Based in Los Angeles, Love Productions is an independent subsidiary of a leading UK production company with both entities specialising in unscripted content. Popular shows such as ‘The Great American Baking Show’’,’ ‘Singapore Social’, ‘Made in Mexico’ and many others air on major networks and streaming services including Netflix, Amazon and Facebook. Initially set up as a production office to develop U.S. shows back in 2013, as work expanded Love Productions decided to bring postproduction totally in-house. At that point, Head of Post Production Charlotte Pai was given the challenging task of researching and building the new facility from scratch.

In this IABM TV panel session, Naveendran Murthy (APAC Sales Manager, Skyline Communications) & Mazlan Mahdi (CEO, MYTV)discuss the recent project where MYTV utilised Dataminer at the start of the Malaysian DVB-T2 network deployment.

Q&A with Erik Ahlin (Co-founder, Vidispine) & Holger Noske (VP Broadcast Solutions, Arvato Systems)

IABM Media Tech Trends reports annually track the adoption of specific emerging technologies within the broadcast and media sector. The purpose of these reports is to enable member companies to better understand the drivers of emerging technologies’ adoption within customer organizations. This should provide member companies more tools to better address the challenges lying ahead, from new product development to marketing strategy. These reports contain a discussion on the state of adoption of the emerging technology in broadcast and media as well as an analysis of significant customer deployments.

TVU Networks, the global technology and innovation leader in live IP solutions, announced that Televisió de Catalunya’s (TV3) ‘Minut a Minut’ sports television program successfully relied on TVU’s mobile transmitter app TVU Anywhere to simultaneously host more than 25 football fans globally in a virtual talk show during a two hour live broadcast on their channel Esport3. The program’s panelists were able to engage in live video exchanges with fans in full HD picture quality and with minimal delay.

In an effort to support all local communities nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, TVU Networks has been working with news stations and municipal government offices across the country to set up free local live video pool feeds through its Project Pool Feed. Using the free TVU Anywhere app on a mobile phone, municipal officials and spokespersons can share live video to the pool feed by simply pressing the “live” button. No training is required to use TVU Anywhere because of its intuitive interface.

In this panel, we hear how the Coronavirus has affected each of these businesses and what kind of permanent effect it will have on the industry. We hear what the new key requirements are going forward and how these companies are preparing for the post-Covid-19 era.

MediaKind Application Paper

Programmers and MVPDs are coming under increasing pressure to deliver fully personalized and relevant video experiences. At the same time, they must also comply fully with distribution rights & local regulations to achieve the highest possible means of monetization through advertising and to gain a deeper understanding of their audiences’ needs.

MediaKind Application Paper

While the concept of ‘X’-as-a-Service is not new, it is the new on-trend topic for the Telecom, Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. In fact, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now abuzz all across the media space. So why now?

MediaKind Application Paper

Innovative developments in live streaming technologies, along with significant investments into broadband capabilities, have set the industry standard for the modern TV experience. Immersive and compelling content is now expected for most live and on-demand events, offering an experience that is comparable to ‘being there’.

MediaKind Application Paper

Demand for coverage of live events, particularly sports, is at an all-time high. For broadcasters, delivering this level of content is an increasing challenge; but even more so at a time when budgets are being squeezed and the environmental impact of operations are being continually scrutinized. This is leading many to turn to remote or at-home production techniques.

MediaKind Application Paper

As Ultra High Definition (UHD) TVs progressively fill households around the world (IHS reports 60% of TV sales in major markets are now UHD and predicts that by 2023, there will be 574 million 4K TV households1) it is no surprise, therefore, that UHD, together with High Dynamic Range (HDR), has become part of the mainstream media content ecosystem.

MediaKind Application Paper

The dramatic interruption to our daily lives by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps been the final straw for Pay TV market, forcing broadcasters, content owners and traditional Pay TV operators to evaluate their existing technologies and business strategies.

The Connect segment of the BaM Content Chain® encompasses the moving of content, whether real-time (live) or file-based, within and between facilities. This covers a wide range of products and services including IP (and SDI) infrastructure, routing, interfacing and conversion, file-based delivery as well as bandwidth and connectivity services including internet, fiber, satellite, microwave, and cellular.

Connect was already one of the fastest growing segments of the BaM Content Chain®, and the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown has dramatically increased demands on connectivity; according to the most recent IABM survey, Connect is the only BaM Content Chain® segment that is still growing during the pandemic. We spoke to IABM members about the drivers of change and trends in this BaM Content Chain® block, what effects they have felt to their business as a result of the pandemic, how they are responding, and what we can expect next in this dynamic sector.

Published Q2 2020

Journal is the IABM Magazine released every quarter that covers hot topics within the industry. It is distributed at major shows, posted to IABM members and posted online for all members to view.

In this IABM TV interview, Molly Presley (Global Product Marketing, Qumulo) gives some detail on the products and services from Qumulo that support the industry. Molly also discusses what they are doing to help support the changing needs of their customers in the current climate.

This panel, chaired by Lorenzo Zanni (Head of Insight & Analysis, IABM), looks at the future of production that is being forced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Panellists:

• Jeremy Dujardin (CTO, Media & Entertainment Services, Tata Communications)
• Per Lindgren (CTO and Co-founder, Net Insight)
• Joshua Liemer (President, VISTA Worldlink)

Organizations of all types and sizes use an ever-growing variety of tools, systems, and platforms that specialize in particular tasks or stages of the content lifecycle – from planning tools, asset and metadata management systems, to creative production, analytics, and AI platforms just to name a few.

As we’ve learned over the years, the more tools you have, the more tools and processes you have to connect. And soon, the number of arrows on the ecosystem diagram outnumber the boxes (tools). But which specialty is responsible for governing all those arrows that span from planning to preservation and everything in-between? Dynamic Media Orchestration.

Join us for a look at how two very different video content leaders came to realize that their greatest opportunities weren’t around how many more tools they could leverage – but instead, involved intelligently orchestrating the tools, people, and processes they already had.

In this IABM TV interview, Neil Neusten (Business Development Director, Graphical Data) & Chris Ireland (Managing Director, Graphical Data) give an overview of the products and services Graphical Data provide.

In this IABM TV Panel, Lisa Collins (Head of Membership Engagement, IABM) talks to Chris Bailey (CEO and Co-Founder of FileCatalyst) & Andy Wilson (Industry Principle- Media for Dropbox) about Filecatalyst & Dropbox’s recent partnership. The panel also discuss the important challenges the media industry has had to go through in this period to enable seamless collaboration.