First-Ever Targa Newfoundland Livestream Debuts at IBC 2026 for Rally’s 25th Anniversary

WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 3, 2026--

With Targa Newfoundland's 25th anniversary livestream now days away, IBC 2026 attendees can watch North America's only tarmac rally come to life on the show floor at the Dejero, Eutelsat, FOR-A, GlobalM, Grabyo and Matrox Video stands. Dejero, ADLINK Technology, Eutelsat and Intel serve as presenting sponsors of the broadcast.

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"Every partner in this ecosystem plays a key role in building dynamic, future-forward workflows," said Sukhvir Grewal, Sales Account Manager at Dejero, who led the production workflow development connecting Targa Newfoundland to IBC in Amsterdam. " Dejero TITAN blends cellular with LEO satellite over a private 5G network, keeping race cars, camera crews, and emergency vehicles connected in terrain that's never carried a live signal before. That same connection getting the broadcast out is also keeping emergency teams in touch with race control. That matters just as much as the stream itself."

Where to watch at IBC

The live production feed from Newfoundland's coastal roads will be visible at partner booths throughout the show at RAI Amsterdam, September 11–14. Hosting the broadcast are two-time Targa Newfoundland champions Randy Pobst, Professional Racing Driver, and Paul Abbott, Navigator, along with Ivy Cuervo, Dejero executive and former CTV and CBC News broadcast journalist.

Eutelsat’s demo vehicle at the outdoor exhibits, 0.A26, is doubling as a live interview setup where attendees can hear directly from the teams behind the broadcast.

“Targa Newfoundland shows exactly how satellite connectivity is transforming live media production, from the roads of Newfoundland to the show floor in Amsterdam," said Cristiano Benzi, SVP Global Video Products Development at Eutelsat. "Eutelsat's OneWeb connectivity lets broadcasters capture and transmit live content from virtually anywhere, using compact User Terminals that bridge on-site video directly to an IP cloud ecosystem. Our demo vehicle will also be on display in the IBC outdoor exhibition area, so attendees can meet the team and see firsthand how it's done.”

Critical Connectivity, Built for Safety First

Because the same blended network carries both the broadcast and the race's emergency communications, the technology on display at IBC is doing double duty. Private 5G fronthaul from BLiNQ Networks and connectivity integration from Network Innovations mean emergency vehicles stay in constant contact with race control across stretches of road with no cellular coverage at all, before a single frame of video ever reaches YouTube.

"Our job is making sure the network holds up in the places where nothing else does," said Gregg Patterson, VP of Sales at Network Innovations. "In terrain with no cellular coverage, that reliability isn't just nice to have, it's what keeps race control connected to every vehicle on course, and it's the foundation the entire broadcast is built on."

From Stand to Stand: The Workflow on the Show Floor

Attendees walking the RAI Amsterdam floor can trace the entire broadcast workflow in person: video from Targa's TITAN-equipped vehicles and EnGo units routes through GlobalM for multi-point distribution, into Grabyo and Jetwerx for cloud production and graphics via Tagboard, out through Matrox Video encoding, and onto the FOR-A and Eutelsat stands where it airs live.

To learn more, visit dejero.com/targa-ibc and subscribe to the @TargaNewfoundlandOfficial to watch the action.

About Dejero

Driven by its vision of reliable connectivity anywhere, Dejero delivers real-time video and networking solutions that provide resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for critical communications. Powered by intelligent network aggregation technology, Dejero combines diverse telecommunication networks including 4G/5G cellular, GEO/MEO/LEO satellite, and fixed broadband, to create a software-defined ‘network of networks’ managed in the cloud. The result is enhanced reliability, expanded coverage, and greater bandwidth for its global customers. Founded in 2008, privately-held Dejero is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Learn more at www.dejero.com.

First-Ever Targa Newfoundland Livestream Debuts at IBC 2026 for Rally’s 25th Anniversary

First-Ever Targa Newfoundland Livestream Debuts at IBC 2026 for Rally’s 25th Anniversary

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man who had been held prisoner in Israel was released Thursday, the first such handover since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war six months ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Lebanese officials said.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Israel had agreed to release five Lebanese civilians detained by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon after Lebanon provided assistance in searching for the bodies of Lebanese Jewish leaders who were “abducted and murdered by terrorist organizations” in the 1980s, during Lebanon’s civil war.

The first released prisoner, identified as Malek Ghazi, was handed over to the Lebanese army via the Red Cross, a Lebanese security official said. A second official said they were anticipating the release of another prisoner. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

Ghazi was handed over to the ICRC at the border crossing in the coastal town of Naqoura on Lebanon's southern frontier and was then transferred to a Lebanese army intelligence office in the city of Tyre, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

Netanyahu's statement said the five Lebanese captives after interrogation were found not to be “members of a terrorist organization” or “involved in terrorism.”

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam thanked the U.S. and its ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa, for assisting in the release.

“We will continue working until all our prisoners are released, the fate of the missing is revealed, and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory is achieved,” he said in a statement.

Dozens of Lebanese prisoners are believed to be held in Israeli detention centers, including civilians as well as Hezbollah militants captured during fighting in southern Lebanon.

The circumstances of Ghazi’s capture were not immediately clear, but one of the Lebanese officials said he was a civilian.

The prisoner release came as talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials had appeared to reach an impasse. Lebanon and Israel in June signed a U.S.-mediated framework deal under which Israeli forces were to withdraw from areas they are occupying in southern Lebanon in exchange for disarmament of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, but little progress has been made in implementation on the ground.

Another round of talks is expected to take place in Rome later this month.

“However difficult the negotiation process may seem, we will continue to mobilize all necessary efforts to safeguard Lebanon’s rights and the interests of the Lebanese people,” Salam's statement said.

Hezbollah is not a party to the Lebanon-Israel talks and has said it will not give up its weapons in any area north of southern Lebanon's Litani river. Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said they will not withdraw unless Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country.

The Lebanese state has been reluctant to attempt to forcibly disarm the militant group, which is also a political party and social services provider with a large popular base in the country's Shiite Muslim community.

Lebanon fought a brutal civil war from 1975 to 1990, and many fear that any clash between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah could spiral into another devastating civil conflict.

Hezbollah and Israel have fought a series of wars since the militant group was founded with Iranian support in the 1980s to combat Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon at the time. Their latest war began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired missiles over the border, two days after the U.S. and Iran attacked Iran.

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Saeed reported from Herzliya, Israel.

Smoke and flames rise as Israeli forces demolish homes in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

An Israeli tank takes a position in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Smoke rises as Israeli forces demolish homes in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)