According to reports from BBC Monitoring, some of Nilesat’s channels are being deliberately jammed. Syria’s General Authority for Radio & Television, Bashar Sabsub, is quoted as saying that Syria’s state-backed satellite channel Syria TV is being jammed. He said that viewers could switch to Syria Drama which would carry the main channel’s output. Sabsub told […]
Russian DTH broadcaster Tricolor TV says it now has more than 5 million of its subscribers viewing in HD. Moreover, Tricolor says that it expects the HD-enabled subscriber count to reach 50 per cent of the overall total during this year. Analysts at J’son & Partners say that Tricolor’s HDTV subs now account for 39.6 […]
DirecTV-15, the broadcaster’s latest satellite, and a key element in its 4K/Ultra HD broadcasting plans, is ready for launch on May 27th by an Arianespace rocket from Kourou in French Guiana. Together with a smaller satellite for its Mexican subsidiary, Sky Mexico-1, the two spacecraft will significantly boost capacity and channels available to viewers over […]
The past few years have seen four giant Proton rockets spectacularly fail and in the process destroying their precious – and expensive – satellite cargoes. The latest, that of Satmex-1, failed on May 16th. There is currently a Failure Review Board investigating the technical problems. But reports from Moscow suggest there may be deeper-rooted problems […]
The global pay-TV services market, including cable TV, satellite TV, telco TV and OTT video, totalled $237 billion in 2014, up 7 per cent from the previous year, according to the 2015 IHS Infonetics Pay-TV Services and Subscribers report.“In a growing number of pay-TV markets, service providers are expanding market presence by offering their own OTT video services, primarily as […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has released statistical and financial information on Canadian terrestrial and satellite broadcast distribution companies for the year that ended August 31st 2014. Overall, these companies’ revenues increased 1.5 per cent from $8.8 billion in 2013 to $8.9 billion in 2014, despite the number of subscribers remaining relatively flat over […]
The launch of DirecTV 15, the US’ most powerful television broadcasting satellite, is scheduled for May 27th from Kourou on board an Ariane 5 launcher. Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, is the prime contractor for both the Ariane 5 launcher and DirecTV 15. “DirecTV 15 is not just the 100th […]
The fallout from the May 16th Proton rocket explosion and the total loss of a Mexican satellite continues to reverberate throughout the industry. SES on May 19th told a banker’s conference in New York that it was very much focusing on using rival launch specialists to Proton (and specifically mentioned Arianespace and SpaceX). SES told […]
DTH operators association of India, apex body of the Indian DTH operators has announced that Anil Khera CEO Videocon d2h will be its new president. Khera was elected unanimously and will be its president for a term of one year. Khera commented: “We will be working together to resolve the issues pertaining to DTH industry. […]
Eutelsat Americas is looking to double its Latino revenues over the next 3-5 years. The news emerged on the sidelines of a Brazilian media conference and is reported in Mexico’s El Economista newspaper. The report said that Eutlesat plans to orbit three new satellites over the next few years and partly in readiness for next […]