Italy’s digital communications market was worth over €27 billion in 2023, reversing a long-term decline although still 10 per cent down compared to 2019. According to the annual report of the Italian Communications Authority (AgCom), overall broadband lines reached around 19.12 million units (+110,000 on an annual basis), counterbalancing the decline in DSL lines. AgCom […]

                                                                  Luxembourg-based M7 Group, owned by Canal+ Group and one of Europe’s leading pay-TV providers, has concluded an agreement with BBC Studios for the […]

Satellite operator SES and major German-language broadcaster RTL Deutschland have renewed and extended their transmission contracts. Their long-running relationship, serving Germany and Austria, will now run to the end of the decade. RTL Deutschland’s TV broadcasts will also continue to be available on HD+, SES’s high-definition satellite TV platform in Germany. The new agreement, which covers […]

Eutelsat Group and TVN, the Polish subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), have agreed a new, multi-year, multi-transponder agreement renewing and expanding the group’s capacity at Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD video neighbourhood. Under the deal, TVN will leverage the premium HOTBIRD capacity to enhance its services across its existing footprint as well as to support its broadcast […]

Malaysia’s Measat has signed an agreement with Sun TV Network, one of India’s largest media conglomerates, to support the distribution of 37 TV channels via the Measat-3d satellite. These channels broadcast in seven languages, will reach over 140 million households in India and extend to audiences in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Africa. “Measat is […]

The number of TV channels broadcasting in Italy has been steadily decreasing over the past decade, dropping from 389 in 2012 to 343 in 2022 and 316 in 2023, according to a report published by Confindustria Radio Televisioni. At the end of 2023, there were 268 nationally-produced channels, a drop of 18 per cent compared […]

Measat, the Malaysian premier satellite solutions provider, has signed with SPOTV via its subsidiary SPOTV Media Solutions to support SPOTV’s Asia Pacific playout operations from the Measat Teleport and Broadcast Centre (MTBC) in Cyberjaya. The scope of the agreement entails the provision of Measat’s teleport facilities to enable SPOTV’s Broadcast Production Suite and Data Centre […]

Luxembourg-based pay-TV provider, M7 Group, owned by Canal+ Group has concluded an agreement with Prague-based Prima Group for the satellite distribution of Prima COOL SK and Prima LOVE SK in the Slovak market. Following the agreement, Prima COOL SK has launched via the M7-owned Skylink TV platform at ASTRA 23.5 East. Prima COOL SK offers […]

DISH Network and Hughes Network Systems, both EchoStar companies, have unveiled a new bundled service offering that brings the power of DISH satellite TV together with Hughesnet satellite Internet to create what they describe as a superior solution in TV and Internet for rural America. With this bundle, they say that rural consumers – who […]

SES has announced that its Ethiosat platform at the 57 degrees East orbital position now delivers content to 17 million TV households in Ethiopia, an increase of 7 million compared to 2022, with its reach penetration growing to 95 per cent. The Ethiopian TV market has undergone a continuous rapid expansion as the number of […]