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Australian broadcast services provider MediaHub is using HPE Apollo 4000 and Scality RING to develop a simplified and cost-effective storage solution for expanding broadcast archives.

Forty-one small and regional Australian publishers will share in $5 million in grants made available in the 2020 round of the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund.

National broadcasters the ABC and SBS are each receiving $2 million in funding from the Federal Government to provide audio description on television programs, making content more accessible for blind and vision impaired Australians.

The Federal Government’s failure to get a bill passed through parliament reducing the regulatory burden for regional commercial radio and television broadcasters, has been slammed by the Labor Party.

The telecommunications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has laid out its priorities for the future delivery of radio in Australia, underlining what it says is the vital importance of radio to Australian audiences.

TV advertising technologies which give advertisers the ability to show different ads to different households while they are watching the same program, already reaches over nine million Australians, according to newly published research.

New rules to restrict gambling advertising during live streamed sport are under consideration by the communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which has now opened a public consultation process on the proposed rules.

US-based Telstra subsidiary and video platform provider, Ooyala, has launched new versions of its media asset management (MAM) and Reviewer applications for its media logistics platform, Flex.

Inmarsat’s Global Xpress high-speed satellite broadband service offers ‘new opportunities’ to enhance capabilities for news gathering, broadcasters and content creators worldwide

Hot on the heels of Network 10 implementing a solution to defeat ad blockers, SBS TV has also now started rolling out new anti-ad blocking technology from Switch Media across its On Demand services including the network website, iOS and Android apps.

Ericsson has secured multi-year access services contracts with broadcasters ABC and SBS to deliver live and file-based captioning.

Telstra will provide exclusive live streaming of all Australian Football League (AFL) matches to mobile devices from 2017 following the signing of a six year mobile and digital rights agreement with the league.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is considering what sanctions it should apply to Sydney radio station Today FM for its airing of a prank call by two of its presenters made in 2012 to the British hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was being treated during her first pregnancy.

So-called Over the Top (OTT) TV providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime are expected to generate $31.6 billion by 2019, up from just under $8 billion last year, and posing an increasing competitive threat to traditional broadcasters.

The ABC has scored a pat on the back from the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) for the launch of its iview Audio Description trial for viewers who are blind or have a vision impairment.

Broadcasters can now stream HD LIVE and VOD content on Facebook using TikiLIVE, Eyepartner's flagship HD broadcasting service that provides its users with a comprehensive set of tools for producing and managing live HD streaming content. Facebook users click on the thumbnail of a channel or VOD's posted link that will immediately launch the player inside the Facebook page.