MEASAT Satellite Systems has announced a three year agreement with Globecast and Outdoor Channel for distribution on the MEASAT-3 satellite. Under the terms of the agreement, MEASAT will distribute Outdoor HD via MEASAT-3’s global C-band beam, covering 102 countries from Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe and Africa. Outdoor Channel (Asia) is a channel that features […]
Nigeria’s government has ordered an investigation into the financial status of its Nigcomsat operation. Nigeria’s communications minister has placed the satellite company’s MD, Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, on indefinite leave while the investigation into the business is carried out. Ahmed-Rufai started as Project Manager of NigComSat-1, before the establishment of Nigcomsat in April 2006. He was named […]
India’s Videocon d2h branded satellite broadcasting operation is aiming to quickly move into the Top 3 slot amongst India’s hugely competitive DTH broadcasters. Last year (2013) they achieved growth of 26-27 per cent, and taking their total subscriber base to more than 10 million. D2h’s CEO Anil Khera says that 2013 saw a 1TB set-top […]
The UK’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a lower court should take a fresh look at BSkyB’s arrangements for wholesaling its sports content to market rivals, the latest development in a near four-year battle. Comms regulator Ofcom ruled in March 2010 that the satellite broadcaster should make its two main sports channels available to […]
Dish TV is reportedly about to launch a dedicated DTH service for Sir Lanka using capacity on SES’s newly launched SES-8 satellite (launched on December 3rd). SES-8 is co-located with NSS-6 at 95 deg East, and which is already covering the Indian sub-Continent with signals. Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish is on record as saying […]
Arianespace’s giant rocket always takes two ‘passengers’ into space in the form of a pair of satellites. That’s the good news. The bad news is that if one satellite is delayed then the complete launch is held back because the two satellites are deliberately configured for a specific launch. Unfortunately, that’s the problem with a […]
International Launch Services made its 85th Proton launch, sending Turksat 4-A into orbit on February 15th from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (at 21.09, Feb 14 GMT). The satellite was built by Mitsubishi Electric Corp for Turksat and launched by a Proton-Briz M combination rocket and upper stage. This was the first ILS launch this […]
Eutelsat’s CEO Michel de Rosen told analysts early on February 14th that the closing (on January 1st) of its purchase of the Mexico-based SatMex fleet of satellites would lead to a “significant upscaling” of its business over Latin America. De Rosen said the Mexican deal meant and extra $70 million in revenues this half-year, and […]
A poll conducted through the Ipsos Online Omnibus revealed that 74 per cent of adult online Canadians subscribe to Cable TV/Satellite TV/IPTV. Drilling down deeper, among TV Service Subscribers, half (47 per cent) augment or compliment their service by subscribing to or using one or more OTT content services. In fact, just over a quarter […]
Free speech suffered another set-back in Turkey on February 13th when Turkey’s Turksat pulled TV commercials from the country’s best-selling newspaper, Zaman. TV ads for Turksat’s new satellite were also pulled from three other daily newspapers (Bugun, Taraf and Radikal) which are seen as being generally critical of the government. Zaman had long-standing contracts with […]