Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission is expected to allow viewers to use its subsidised voucher scheme to buy satellite set-top boxes. Up until now the vouchers could only be used to buy digital terrestrial receivers, or new digitally-equipped TV sets. “Even though some network operators plan to expand their coverage, we are worrying that […]
OpenView HD, South Africa’s first free-to-view DTH satellite television platform, will soon also be available on the same satellite dish used to receive DStv, Vivid and Freevision services. Platco Digital, the e.tv sister company which owns OpenView HD, has entered into an agreement with national transmission supplier, SENTECH, to lease space on the IS20 satellite. […]
SES has announced that international sports broadcaster Setanta Sports will be broadcasting two sports channels in HD to 13 countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – via SES’s Astra 5B satellite at the 31.5 degrees East orbital position. Exclusive La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, […]
Eutelsat Communications and Orange have concluded a multi-year agreement for C-band capacity on the Eutelsat 3B satellite that broadens Orange’s satellite capabilities across Africa. The capacity will support a fast response to enterprises by Orange Business Services for communications anytime, anywhere as well as serve Orange’s own internal requirements. The newly leased resources complement C-band […]
BSkyB’s proposed acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland has moved one step closer following an overwhelming vote in favour of a resolution seeking approval of the deal. The resolution was passed by the requisite majority of independent shareholders with 96 per cent voting in favour. BSkyB reports that it continues to progress the satisfaction […]
BSkyB’s shareholders will formally decide today whether to go ahead with the broadcaster’s £5.4 billion (€6.88bn) acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland. There are not likely to be many objectors given that the acquisitions will transform BSkyB into a Europe-wide £22 billion business, and with immense prospects. At the end of the process, BSkyB […]
On August 29th 2014, the GS Group international holding company unveiled its plans for the implementation of the satellite-broadcasting project in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The holding company representatives made a declaration at the first session of the Inter-governmental Russian-Myanmar Commission for trade and economic cooperation. GS Group representatives took part in […]
Brazil’s pay-TV market is increasingly dominated by satellite delivered entertainment. The country’s regulator Anatel says at the end of August DTH technology accounted for 61.75 per cent of the nation’s subscribers. DTH subs totalled 11.88 million, as at August 31st, up 100,000 from July’s 11.78 million. Overall, the market generated a net new subscriber take-up […]
Israel’s AMOS satellite is suffering jamming. Ukraine’s Inter TV is reported to have had some of its shows interrupted. BBC Monitoring is reporting that deliberate interference began on September 28th. The head of the Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), Markiyan Lubkivskyy, said; “In particular, [the signal] is being blocked by means of 500-watt radio waves targeting […]
Egypt’s Nilesat is owed EGP 21 million by broadcasters who have not paid their bills. BBC Monitoring is reporting that the errant channels have been removed from Nilesat’s ‘hot spot’ satellite. In a statement to the Cairo stock exchange Nilesat said the accumulated overdue debt had hit EGP21 million. “According to the contracts with the […]