February 9th will see Eutelsat unveil its first-half year results. Equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNP-Paribas, in a report February 1st, say they expect the satellite operator to report a 4 per cent fall in organic revenues and not helped by a 2 per cent drop in the company’s all-important Video revenues and a significant […]
Global industry association WorldDAB has completed a comprehensive review and revision of the DAB digital radio standard, identifying obsolete features, clarifying the description of features to aid interoperability and updating specific features. This work ensures that the system standard is fit for the future. The work was carried out by the WorldDAB Technical Committee, marking […]
Telenor’s two satellite-based divisions, Canal Digital DTH and Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) were both under revenue pressures last year. Canal Digital DTH suffered during Q4 (at NOK 1.098 million, compared with NOK 1.172 in 2015), while its Norkring transmission business saw Q4 revenues of NOK 280 million (NOK 286 million in 2015). Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s […]
FremantleMedia it is restructuring its UK production business to reflect the changing demands in the television industry. The company is bringing together its entertainment and factual labels – Thames, Boundless and Talkback – under one genre umbrella, focusing on unscripted content. The labels will continue to exist, but the new unscripted structure will allow all […]
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced that five more companies have joined the organisation as associate members. Artel Video Systems is a global provider of broadcast-quality media transport solutions for direct fiber, IP, and managed optical networks. A pioneer in the industry, Artel developed the first commercially available video-over-fibere transport platform. BFE […]
UK cellular and TV distribution business Arqiva is up for sale. Arqiva has a near monopoly for the distribution of the UK’s digital terrestrial TV signals, and handles most of the Britain’s cellular towers. The company’s owners include pension funds under the control of Australian bank Macquarie, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Sources […]
Although not quite taking it to the 11th hour, with news emerging mid-evening UK time, pay-TV platform Sky and multi-channel programmer Discovery have agreed a carriage deal which means Discovery’s portfolio of 12 channels will continue to be available on Sky and Discovery Channel will continue to be available on NOW TV in the UK […]
Apple has announced financial results for Q1 2017 ended December 31st 2016. The Company posted all-time record quarterly revenue of $78.4 billion (€72.6bn) and all-time record quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.36. These results compare to revenue of $75.9 billion and earnings per diluted share of $3.28 in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 […]
TalkTalk says its customers are reaping the rewards of the value for money provider’s radical changes to its business. Revealing its Q3 results, the UK telco said it made “an unquestionable return to its challenger roots last year by offering a new range of plans, which guarantee no broadband price increases for the entirety of […]
EchoStar (which is listed as SATS) has swapped certain assets with its pay-TV sister company, Dish Network (which trades as DISH). EchoStar takes care of the portfolio of satellites in orbit as well as the supply and management of its set-top box division. However, the key assets closely involve another Charlie Ergen-backed operation, Hughes Retail […]