CBC Sports and Mediapro Canada announced a partnership that will see live coverage of 20 games throughout the 2019 season of Canada’s new tier-one men’s professional soccer league, the Canadian Premier League (CPL), on CBC Sports platforms. CBC will be the exclusive television broadcast home for 10 Canadian Premier League games, offering 10 live key […] More
After quadrupling deployments with major US-based service providers over the past six months, Aperi (Booth SU13302) demonstrated expanded cybersecurity and IP monitoring and a new streamlined, one-third 1RU solution at NAB 2019. More
Wowza Media Systems (Booth SU7114) collaborated with Microsoft (Booth SL6716) at the NAB Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate live video streaming solutions on Microsoft Azure. These included a solution integrating Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, as well as the Wowza Streaming Cloud service stream sources feature. More
DAZN has sold its Perform division, including Opta, to a US investment firm, a deal that will see it merged with STATS, the sports technology, data, and content company. Vista Equity Partners is behind the acquisition which will see DAZN receive both cash and a “significant” minority stake in the newly formed company. More
On November 8, Deltatre completed its acquisition of over-the-top (OTT) provider Massive Interactive for a total of $127 million. This deal created one of the largest OTT sports providers in the world and a company rumored to be worth around $1 billion. Since the acquisition, the two companies have been aligning strategies while allowing Massive […] More
Where do esports fit on a traditional sports network? Fox Sports is trying to work that out, with a little help from online platform Caffeine. The two will co-present live broadcasts of several events in the FIFA 19 Global Series right up to the FIFA eWorld Cup. More
MediaKind (Booth 1324, 720) is expanding its long-term alliance with Inspur Digital Media to help current TV Service providers shift towards cloud-based delivery. By harnessing Inspur Digital Media’s cloud-based virtualized servers and software running on Inspur Digital Media Openstack cloud, MediaKind will provide an economical and scalable end-to-end solution to TV service providers in APAC, […] More
Oi Brazil has chosen MediaKind’s end-to-end consumer experience solution for providing contemporary multiscreen entertainment services to consumers across Brazil. More
Ooyala has been selected to power advanced video workflows for Picture Production Company (THE PPC). The company produces over 25,000 pieces of content a year for over 60 countries 24 hours a day, 5 days a week across 2 offices. More
ESPN+ and U.S. Soccer announced an exclusive, multi-year media rights agreement for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, U.S. Soccer’s national championship for clubs and the longest-running domestic cup competition in the United States. All U.S. Open Cup matches from the First Round through the Final will air exclusively on ESPN+, the direct-to-consumer sports streaming […] More
