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Coronavirus: How vendors are helping home workers
From free licences to online tutorials, manufacturers have rallied to help those tasked with keeping the world in content while working from home.
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Analyst review: Facebook, Google face ad revenue losses & SVOD market predictions
IBC365 rounds up pivotal analyst research from across the media and broadcast industry.
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Experts call on PSBs to push the cyber security agenda
Public service broadcasters are increasingly targeted by malicious cybercrime as they employ cloud-based workflows to manage valuable content assets. Alana Foster speaks to industry experts on the importance of prioritising cyber security.
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Analysis: Covid-19 impacts studio production schedules
As studio facilities around the world postpone productions and shut down in a move to halt the spread of coronavirus, UK’s WarnerBros, Dock10 and Pinewood remain operational.
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Playing to a captive audience
With most international sporting events delayed or cancelled due to coronavirus, could people turn to esports to get their sporting fix? Adrian Pennington investigates.
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Keeping content safe in the IP era
As the broadcast industry moves towards IP for both production and broadcast, Anne Morris investigates some of the security challenges involved in making the shift.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Inti De Ceukelaire on hacking broadcasters
Ethical hacking evangelist and public service broadcaster advocate Inti De Ceukelaire speaks to IBC365 on the importance of privacy, credible broadcasting and probing infrastructures for vulnerabilities.
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Collaborate to stop the pirates
Piracy continues to be a major challenge for media and broadcast organisations, with the shift to IP presenting new opportunities for pirates. How can the industry safeguard content distribution in an OTT world?
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Will SVOD boom fuel a rise in streaming piracy?
With the European launch of subscription service Disney Plus next week, consumers now have more choice than ever for watching content on demand. But could the cost of multiple subscriptions drive an increase in piracy?
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Sustainability: The difference between red meat and the media
George Jarrett reports from a Media & Entertainment Services Alliance keynote that warns of a new e-waste
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Analysis: Grass Valley’s future under the Black Dragon
Will Grass Valley’s fourth owner in the last two decades skyrocket the company mission to champion software technology and cloud services? IBC365’s Alana Foster speaks with industry analysts to probe the acquisition.
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Huawei analysis: The cyber security debate
The UK parliament voted last week to allow some Huawei equipment in 5G deployments despite the US issuing warnings of the threat, but how much of a risk is Huawei?
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NAB 2020: The industry reacts
NAB 2020 has been cancelled due to fears over the coronavirus. IBC365 looks at some of the industry reaction.
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The cost of the coronavirus
As coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, the financial impact is being felt by the media and tech sector through event cancellations, abrupt drops in ad revenue, share price falls, and disruption to production schedules.
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Q&A: Kate Scott on NHL all-women broadcast crew
On International Women’s Day, NBC Sports made NHL history by producing the first-ever all-women broadcast on US airwaves. IBC365 chats to play-by-play announcer Kate Scott to find out more about the historic broadcast.
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2020: Crunch time for codecs
Three new codecs will enter an already complex market this year as patent wrangling looks set to beset the promoters of video streaming codec AV1.
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MESA’s head in the cloud
At a recent MESA (Media & Entertainment Services Alliance) content workflow management forum, presentations on cloud transformation and cloud-based workflows worked well in explaining the issues and advantages. George Jarrett reports.
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Audio capture: Incremental changes rather than quantum leaps
Audio capture for live event coverage has not changed profoundly in recent years, but increasing levels of immersive production are leading to more ambitious microphone deployments, writes David Davies.
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How the coronavirus could change the way we make TV
As more media organisations enforce home working, could the spread of the coronavirus hasten the transition to remote production?
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Crafting equality behind the camera
NBC Sports coverage of NHL’s Blues versus Blackhawks game will go down in history in line with International Women’s Day on 8 March with an all-female team set to produce and broadcast the match.