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GlobeCast has contracted with leading fashion broadcaster Fashion One TV to bring Fashion One to millions of new homes across Europe and Northern Africa via its capacity on the Astra satellite at 19.2 degrees East. The satellite has a footprint that covers an estimated 65 percent of the cable and satellite audience in Europe, including 42 million DT) homes, 55 million cable homes, and 2.3 million DTT via satellite homes (TNT Sat). Fashion One joins premium broadcasters such as France 24, TV 5 Monde, CCTV News, and others in what has become a key neighborhood in the sky over Europe and Northern Africa. GlobeCast receives Fashion One’s signal in SD at its Paris teleport, where the signal is uplinked to the Astra satellite for reception by DTH viewers as well as by cable and DTT headends. Fashion One, an international fashion and entertainment channel that focuses on beauty, glamour, style, and luxury, was founded in 2010 and is now present around the world.
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Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that BBC Sport will use the Omneon MediaGrid™ active storage system at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) as part of the file-based quick-turnaround sports workflow supporting the broadcaster’s London 2012 Olympic Games coverage. Hyperactive, one of the U.K.’s largest equipment hire companies, is working with Dega Broadcast Systems to supply the MediaGrid, which will provide 3,500 hours of efficient work-in-progress storage. Installed in Stratford, London, as part of an integrated live production solution incorporating EVS servers, the MediaGrid storage system will provide efficient, highly available storage optimized for media. During the games, events will be recorded onto EVS servers for logging, replay, and basic editing. Content will also be streamed to the MediaGrid via EVS XTAccess, with high-res and proxy files being stored on the MediaGrid. In addition to supporting numerous simultaneous ingests, the system will enable production staff to search and view a proxy version of footage using EVS IP Browse clients.
The MediaGrid system will work in tandem with an Avid ISIS and Media Composer editing solution to support the creation of features, highlights packages, and news-based packages. EVS and Avid plugins will facilitate search, import, and export functions, ensuring that finished content is delivered to the appropriate destination or EVS playout server.
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Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) has introduced the SiriusXM Edge Dock and Play Radio, the first satellite radio able to receive an expanded lineup of commercial-free music channels, sports, and comedy, as well as SiriusXM Latino, a new suite of Spanish-language channels. The launch of SiriusXM Edge is part of the first phase of SiriusXM 2.0, a major upgrade and evolution of SiriusXM’s satellite and Internet delivered service that will ultimately span hardware, software, audio, and data services. By employing highly efficient modulation and compression techniques introduced as part of 2.0 technology that effectively delivers 25 percent more bandwidth capacity, SiriusXM will expand its audio and data services without affecting the broadcast quality of existing channels. The easy-to-use SiriusXM Edge receives all of the channels of previous satellite radios, allows customers to pause, rewind and replay live satellite radio programming, and boasts a large color graphic display to view artist name, song or show title, and channel information. Edge also offers features for enjoying satellite radio, including:
- Browse other channels while listening to the current one
- Store up to 10 favorite channels for one-touch access
- Lock and unlock channels with mature content using easy-to-use parental control
- One-Touch Jump™ to traffic and weather conditions to the most congested cities, or back to the previous channel
SatBroadcasting™ — This report includes new information from GlobeCast, Harmonic, Sirius XM Radio
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