India’s largest DTH platform is to start building its own set-top boxes. The main benefit, apart from controlling its production and supply demands, seems to be to save import duties, as well as to boost profit margins on today’s imported devices. Jawahar Goel, MD at Dish TV, speaking at the broadcaster’s recent financial results event, […]
Pay-TV platform Sky Deutschland has launched what it describes as a new, easy, and flexible way to experience its content, at home or on the go. For the first time, the new, standalone online TV service Sky Online makes it possible for everyone without a traditional Sky subscription to register at www.skyonline.de and immediately enjoy […]
Mumbai-based Dish TV reported that it had added 378,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter (to September 30th) taking its total subscriber base to more than 12.1 million. However, despite increasing revenues 12.13 percent and being helped by a growth in HDTV subs, the broadcaster saw a net loss of $2.46 million (INR 151m). ARPU […]
Intelsat’s Q3 numbers showed the operator is still under pressure with quarterly revenues falling from $651.8 million last year to $608.6 million (down 6.6 per cent year-on-year) in the three months to September 30th. There were revenue falls in all of Intelsat’s key divisions, including its all-important Network Services which registered a fall in revenues […]
HD+, a provider of high-definition, free-to-air satellite channels to the German market, has joined the FreeTV Alliance, the broadcast industry association that was revealed at IBC by Fransat, Freesat and Tivùsat to promote the harmonisation of free-to-view satellite TV services and technology across Europe. HD+ had been expected to join the Alliance at launch, but […]
After an emergency aircraft landing made in the early hours of October 28th, the giant Antonov-124 cargo plane took off from the Ulyanovsk airstrip later in the day having fixed the errant engine. The aircraft was carrying Astra 2G for SES of Luxembourg, scheduled for launch later next month. Taisia Nikitenko, a PR spokesperson for […]
Telenor’s Q3 results show that its satellite broadcasting division suffered reduced revenues (year-on-year) falling from 2013’s NOK 241 million (€28.4m) to NOK 238 million. Telenor said revenues and EBITDA decreased partly due to lower revenues from TV distribution and offset by higher revenues from data communications. This translated into EBITDA revenues falling from NOK 171 […]
Yahlive, Alef Technology and SVS Satellite Systems announced their collaboration by which SVS will design and integrate a new DTH platform based in Kabul, Afghanistan. The DTH platform will be operated by Alef Technology and will consist of a BSS RF and baseband system, supporting the transmission of SD and HD television channels over the […]
A giant Russian Antonov aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing around 3am (GMT) October 28th at a remote airfield with a failed engine. The aircraft was carrying Astra 2G, a satellite due for launch next month from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. Initial Russian reports say that the landing was “smooth” and […]
O3b is the SES and Google-backed satellite constellation planning to reach the “other 3 billion” people who do not have adequate Internet access. It currently has 8 satellites in orbit and its next quartet of satellites will launch into space on December 18th. The launch will complete Phase 1 of O3b’s plans. The satellites will […]