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The Recording Academy and Iron Mountain announce partnership
Iron Mountain's Entertainment Services agrees to provide expertise on preservation and protection of musical intellectual property....
New FCC nominees to face Senate on Nov. 30
The Senate Commerce Committee has set the date for the confirmation hearings of two new members of the FCC, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel....
DreamWorks sees an Internet future dominated by audio, video
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts the dominant communications vehicle on the net would begin changing next year from mostly text to audio and video....
Sony to launch Internet-based TV network
Sony has reportedly approached several major media companies to negotiate the rights to offer their TV channels over the Internet in the U.S....
Turner supports multi-screen initiatives with help from Digital Rapids
Turner�s Network Operations group is using an array of StreamZHD encoders for ingest and encoding of live sources....
More than 133 million households worldwide to access OTT content in 2016, says IMS Research
A new study from the research company forecasts geographic expansion of OTT services such as those from Netflix and Amazon will help in large measure to drive growth....
Connect America Fund order seeks to expand reach of high-speed Internet service
The FCC last week released its Connect America Fund order reforming universal service funding and directing resources to support greater access to broadband Internet service....
Adobe halts development of Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices
The move will allow Adobe to increase investment in HTML5, the company said in a blogging posting earlier in the month....
Sony eyes Internet TV service, says reports
The electronics giant is investigating the possibility of launching its own over-the-top television service in the United States....
China summit agrees global approach to DTT
A China summit meeting has reached agreement to start ending the current divided state of digital terrestrial broadcasting....
EU backs EBU plan to ensure media freedom in SE Europe
The European Union is expected to sign an agreement with the European Broadcast Union (EBU) to back media independence across the Balkan region....
London firm predicts 551 million connected TV sets by 2016
A new report from London based Digital TV Research predicts that the number of TV sets connected to the Internet in a sample of 40 countries will increase from 124 million at the end of 2010 to 551 million by 2016....
Amazon opens exclusive second pay TV window with Warner Bros in UK
Just ahead of Netflix� UK launch, Amazon�s LoveFilm subsidiary has opened up a long middle window for Warner Bros films after satellite broadcaster Sky but before general Free To Air availability....
Comcast Media Center provides network origination and transmission services for NHL Network
The Comcast Media Center is providing turnkey services to distribute the sports network�s programming....
