the subscription packages, even a few months after the implementation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority’s (TRAI) New Tariff Order for cable and DTH subscriptions, earlier this year.

Nigeria is signatory to the Geneva 2006 Agreement on Transition from Analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting, alongside member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Region 1. Thirteen years on, after breaching the nine-year window (June 2006-June 2015), Nigeria is yet to transit fully.

StarTimes Group chairman Pang Xinxing (right) and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television director general Li Chunliang address the press during the ground-breaking ceremony of the construction of StarTimes African Headquarters in Karen, Kenya, on July 14, 2014. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG In Summary.

D riven by a fundamental understanding of its revolutionary technological and socio-economic benefits, the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting, more commonly termed digital switchover, has become a global passion and most modern state systems are anxious to embrace the option.

In Egypt last month at the head of a delegation including 20 Russian companies, Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Information Konstantin Noskov signed a number of cooperation agreements with his Egyptian counterparts in the field of information technology (ICT).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (Bernama) -- Digital television broadcasts or Digital Terestrial Televisyen (DTT) is set to be fully implemented throughout the country by October this year, said chairman of myFreeView Johan Ishak. He said, so far, 15 television channels and six radio channels could be accessed....

StarTimes Group chairman Pang Xinxing (right) and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television director general Li Chunliang address the press during the ground-breaking ceremony of the construction of StarTimes African Headquarters in Karen, Kenya, on July 14, 2014. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG In Summary.

Corazone Saphane is an educational technologist and a presenter on Kenyatta University's digital television station, KUTV. PHOTO| COURTESY In Summary. In a nutshell, education technology is about incorporating technological resources in the teaching-learning process to facilitate learning.

Direct to home (DTH) service provider Tata Sky has announced the new Binge Service for its DTH subscribers. This new service will allow Tata Sky users to also access over-the-top (OTT) streaming apps such as Hotstar, Sun NXT and Hungama Play, in addition to their Live TV subscription. This is priced at Rs 249 per month.

Citing a survey, Somchai pointed out that only 36 percent of The Nation’s readers are based in Thailand while the remaining 64 percent live overseas, including 25 percent in the United States. He said that meant most of the newspaper’s readers did not buy its paper editions, and they read its....

BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Nation newspaper will stop its print editions and go fully online from July 1, when the independent English-language daily turns 48, to focus more on its core online readers including those based abroad, the top executive of the company that owns the paper said on Thursday (May 16).

Editor's note: Public affairs commentator, Uche Ejimofor, writes on the landmark achievement of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in successfully launching the Digital Switch-Over n Nigeria, but laments the media trial of the NBC DG, Ishaq Kawu Modibbo.

History was made on April 30, 2016, in Jos, the Plateau State capital when the federal government launched the pilot phase of the digital transmission project that kick-started the digitisation process in the country. The event marked the transmission from analogue to digital television in the city....

The 15 remaining digital TV channels will face a new set of challenges from innovative technology like artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) that will further disrupt their traditional business model. TV operators have to focus more on creating original....

Mattrix has simplified pixels used in televisions, while maintaining quality and reducing cost for TV manufacturers, said Mattrix CEO Max Lemaitre. Two resident companies at a University of Florida business incubator recently received a hefty investment from Samsung to further develop technology....

THE NATION newspaper will stop its print editions and go fully online from July 1, when the independent English-language daily turns 48, to focus more on its core online readers including those based abroad, the top executive of the company that owns the paper said yesterday.

Press release. TURKU, FINLAND - 16 May 2019 - Teleste is continuing its cooperation with the Belgian cable operator VOO (Nethys) to deploy Teleste's Luminato digital headend solution as part of VOO's Digitization programme. The flexible and compact Luminato platform is used as a broadcast play-out at the business customer location.

TURKU, FINLAND May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Â Teleste is continuing its cooperation with the Belgian cable operator VOO (Nethys) to deploy Teleste's Luminato digital headend solution as part of VOO's Digitization programme. The flexible and compact Luminato platform is used as a broadcast play-out at the business customer location.