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Orad never.no Interactive Team
GBR: Orad and never.no has announced a collaboration to integrate broadcast TV with social networks. never.no offers a unique framework to integrate Orad’s graphics solutions with social media networks and companion apps enabling broadcasters to deeply engage audiences through a myriad of interactive and viewer data mining opportunities. Dilshan De Silva, Espial’s Head of Browser Products said: “This latest customer win reinforces our product leadership.”

SNTV To Open Rio Bureau
SNTV, the joint venture between IMG Media and The Associated Press, has announced it will open a new bureau in Rio de Janeiro. The television sports video news agency will locate its new bureau at AP’s ofﬁce, as the city readies itself for the 2016 Summer Games, a major event in the country’s sporting history. Ahead of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Games in 2016, the city will also welcome the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, as well as the Soccerex Global Convention later this year and the Sportel Rio conference, the international sports programme market for television and new media, in March 2013. SNTV had a signiﬁcant presence at Euro 2012 and the London 2012 Olympic Games, providing comprehensive coverage of both events. In addition to the FIFA Confederations Cup, 2013 will be a packed year for sport, including such other key events

Witbe Opens Canadian Ofﬁce
CAN: Witbe, a developer of QoE test and monitoring solutions for service providers, has opened a Canadian office. Witbe provides software and services for Broadcasters, Telco and Cable service providers to test and monitor the quality of their voice, video and broadband services on any fixed and mobile network. Witbe’s award-winning technology has the ability to replicate subscriber’s actions on any device, providing factual information on the actual user-experience in real-time.

as the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, the IAAF World Athletics Championships, the World Handball Championships and, in cycling, the UCI Road World Championships. In January, SNTV became the

ﬁrst and only sports news agency to operate in high definition. The Rio de Janeiro bureau will be the fourth permanent location SNTV has outside London. Its other ofﬁ ces are in New York, Beijing and Singapore.

ECS And OH TV Expand Across Africa
ECS and OH TV have expanded their cooperation by launching the OHTV channel throughout all of Africa. The channel can now be viewed in every region of the continent by viewers who can downlink the channel with small antennas from 1.8 meters. The European Communication Services (ECS) Turnkey solution for OH TV includes collecting the signal at a London PoP (Point of Presence), sending the signal by ﬁ bre to the Uplink Station, and uplinking the signal to the AMOS-5 Pan African C-band for distribution to the entire continent. Africa. Our turnkey operation is opening a huge market for UK and European broadcasters enabling to reach a tremendous viewership with their content.” This deal follows an earlier one between the two companies in which they joined forces to offer the African broadcast market solutions providing broadcast and IPTV access to the African continent and around the world. The two for one service provides both a turn-key satellite broadcast service across Africa and an IPTV service via OH BoX’s IPTV Platform for the UK, European and international markets.

Enex Expands To Latin America
LUX: European News Exchange (Enex), provider of TV news across Europe, is expanding its activities to Latin America. “We will continue on this path of globalisation and gain more member stations in Asia and Africa in the future,” announced Managing Director, Henning Tewes. At the AGA, the members agreed to the inclusion of new TV stations from Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala and Puerto Rico.

“We are proud to extend our agreements with OH TV and enlarge their viewing audience to every corner of Africa,” said ECS CEO Eran Avni. “ECS offers costeffective solution for broadcasters from the UK and Europe seeking distribution for their content over

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