In less than 4 weeks from now a mini-constellation of four satellites will lift off from French Guiana . The project is called O3b (standing for the “other 3 billion) and is designed to provide connection services to these other 3 billion of the planet’s population totally without broadband or without an adequate broadband service. […]
Mumbai-based Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL) reported spectacular revenue growth, and profits, for its FY 2013 results. Net profits grew 21.6 per cent, helped by a claimed 670 million viewers globally to ZEEL’s output spread over 32 channels some of which are available in 169 countries. ZEEL chairman Subhash Chandra said that FY 2012 was […]
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, has announced a long term agreement to enable Word Network, the largest African-American religious network in the US, to reach millions of viewers in Australia, New Zealand and the Arab world. The broadcast […]
Last week SES revealed its latest set of trading numbers and while the company stressed to the market that its underlying trade was doing well, and was expected to grow by 4.5 per cent during the rest of this year, two sets of comments were taken by the market as being of key importance. Item […]
YahLive, the HD television satellite platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, SES, the DTH global satellite broadcast operator, and ChannelSculptor, a Dubai-based TV content and broadcast consultancy, have revealed that whilst MENA may be ahead of Europe in terms of HDTV demand as measured by high HDTV screen sales, increased channel […]
Owen D Kurtin, a highly regarded satellite business observer from the law firm Kurtin PLLC, has suggested Intelsat is burdened down by huge levels of debt which makes it “all but impossible for the company to become profitable.” Intelsat is the largest satellite operator in the world and mounted an IPO in April that raised […]
Uruguay last week cancelled the DTH transmission licence of Claro. Claro is ultimately owned by telco giant America Movil. At the time of the cancellation Claro said it would fight the Uruguayan decision. It has now changed it mind. Claro’s general manager Roberto Alvarellos now says that his company will do nothing, adding that the […]
Arabsat has leased an aging satellite from Telesat of Canada and placed its at the 44.5 degrees East orbital slot where it will be a place-holder until Arabsat can free up one of their fleet. Arabsat is launching 4 new satellites over the next 3 years. Arabsat’s CEO Khalid Balkheyour, speaking exclusively to Inside Satellite […]
SES, one of the world’s largest commercial satellite operators, suffered a decline in earnings in the first quarter after last year’s switch-off of analogue transmissions to Germany. However the company retained its full-year outlook SES, which sells transmission capacity to the likes of BSkyB and India’s Dish TV, said core profit (EBITDA) dropped 4.8 per […]
Dubai-based My-HD is launching a low-cost all-HD bundle of 20 channels exclusively using Arabsat and with the aim of dramatically undercutting the prices charged by the Middle East’s existing pay-TV bouquets of OSN, Al Jazeera Sports and Abu Dhabi Sports. CEO Cliff Nelson, who was until recently SVP-Operations & Platform Development at OSN, and had […]