Freesat, the UK subscription-free DTH satellite TV service, has launched the Freesat App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, confirming its immediate availability on the App Store. The app acts as a TV guide for all free TV viewers, so Freesat suggests that whether it’s enjoying brand new British drama such as Call the Midwife […]
The London stock exchange has seen a dramatic improvement in the share price of BSkyB over the past few days (up 33p on Jan 14 to £8.71) as speculation mounts that Rupert Murdoch might be planning another method of consolidating 21st Century Fox’s stake into either a ‘Sky Europe’ or perhaps seeing a merger between […]
NHK says it has added an extra 23 million potential viewing homes for its NHK World TV channel, taking the total distribution (at the end of December) to more than 270 million. Already this year (and since January 1st 2014) broadcasting has also commenced in Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia through satellite operators resulting in a […]
Just before the holiday, Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat wrapped up its €834 million purchase of Mexico’s Satmex fleet of satellites. The deal means that this year’s income – and likely profit – for Eutelsat is completely changed. One bank, Kepler Cheuvreux, has taken a close look at Eutelsat’s prospects given that Satmex’s revenues are now […]
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of digital content management and global content distribution services to the broadcasting industry, has been awarded a tender by Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), Hungary’s public service media organisation, to expand broadcast of Duna World TV channel and Duna World Radio worldwide. The tender will generate […]
Hot on the heels of the successful launch of Thailand’s Thaicom-6 satellite into orbit, SpaceX has received an order from Japan’s SkyPerfect for the launch of its JCSAT-14 communications satellite. The launch is slated for the second-half of 2015. The launch contract is another huge success for SpaceX, and if there is a winner in […]
Italian DTH platform TivuSat activated 320,000 new smart cards in 2013, taking the total to 2,044,000. Sicily, Lombardy and Piedmont were the regions where TivuSat recorded the highest growth over the past year. Calabria, Liguria and Molise are the regions where the DTH platform has the highest penetration rate, as these parts of the country […]
DTT has become the most popular technology to watch TV in Spain, well ahead of others such as satellite and cable. In 2013, 82.8 per cent of TV consumption was made through DTT against cable’s (and ADSL) 12.9 per cent and satellite’s 4.3 per cent, according to Kantar Media data reported by Barlovento Comunicacion. While […]
Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has been selected to provide broadcast services on AMOS-5 at 17°E for the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) Orange African Nations Championship (CHAN), Africa’s annual football championship competition. South Africa is hosting the 2014 competition which will take place January 11th through February 1st 2014. Every single […]
Satellite operations and video delivery solutions provider EchoStar Corp has acquired 100 per cent ownership of Solaris Mobile Ltd., the Eutelsat/SES joint-venture next-generation mobile satellite services (MSS) operator based in Dublin, Ireland and one of the European Union licensees of mobile satellite service with a complementary ground component (S band). Solaris Mobile Ltd is deploying […]