London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications is going ahead and building Hylas-4. It will issue a new round of debt in the form of 10 per cent bonds, due for repayment in 2019. Investors didn’t much like the news and marked Avanti’s share price down 37p to £2.82 on June 12th trading. Avanti operates a […]
AsiaSat-5 is now carrying two beIN Sports channels in HDTV for the Al Jazeera-backed sports broadcaster. The channels are already available for viewers to AsiaSat-5 in Hong Kong and Thailand. The two beIN Sports channels, named beIN Sports 1 and 2, feature a range of sports content including the most extensive and complete coverage of the Italian Serie […]
Space Systems/Loral (SSL) and AsiaSat have announced that AsiaSat 8 has arrived at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will be launched aboard a Falcon 9 launch vehicle by SpaceX. The satellite is currently being prepared for a July launch which will mark the first Falcon 9 launch for both AsiaSat […]
Intelsat, provider of satellite services, has announced that the world’s leading news and sports programmers are using Intelsat’s global satellite services and IntelsatOneSM terrestrial network to televise the 2014 World Cup being held in Brazil. Intelsat’s global satellite fleet will support contribution services within Brazil and distribution of the World Feed to the Americas. Intelsat […]
European pay-TV revenues will reach $40.35 billion in 2014, up from $36.87 billion in 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The European Digital TV Databook (covering 39 countries) reveals that the 2014 total will only increase by 0.6 per cent on 2013 as ARPUs are
Intelsat, provider of satellite services, has signed a 15-year service agreement with MultiChoice, Africa’s leading pay TV provider, on a new satellite to be added to the Intelsat network. The new satellite, Intelsat 36, is expected to launch in late 2016 and will be co-located with Intelsat 20 at 68.5˚E, Intelsat’s premier direct-to-home (DTH) neighborhood […]
Having lost its live rights to UEFA Champions League matches from the 2015/16 season to competitor BT Sport, UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is fighting back with what it describes as good news for millions of its customers ahead of the new football season, with confirmation that Sky Sports is to launch the first ever television […]
In the wake of recent jamming incidents reported by Arabsat and Eutelsat, the Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) has praised the continued success of Geolocation technology, which is becoming more and more efficient, for discovering the source of the interference. “Along with the rest of the industry, we condemn these actions against legitimate customer services,” […]
Satellite operator MEASAT and satellite communications specialist Newtec are teaming up to deliver 4K Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) content via transmission scheme DVB-S2X to the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center at the forthcoming CommunicAsia 2014 expo. According to the pair, the extensions to the DVB-S2 standard will be instrumental for the satellite […]
Riyad Najm, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Audio-Visual Media Commission (AVMC), and a former senior official in the county’s information ministry, said the Kingdom was revisiting how it regulated and licensed broadcasters and on-line news websites. He even hinted that cinemas might be allowed. His wide-ranging discussion to Riyadh’s Press Forum he also discussed the possibility […]