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Globecast Launches Media Centre in Los Angeles

A facility to create and playout video content to any distribution platform.

LOS ANGELESGlobecast announced the launch of its Los Angeles Media Centre, offering broadcasters and content providers a converged workflow to prepare, deliver and playout content to any kind of distribution platform. The new Media Centre adds to the company's facilities in London and Singapore, providing a one-stop-shop for media management, playout, satellite and OTT distribution.

The new facility, which has been upgraded to include Globecasts Media Factory for content logistics and converged workflow, brings broadcast and OTT solutions together under one roof, making it more efficient to handle both linear broadcast and on-demand services.

Globecasts Media Factory replaces multiple operations with a single, process that handles everything from VoD preparation and content formatting to creative services, quality control and compliance. The Media Factory approach allows Globecast to pass on economies of scale to customers who also benefit from the greater flexibility and the ability to scale up and down as required. The LA Media Centre features state-of-the art technology from leading providers to create an integrated broadcast facility.

Globecasts managing director in the U.S., Eddie Ferraro, said, In this constantly shifting media landscape, cost-efficiency and time-to-market are key to a successful business model. Broadcasters today have to cover traditional linear playout as well as VoD and catch-up services across multiple platforms in order to reach their viewers. Our new Media Centre enables them to do exactly this from right here in the heart of LA.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- If you want to know whymedia companies are wary ofApple (AAPL - Get Report) getting into the television business, youneed only to look at what happened to the music industry after it introducediTunes: Music companies lost much of their clout and reach.

The maker of the iPad and iPhone is expected to unveil a 25-channel Internet-based television service later this year, according to areportlast week in The Wall Street Journal, deepeningits competition with Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG)as well as streamingservices from Roku, Sony (SNE) and DISH (DISH).

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For media companies that spend billions of dollars developing programming, Applerepresents an opportunity and a risk. The opportunity is the chance to gather insights into the viewing habits of Apple's customers, a high-income demographic active in social media, and to better reach the roughly 10 million U.S. households that have a high-speed Internet connection but choose not to subscribe to a pay-TV service.

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In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Vince Neil and girlfriend Rain Andreani arrive at the iHeart Radio Music Festival, at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.(AP)

Rock 'n' roller Vince Neil is taking a fight over his Internet persona to state court in Las Vegas, with a lawsuit accusing a social media consultant of refusing to give him control of his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.

The consultant, Kristy Sinsara of Bend, Oregon, said Thursday that she believes the lawsuit stems from a misunderstanding.

Sinsara said that in February she gave the Motley Crue lead singer's manager the Facebook passwords and email contact information sought by the civil complaint.

"I don't want to be saying bad things about my client," Sinsara told The Associated Press. "I love and respect Vince. I have evidence that I sent them to his personal manager."

Neil's attorney, James Kohl, declined to comment beyond the civil lawsuit filed March 13 in Clark County District Court.

"Even though Sinsara agreed to relinquish control over the accounts on Dec. 26, 2014, and again on March 1, 2015, she has and continues to maintain control," the complaint said.

It accuses Sinsara of making unauthorized posts that Neil's fans believe to be from him.

Sinsara's lawyer, Isaac Warren of Choctaw, Oklahoma, said he hadn't seen the complaint but also believed it was caused by a misunderstanding.

The lawsuit alleges breach of contract and unjust enrichment. It seeks unspecified damages greater than $20,000, and it asks for an injunction to force Sinsara to turn over access and administrative control of the accounts to Neil.

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They were speaking yesterday at a forum organised by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) regarding the direction of regulations governing hegemony in the radio and TV broadcasting industry.

Patanaporn Kowpatanakit, deputy director of the Law and Development Research Centre at Chulalongkorn University, said management of the media industry was unique as unlike ordinary businesses, it involved the public interest.

"Considering only the ownership in this digital terrestrial TV broadcasting business is not sufficient to identify who dominates the market. The real power controller in the company is the most important point," she said.

Speaking as a former member of a committee examining the qualifications of bidders for digital TV bidders in late 2013, Patanaporn suggested that both direct and indirect controlling powers of stakeholders was very important to identify a real group of mutual beneficiaries.

Referring to Article 31 of the Constitution, Piyabutr Bunaramrueang, lecturer at the faculty of law at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, said media diversity was meant to ensure the Thai people's basic right to know and freedom of expression.

Piyabutr also suggested that all digital-TV licence holders should strictly comply with the existing broadcasting regulations to maintain diversity in the media business.

Thawatchai Jittrapanun, a commissioner of the NBTC, said that the rules governing the 2013 auction of digital TV licences were based on a constitutional provision in effect at the time to protect consumers from media hegemony.

The NBTC's broadcasting committee is due to make a decision on the controversial case about the acquisition of an equity stake in Nation Multimedia Group by Solution Corner (1998) or SLC, which is being contested over alleged violation of the anti-hegemony rule imposed on that auction. The five members of the broadcasting committee will meet on Monday.

The academics and consumer groups at the forum expressed concerns about media hegemony. NMG operates Nation TV, a digital TV news channel, while a subsidiary of SLC also owns a digital channel called Springnews TV.

Two of the five members of the broadcasting committee have said they believed the rules governing the auction should not be enforced after bidding ended, but two other members believed otherwise. The fifth member remained undecided on the matter.

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Vince NeilPhoto: WireImage

Rock n roller Vince Neil is taking a fight over his Internet persona to state court in Las Vegas, with a lawsuit accusing a social media consultant of refusing to give him control of his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.

The consultant, Kristy Sinsara of Bend, Oregon, said Thursday that she believes the lawsuit stems from a misunderstanding.

Sinsara said that in February she gave the Motley Crue lead singers manager the Facebook passwords and email contact information sought by the civil complaint.

I dont want to be saying bad things about my client, Sinsara told The Associated Press. I love and respect Vince. I have evidence that I sent them to his personal manager.

Neils attorney, James Kohl, declined to comment beyond the civil lawsuit filed March 13 in Clark County District Court.

Even though Sinsara agreed to relinquish control over the accounts on Dec. 26, 2014, and again on March 1, 2015, she has and continues to maintain control, the complaint said.

It accuses Sinsara of making unauthorized posts that Neils fans believe to be from him.

Sinsaras lawyer, Isaac Warren of Choctaw, Oklahoma, said he hadnt seen the complaint but also believed it was caused by a misunderstanding.

The lawsuit alleges breach of contract and unjust enrichment. It seeks unspecified damages greater than $20,000, and it asks for an injunction to force Sinsara to turn over access and administrative control of the accounts to Neil.

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