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VertiCast’s CSport is using Harmonic’s VOS360 video SaaS platform to stream the English Premier League, the Fifa World Cup and other major sports content to 26 Caribbean countries. VOS360 allows VertiCast to control all stages of its media processing and delivery, including the creation of instant replays from live events. Thanks to VOS360’s real-time scaling, geo- redundancy and multi-CDN capabilities, VertiCast can provide fans their favourite sports services with exceptional, reliable video quality.

WRANGLING WWE

As part of a recent transaction, Endeavor has acquired World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Combined with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which Endeavor purchased in 2016, the two will form an as yet unnamed $21 billion ‘live sports and entertainment powerhouse.’ Endeavor will control 51% of WWE, with existing shareholders controlling the remaining 49%. Pixellot has signed a strategic partnership with China-based internet company Baidu. The agreement will see Pixellot initially install 200 systems in sports venues across China, with an additional 6000 systems installed over the next three years. Pixellot uses AI to automatically capture, produce and stream sports games at any level, without needing a camera operator. INTELLIGENT INSTALLATIONS

Newsbridge announced its MXT-1, a generative AI indexing technology which can parse more than 500 hours of video per minute. The tech uses natural language models to create human-like descriptions of video content, attempting to solve the searchability problem. MXT-1 has been trained on 100,000+ hours of media, entertainment and sports content, making it particularly suited to these industries. It detects faces, text, logos, landmarks, objects, actions and other video elements, generating a ‘semantic description’ rather than a collection of unrelated tags. It can also be taught to use a custom thesaurus. While still in beta mode, MXT-1 will enable companies to search, share and capitalise on their archives. It is more cost-effective than mono or unimodal AI systems, saving energy consumption and encouraging infinite indexing. INDEXING SPORTS

VIVA LA LIGA

News came from Spain’s La Liga of a collaboration with tech company Upstream, with the goal to roll out the online portal La Liga Premium to all mobile users in sub- Saharan Africa. The partnership came about due to La Liga’s growing popularity across the African continent, and aims to provide its subscribers with access to exclusive content.

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