ViaSat’s plan for its ViaSat-3 global scheme and which includes plans for a broadband satellite over Europe, in which Eutelsat is closely involved, is tapping into European Space Agency (ESA) funding help with a cost-sharing scheme to help develop the consumer terminals and gateway access points for the proposed services. Specialist trade publication Space Intel […]
The debut episode of Blue Planet II, the BBC’s new wildlife series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, is the most watched TV programme of 2017 so far. The episode, which aired on BBC1 on October 29th, was seen by 14.1 million people. The consolidated audience also made it the third most watched TV programme of […]
Foxtel has unveiled its new Foxtel Now box. The plug-in-and-play box delivers seamless access to an line-up of programming, streamed instantly, live or on demand. Foxtel favourites available to stream on the Foxtel Now box, with a Foxtel Now subscription, include Love It or List It Australia, A Place to Call Home, Gogglebox Australia, plus international […]
The Walt Disney Company has announced the appointment of Abhishek Maheshwari as country head for India. Maheshwari joined Disney in 2012 as VP and head of corporate strategy and business development. In 2014, he was put in charge of the consumer products business and earlier this year was also given charge of the company’s Integrated […]
Speedcast, a specialist in providing fully managed, remote communication and IT solutions, and satellite operator SES have announced an agreement to provide several hundreds of Mbps of connectivity into Peru. This is the first agreement between the companies in Latin America to provide Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) capacity with high throughput capabilities and low latency. […]
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services, has been selected by RiksTV, a leading Norwegian digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) provider, to automate monitoring of service availability of RiksTV digital TV and HD TV services. RiksTV offers a wide range of TV and entertainment services for people across Norway, […]
The RSCC and the European company Chronosat have signed a contract stipulating an increased use of RSCC’s Express-AM7 satellite capacity by the European company. The contract was signed at AfricaCom 2017. Yuri Prokhorov, the RSCC General Director, noted: “RSCC has a long record of successful operations in the Middle East and Europe, where we have […]
IRIS.TV, a video personalisation pioneer that enables publishers and marketers to maximize revenue on their owned and operated digital properties, today announced IRIS.TV for Brands, a private marketplace for brands to distribute branded video in-stream alongside contextually relevant content and across hundreds of premium publisher sites and apps. Using augmented intelligence and machine learning technology, […]
CryptoGuard has been awarded the prestigious nomination Gasell Company and also Super Company ranked by the Swedish business magazines “Dagens Industri” and “Veckans Affärer” together with Bisnode. These two nominations are both proofs of being one of Sweden’s fastest growing and profitable companies. The criteria for the Gasell nomination include consistent, organic and profitable growth […]
Pay-TV only subscribers are decreasing in the US, Europe and Australia according to Ampere Analysis. Amongst those taking subscription services, pay TV only subscribers continue to decline, while SVoD only subscribers increase. More than one third of those taking subscription services have both pay-TV and SVoD. In all 11 countries stufes (Spain, Italy, France, Australia, […]