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TURKEY SWITCHES ON UK HORSE RACING
London’s BT Tower via The Switch Access service, which then in turn will be livestreamed over the club’s dedicated online channel to its 2800 betting shops around the country. The agreement with The Switch also allows TJK customers to place bets on live UK race broadcasts across the flat racing season. “Horse racing continues to be a major audience and revenue driver across the world and our deep understanding of handling time- sensitive live content means we can ensure high-quality feeds are delivered without a hitch,” concludes Nicholas Castaneda, senior vice-president at The Switch.
The Switch has been selected by the Jockey Club of Turkey (TJK) to deliver horse racing live streams from the UK to its growing audience of racing fans. The improved popularity of the sport in Turkey means The Switch will be providing live feeds from the likes of Newmarket and Ascot to 600,000 customers in Turkey. Murat Kuyumcu, the Jockey Club of Turkey technical director, says: “Working with The Switch means we only have to deal with one service provider to meet our needs, instead of coordinating multiple services.” TJK will receive the feeds, picked up from
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TWINE4CAR Access has announced that its work with sister company NetRange has resulted in a car-centric app store, which is now a part of the Access Twine for Car (Twine4Car) in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system. The Twine4Car app store has a wide range of IVI applications, including: y y Leading video streaming and live TV applications y y Leading streaming audio services y y News services y y Kids content y y Location-aware services for local information and retailer offers y y Weather The Twine4Car also supports DRM (digital rights management) on devices in the vehicle for secure playback. It also enables automotive OEMs to provide branded entertainment and information services on the car-head unit and rear-seat entertainment units. Twine4Car also connects the in-car infotainment system components with BYOD devices via in-car Wi-Fi. y y Payment services y y Convenience apps y y In-car games
FILMCHAIN GETS BOOST Investor in women-led start-ups, HearstLab, announced its seed investment in London-based financial technology company FilmChain. Working globally with the film and television industry, FilmChain collects revenues and pays production stakeholders in a transparent and automatic way, using a private Ethereum blockchain ledger to maintain transaction information. “FilmChain brings transparency to a traditionally opaque process, ensuring monies are paid and putting real-time performance tracking at the fingertips of key project stakeholders,” HearstLab FILMCHAIN filmchain.co
chairwoman Eve Burton comments. Further extending its leadership in providing financial transparency, FilmChain recently launched dynamic customisable performance reports for producers, sales agents and investors – an industry first for film collection management. “Having such a great investor, committed to supporting female founders at our stage growth, made the conversation a perfect fit right from the start. We were thrilled to discover such wonderful partners, who are ready to roll up their sleeves and provide hands-on support,” says Maria Tanjala, FilmChain co-CEO.
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