Sesame Street was awarded seven Emmys at the 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The categories that Sesame Street won Emmys for are: Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series, Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series, Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Series, Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing and Outstanding Achievement in Technical … [Read more...] about Sesame Street wins seven Daytime Emmys
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CJ HelloVision to carry Unitel Classica HD
Seoul/Munich – Korean cable TV operator CJ HelloVision is launching Unitel Classica HD on its cable and web TV services. Unitel Classica HD, together with its existing carriages on SkyLife and KT, brings the total reach of the channel to more than one million households in the Korean market. Starting June 23, Unitel Classica will present the live broadcast of AIDA from the Arena di Verona, the Festival Summer 2012, showing highlights of this year’s festival, as well as operas … [Read more...] about CJ HelloVision to carry Unitel Classica HD
The Philippines tops list of NBA followers on Facebook and Twitter outside US and China
Miami - The NBA has announced that other than the United States and China, it's the Philippines topping the list of countries following the league on Facebook and Twitter. The NBA said it has 278 million fans following through social media worldwide. For Facebook, the Philippines is followed by Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico and France, while on Twitter the countries checking in second through fifth are Indonesia, Brazil, the United Kingdom and India. … [Read more...] about The Philippines tops list of NBA followers on Facebook and Twitter outside US and China
BroadcastAsia 2012: Hybrid cloud to facilitate content exchange between providers and broadcasters
Singapore – Hybrid cloud solutions are the key to seamless content exchanges delivered with optimal benefits at lower risks between content providers and TV broadcasters. At the cloud broadcasting session on Day 2 of the conference, Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton explained to TV ASIA Plus that hybrid cloud content exchange is a combination of both public and private cloud infrastructures, leveraging upon the benefits of the two solutions. Public clouds broker logical B2B … [Read more...] about BroadcastAsia 2012: Hybrid cloud to facilitate content exchange between providers and broadcasters
Broadband passes 600 million subscriber milestone with Asia dominating the market share
According to the latest figures published by the Broadband Forum and prepared by broadband industry analysts Point Topic, broadband has passed another major milestone with the global total number of broadband subscribers soaring to over 600 million in the first quarter of 2012. At CommunicAsia in Singapore, it was announced that the figures have highlighted the dominant position of Asia, led in both broadband and in IPTV by China. Asia continues to be the biggest overall region with 262,080,147 … [Read more...] about Broadband passes 600 million subscriber milestone with Asia dominating the market share
Chinese delegation pulled out of Sheffield Doc/Fest
The delegation of Chinese commissioning editors pulled out of the Sheffield Doc/Fest last week. “Officially we have been told that the reason the Chinese delegation cancelled is related to a restriction on the number of travel trips they can make to Europe,” said Heather Croall, Sheffield Doc/Fest director. However, she said that unofficially, there were a number of difficult conversations regarding films that they were screening in the programme that challenge issues of freedom of … [Read more...] about Chinese delegation pulled out of Sheffield Doc/Fest
