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BT Broadcast Services to provide webcasting for oscar.com
MUMBAI: The biggest film awards show the Academy Awards are just a few days away. BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) has announced that it will provide its technical expertise for the live webcast of the event for Oscar.com for the second year in a row.
In India the event will air live on Star Movies on 1 March early in the morning. During the live event, BTBS will provide the signal acquisition and encoding for the online pressroom interviews, the backstage interviews with the winners of each Oscar category, as well as the red carpet interviews and the Governors Ball. Prior to the awards, BTBS will encode all movie trailers for the films that are nominated with the final nominations appearing on www.oscar.com for users to watch.
BTBS will provide the signal acquisition from the back stage of the Kodak Theatre to BTBS’ Los Angeles and Washington, DC Media Centers for monitoring purposes. The signal will then be digitally encoded in Windows Media format at the Washington, DC media center for delivery to the Akamai network for distribution on the Oscar.com web site. The viewers will also be able to view the Academy Awards coverage on-demand.
BTBS supplies global broadcast solutions. It provides a range of terrestrial and satellite based multimedia transmission solutions as well as content and customer management services. The group offers flexible, cost effective tailor-made services to an international client base including broadcasters, news agencies, production companies, special event organisers, and large corporations.
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
