Australian News Channel locks in Mediahub for digital media distribution
Australian News Channel has announced MediaHub Australia as its digital media distributor.
The announcement:
Australian News Channel (ANC) today announced digital media distribution facility MediaHub Australia will provide playout services for its growing suite of premium Sky News channels.
As Australia’s unrivalled 24-hour multi-channel, multi-platform news service provider, ANC delivers LIVE news and national affairs coverage to audiences across Australia via dedicated channels on Foxtel including Sky News Live (Ch 103 & 600), Sky News Business (Ch 601), Sky News Weather (Ch 603), Sky News Extra (Ch 604) and Sky News UK (Ch 605).
ANC will also deliver for the first time, a dedicated free-to-air television channel “Sky News on WIN” which will launch later this year on channel 83 across WIN’s regional network and channel 53 across Northern NSW.
Angelos Frangopoulos, CEO Australian News Channel said: “We are pleased to have appointed MediaHub as our new playout service provider to facilitate the growing needs of our business as we deliver more unique news, weather news, sports news and national affairs programming to even more television viewers across Australia.
“Using MediaHub will allow our business and operational focus to be fully on creating even more premium Australian programming. Our new playout arrangements also offer advertisers more seamless integration across the wide range of our channels on Foxtel or programming on WIN.”
MediaHub Australia is a large-scale, multi-client digital media, play-out and distribution facility, currently delivering over 360 live TV and radio channels to Australian and NZ metropolitan and regional markets using the very latest technology and cutting-edge data management and delivery solutions.
Services offered by MediaHub include PresHub, MediaHub’s historic core business and the playout of linear channels, XcodeHub enabling the automatic transcoding of content from one format to any other, StreamHub for the streaming of channels to OTT services, FibreHub, providing connectivity services using the company’s core fibre network throughout Australia and New Zealand, ArkHub for data archive, MAMHub for all things Media Asset Management related and ExchangeHub, enabling efficient content delivery.
MediaHub Australia MD Alan Sweeney said, “We are delighted to be the new playout partner and technology provider for Australian News Channel and their Sky News channels. As everyone in the industry knows Sky News sets the bar in terms of news reported and delivered as it happens, so we firmly believe that with our emphasis on efficiency, reliability and quality that our two organisations are a perfect fit that will work very well together for years to come.”
ANC is an award-winning news service provider and producer of exclusive public affairs programming including Paul Murray LIVE, The Bolt Report, SPEERS, SPEERS on Sunday, Jones & Co, Credlin and AM Agenda.
Its Sky News bureaus are located across Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Parliament House, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Darwin and regional markets Cairns and Geelong. Sky News also has a bureau in Wellington, NZ.
Sky News also operates a national digital news network SkyNews.com.au providing premium audio-visual journalism spanning global and national news, national affairs, politics, business, technology, and culture.
Source: Sky News
