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Designed and built by Videocraft, Hillsong Church’s new state of the art full production facility in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria is certainly in contention for the title for one of the year’s more impressive studio builds. Hillsong TV Technical Manager Luke Irvine explains, “For years our Waterloo campus in Sydney has been growing and [...]

Former Australian cricketer and VFL footballer Simon O’Donnell has invested in Team App, a new Australian-made platform that allows any sporting club to build their own apps in minutes, for free. Team App is a new sporting platform that allows even the smallest sporting club to build a world-class smartphone app, complete with the ability [...]

Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a global provider of cloud content services, has announced the winners of the company’s 2013 Innovation Awards, recognising some of the most innovative, best-in-class digital media initiatives and campaigns across a number of industries and use cases. Awards were presented in nine categories this morning at Brightcove’s PLAY 2013 global customer [...]

Two of Australia’s leading truck manufacturers: Isuzu and Hino, will showcase DAB+ digital radio in their selected models at this week’s Brisbane Truck Show. The two manufacturers will be showcasing DAB+ digital radio on the Directed Electronics stand at the Brisbane Truck Show, which will take up all three levels of the Brisbane Convention and [...]

Riedel Communications, provider of real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, announced that it is expanding its worldwide presence with a new office in Hilversum, Netherlands (just outside Amsterdam). Riedel has also opened a new office in South Sydney, Australia. “Over the past few years, we have observed significant growth in the Benelux broadcast and [...]

Hostworks, Australian solutions provider to the online and digital media industry, has announced the extension of its partnerships with Ticketek and Carsales. Ticketek, the leading ticketing partner for the sports and live entertainment industry across ANZ, commenced its relationship with Hostworks in 2005. Ticketek has been utilising Hostworks’ Elastic Compute Platform to enable on-demand functionality, [...]

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Australia Section has announced that they will once again be providing a number of ‘Young Industry Person’s Award’ (YIPA) positions to provide young people who work in an operational or technical area of the Film, Television, Radio, Broadcast and associated Media industries the opportunity for free [...]

The Australia Federal Government has used its annual budget to announce an additional AUD$109.4 million over three years to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS). According to the Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, “This additional funding will allow the ABC and the SBS [...]

ABC TV and zeebox have announced an agreement to partner on the new ABC2 show Dirty Laundry Live to offer viewers a new way to interact with the show. In a first for ABC TV, Dirty Laundry Live will collaborate with zeebox to deliver an integrated multi-screen experience. Using the zeebox app, viewers will be [...]

Entertainment legal services practice, David Whealy and Associates, and veteran producer Patrick Condon have organised for 22 students from the prestigious Chapman University Carol Dodge Film School (LA Film School) to visit Sydney and take part in a whole host of industry events between 7-17 June this year. David Whealy explained, “The LA Film School [...]