News

 Kabel Kiosk Bouquet
17/05/2008
Playout247 have launched 7 new channels across Europe on the Kabel Kiosk platform in partnership with MME (Music Media Enterprises).
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 Vox Africa News Station
17/05/2008
Playout247 have completed construction of another broadcast centre in Battersea, London.
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 EPG Converter goes on line
07/02/2008
Playout247 has launched a break-through web service which enables TV channels to create fully compliant EPG schedules for Sky at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.
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 Digital Traffic ready for test launch
06/02/2008
Playout247 announces the launch of Digital Traffic, a new service providing TV platforms with a one-stop shop for video content delivery.
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 Job opportunity in dynamic rapidly growing Playout247
05/02/2008
Playout247 tripled the business over the last twelve months and is now playing ten channels on satellite and thirty-seven on internet.
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 Playout247 expands connectivity
04/02/2008
Playout247 expands connectivity to Eutelsat’s Skylogic teleport in Torino
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MEET THE TEAM

  

MATT VIDMAR
Chairman and CTO
matt@playout247.com 

 


Matt Vidmar has over 23 years of experience in the television broadcast industry. He worked with CFC Ltd as part of the team that pioneered electronic film post-production. CFC won two Oscars for its technical work in this field. Matt founded Connexion in 1988 and ON-AIR Systems in 1997. Matt was the original inventor, introducing to the broadcast market “Integrated Playout” solution:–video servers with build in playout automation, interactive graphics, vision mixing and shared storage, enabling content transfers via the computer networks; technology simplified TV station workflow and drastically decreased running costs. His latest achievement is VisionIPTV™ -totally integrated Internet Broadcast Management and Delivery System, centralizing and simplifying global broadcast and VoD on-line operation.  

 

 

PETRA OBLAK
CEO
petra@playout247.com

 
 
 
  

 

Petra Oblak has nine years of experience managing broadcast services facility and is very well known and regarded within the industry for her talent in managing good client/service provider relationships. She is an expert in all aspects of new TV channel launches from licensing stage to consulting clients how to grow their businesses. 

 

 
 

JOHN MILLS
Group Commercial Director and MD, Vision IP Ltd.
John@visionip.tv

John Mills
 
 


John has had over seven years experience in the IPTV services market working mainly for Video Networks Ltd, an acknowledged pioneer in this field. As Commercial Director, John led the team responsible for exploiting the potential of video on demand and IPTV with third parties. He developed VNL’s proposition to the advertising market, positioning it as an innovative test bed for brands looking to explore the opportunities in a non-linear TV world and striking deals with major brands like Tesco, Honda, P&G and What Car?  John also pioneered VNL’s interactive strategy, bringing immersive web content to the TV screen for applications like real-time information and games. Whilst at Homechoice, John identified a growing interest amongst certain organisations to create their own IPTV platform focused on the specific requirements of particular markets. Prior to joining VNL, John held senior sales roles in Procter and Gamble and Royal Mail.

 

  

TANYA BYCHKOVA
Sales and Marketing Manager
tanya@playout247.com

 
 
 
  

 

Tanya has over six years experience in sales and marketing in the media business.
She joined the Playout247 team almost two years ago and successfully develops good relations with new customers and helps them launch new television channels all over the world. She has a strong academic background of the media industry and speaks few European languages.

 

 

 
  

RONI WHITESIDE
Operations Manager
roni@playout247.com 

 
 
 
  

 

Roni Whiteside has 18 years of software development experience working with Matt Vidmar in very successful architect/executor tandem which produced numerous market leading applications. 

 

 
  

HERMAN KOBYASHEV
Studio Manager
herman@playout247.com

 

 

 
  

 

More info coming soon....  

  
  

NICK JUAN
TX Supervisor
nick@playout247.com 

 
 
 
  

 

More info coming soon.... 

  
  

JANAN ALBAZI
Technical Support Engineer
janan@playout247.com 

 
 
 
  

 

More info coming soon.... 

  
  

HANIEH CHEHRENEGARY
IPTV Assistant and Customer Support
hanieh@playout247.com 

 
 
 
  

 

Hanieh recently joined Playout247 and she is in charge of scheduling, capturing, supervises media ingest and the studios.
Apart from the mentioned roles, she also presents
a few shows on some Sky channels.
 

  

ANYA STRZALKA
Chief Designer
anya@playout247.com

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ADAM ABRAMOWICZ
Chief Developer
adam@playout247.com 

 
 
 

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JACK KRENZEL
R&D Coordinator
jack@playout247.com 

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
support@playout247.com

 
 
 
  

 

More info coming soon...

  
  

TX OPERATORS TEAM
mcr@playout247.com

 
 
 
  

 

Our TX operators are available 24 hours per day, seven days a week, to assist with last minute schedule changes, ingest of new programming and monitoring of the signals.