SYDNEY – Australian News Channel (ANC) has announced a new partnership with digital media distribution facility MediaHub Australia. The latter will provide playout services for ANC’s growing suite of premium Sky News channels.
As a leading 24-hour multi-channel, multi-platform news service provider in Australia, ANC delivers live news and national affairs coverage to audiences across the country via dedicated channels on Foxtel including Sky News Live, Sky News Business, Sky News Weather and Sky News Extra.
For the first time, ANC will also deliver a dedicated free-to-air television channel, Sky News on WIN, which will launch later this year on WIN’s regional network across northern New South Wales.
“Using MediaHub will allow our business and operational focus to be fully on creating even more premium Australian programming. Our new playout arrangements also offer advertisers more seamless integration across the wide range of our channels on Foxtel or programming on WIN,” said ANC CEO Angelos Frangopoulos.
MediaHub Australia is a large-scale, multi-client digital media, playout and distribution facility. It currently delivers over 360 live TV and radio channels to Australian and New Zealand metropolitan and regional markets, using modern technology and cutting-edge data management and delivery solutions.
Services offered by MediaHub include:
- PresHub, the company’s historic core business and the playout of linear channels
- XcodeHub enabling the automatic transcoding of content from one format to any other
- StreamHub for the streaming of channels to OTT services
- FibreHub providing connectivity services using the company’s core fibre network throughout Australia and New Zealand
- ArkHub for data archives
- MAMHub for all things media asset management related
- ExchangeHub, enabling efficient content delivery
“We are delighted to be the new playout partner and technology provider for Australian News Channel and their Sky News channels. Sky News sets the bar in terms of news reported and delivered as it happens, so we firmly believe that with our emphasis on efficiency, reliability and quality that our two organisations are a perfect fit that will work very well together for years to come,” said MediaHub Australia MD Alan Sweeney.
ANC is an award-winning news service provider and producer of exclusive public affairs programming including Paul Murray LIVE, The Bolt Report, SPEERS, SPEERS on Sunday, Jones & Co, Credlin and AM Agenda.
Its Sky News bureaus are located across Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Parliament House, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Darwin and regional markets Cairns and Geelong. Sky News also has a bureau in Wellington, New Zealand.
Sky News also operates a national digital news network SkyNews.com.au providing premium audio-visual journalism spanning global and national news, national affairs, politics, business, technology, and culture.
