According to the latest estimates by Eres from March 2012, the number of Italian DTT households (at least one receiver in the primary residence) rose to about 22.8 million. This figure represents an increase of just under 500,000 units compared to the survey in December 2011/January 2012, taking the DTT penetration rate to 91.5 per cent. Also growing is the [...]
Portuguese cable TV operator Cabovisão is allegedly not paying its content providers, especially suppliers of news and thematic channels, according to local media reports. Although the operator has not commented on this subject, the financial situation of Cabovisão has been in the news in recent weeks. The same sources admit that this interruption in payments could be a strategy to [...]
Arianespace celebrated its 300th satellite launch from its Kourou space centre by successfully lifting Japan’s JCSAT-13 and Vietnam’s VinaSat-2 satellites into orbit. The Japanese satellite will be used by Sky Perfect/JSAT for DTH transmissions, while Vietnam’s craft is to be operated by the country’s Posts & Telecoms company. These were the 300th and 301st satellites to be launched from French [...]
The Qatari Television Support and Development Committee (TVSDC) has selected Grass Valley for a major modernisation project for Qatar TV. Grass Valley will be providing a complete master control room solution for the new Broadcast Centre in Doha. The design for Qatar TV’s new Broadcast Centre focuses on adaptive and flexible workflows, while being future-proofed for emerging technologies, such as [...]
Sky Deutschland has reported its first-quarter operating loss improved to €40.6 million. The company added 73,000 new subscribers at the end of March, slightly better than forecast. The pay-TV broadcaster increased first quarter revenues by 18 per cent to €318 million. “Germany and Austria are amongst the highest potential markets for pay-TV across Europe, and the acceleration of demand across [...]
Canal Plus France, including its pay TV operations in mainland France, and Africa, attracted 211,000 new subscribers during the first quarter, ending March with a total of 12,817,000 customers. Revenues increased slightly to €1.03 billion from €1 billion a year ago. In France, ARPU increased €47.6. In Poland and Vietnam, the Vivendi-owned operator attracted 81,000 pay TV customers, ending March [...]
The big four networks plus ESPN, Discovery, History, USA, Food Network and TNT are the top ten TV brands American consumers can’t do without, according to the latest edition of the “Must Keep TV” report from Solutions Research Group (SRG). ABC was identified as the top “must-keep” TV brand in by 51 per cent of all respondents overall, narrowly beating [...]
An NSR report has found that the satellite manufacturing and launch markets are facing both softening demand and increasing competition until 2016. However, in the second half of the next decade the manufacturing market will be back on an upward track, while the launch services market will see more years of stagnant growth. Driven by intense competition and soft demand [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, content localisation, disaster recovery [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, has announced that it is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, [...]
