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The IBC Accelerator project, AI Agent Assistants for Live Production, has won the Best AI Innovation (Workflow) award at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2025.

ITN Productions has launched a low-latency IP gallery for news bulletins by combining Techex system design with TAG’s Realtime Media Platform and Matrox ConvertIP decoders.

Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board and criticised governance issues at the corporation.

Advertising giant Omnicom Group is expected to complete its acquisition of rival agency holding company Interpublic Group on Wednesday.

Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica is looking to cut 5,000 jobs in Spain.

Global media spending on sports rights is set to surpass $78bn by 2030 – an increase of 20% from 2025 – according to an Ampere Analysis study.

Paramount has won the rights to broadcast the majority of the Champions League matches in the UK for four years from 2027.

IBC has announced the call for challenges for the 2026 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme.

Bitmovin has announced that its Observability for video playback (formerly Bitmovin’s Analytics) is now available on Akamai Cloud for the Akamai Adaptive Media Player 2 (AMP2). This integration enables improved streaming efficiency, real-time visibility, and deeper integration with Akamai’s services, the company said.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect router, a new capability that it says enables broadcasters and content providers to dynamically route live video between sources and destinations in the AWS network.