Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 2005 (as Red Bee Media) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Thorsten Sauer (Head of Broadcast & Media Services) |
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Number of employees
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Approximately 2,500 (Q4 2014) |
| Parent | Ericsson |
| Website | www |
Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services (EBMS), formerly Red Bee Media, is a British broadcasting and media services company headquartered in Ealing, West London, United Kingdom, with offices in Manchester, Glasgow and international offices in Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, United States and Abu Dhabi. EBMS has 2,500 employees worldwide across 8 media hubs and distributes over 2.7 million hours of programming each year worldwide. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson.
Clients include television broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, BSkyB, TV4, TV5Monde, Canal+ and Channel 4 as well as brands such as Barclays, Bacardi and Hyundai. EBMS transmits over 500 television streams on analogue, digital terrestrial, digital satellite, cable, web and mobile, among them all the domestic BBC channels (except for BBC Parliament, the production and playout of which is handled by Millbank Studios), along with international channels including BBC World News, BBC Worldwide and BBC Lifestyle and have a presence in over 180 countries and territories across the globe. It handles the majority of video on demand (VOD) services in the UK, including the BBC (BBC iPlayer) and Channel 4 (4oD).
Red Bee Media was formerly BBC Broadcast Limited. BBC Broadcast was created by the BBC in 2002, by placing a range of BBC channel creation and channel management services under one roof. It was part of an agreement with the British government to create a commercial division that could supplement the BBC's income from the television licence, thus keeping the licence fee increases down in the future. The other entities within the commercial division were BBC Worldwide, BBC Resources, BBC Ventures and BBC Technology.
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