Pan-regional sports entertainment service Eurosport has once again topped the Ipsos survey, formerly EMS, confirming it as the most widely reaching multimedia platform (TV, website and mobile) for upscale Europeans, reaching 31 per cent of the top 20 per cent income households across Europe each week. The sample targets the main income earner in the […]
RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service broadcaster has signed a two-year agreement with Europasat to use the NewsSpotter newsgathering service provided by Eutelsat Broadband. RTÉ will use NewsSpotter for live satellite transmissions of news and recorded video and audio content from areas with limited or no access to high-speed terrestrial broadband. RTÉ will be using three […]
According to David Watkins, Strategy Analytics’ Director Connected Home Devices, Sky is set to lose the TV innovation lead to BT for the first time in over 20 years, following the telco’s announcement of a Ultra-HD sports channel launch. “Being first to market with a UHD sports channel
About 455 million digital homes were added around the world between end-2010 and end-2014, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. This took the digital TV household total for the 138 countries covered in the Digital TV World Databook report to 1,045 million. Digital TV penetration climbed
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced its pay-TV service, Mediaset Premium, will be available via satellite from February or March 2016. A new multi-platform decoder is being developed that will be able to receive digital terrestrial, broadband as well as digital satellite transmissions. This will enable Mediaset Premium to extends its premium offer (football, movies […]
Satellite operator SES is not having the best of years, if you just look at their top line revenue prospects. But dig a little deeper, and according to a detailed report from investment bank Berenberg, and investors will find plenty to be enthusiastic about. The period Q4/2014 to the end of 2014 was good for […]
Following last week’s record results for India’s largest satellite pay-TV operator Videocon d2h, the company now says that it expects the first half of its financial year t generate as many gross new additions as the whole of the year which ended March 31st 2015. The new 2016 trading year should deliver another 1.3-1.4 million […]
Markus Fritz, Director, Commercial Development and Marketing at Eutelsat, has admitted the satellite operator is more confident at the prospects for Ultra HD, noting that there is greater content availability and broadcaster interest than had been anticipated previously. At a Press Briefing, Fritz noted that a number of factors requited to make Ultra HD happen […]
A man from the north-east of England has escaped a prison sentence despite making over £46,000 (€63,000) by illegally supplying satellite television channels. Alexander Woodmass had around 50 customers, including pubs and clubs in the North-East, who paid him for their Sky coverage. Durham Crown Court was told the fraud potentially cost the broadcaster £112,000 […]
Exclusive Ultra HD content broadcast in the Hot Bird 4K1 channel operated by Eutelsat Communications continues to expand and diversify with new input from SPI International and Anixe HD Television. SPI International, operator of more than 30 TV channels on four continents, and German broadcaster Anixe are both displaying original new content at the Anga […]