Canada-based Telesat have entered into a “strategic commercial agreement” with Arabsat. The deal sees Telesat take a “lifetime” major Ku-band payload on Arabsat-owned Hellas-sat 4 which is currently being procured. Hellas-sat 4 will be ordered this summer and launched in 2017. What the deal means is that Telesat gets access to a powerful new satellite […]

International broadcaster Fashion TV is being sued in an alleged carriage dispute by RRsat. The news emerged during RRsat’s results conference call on March 5th. RRsat’s CFO Shmulik Koren told analysts that during Q4 it had booked a potential bad debt of $490,000 “relating to Fashion TV, a now former customer. “Subsequent to the end […]

Eutelsat Communicationshas announced that Satmex, a provider of fixed satellites services in the Americas, that joined the group in January this year has been renamed Eutelsat Americas. With headquarters in Mexico City and satellite control facilities in Hermosillo and Mexico City, Eutelsat Americas is a key platform for growth across the region. As part of […]

UK free-to-air DTH satellite platform Freesat is to build on recent innovations such as its launch of a mobile companion app and the September 2012 launch of its <Free Time> smart EPG by launching on Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) sets. Addressing a Westminster Forum Keynote Seminar on the prospects for the UK television market, Emma […]

All satellite capacity in India has to be organised via the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) which has a monopoly on supplying transponders, and wholesaling the supply of capacity from non-ISRO satellites. Last year TataSky said it would sue ISRO for not making capacity available. There has been a four-year wait for capacity, not all […]

India DTH market leader Dish TV is launching a sub-brand, Zing, in order to attack regional markets within India and also to differentiate these new services from its core Dish TV brand. Dish TV CEO, in a statement, says that India’s drive towards 100 percent digitisation of its cable services “has fuelled the growth for […]

CignalTV, a Philippines-based DTH broadcaster, saw its subscribers jump 161,000 last year, and helping push its total homes served rise from 441,000 at the end of 2012 to 602,000 at December 31st 2013. Cignal is backed by MediaScape, part of the MediaQuest conglomerate, and transmits from the SES-7 satellite. It launched in February 2009. Current […]

Inmarsat has reported it finished 2013 with an upturn in its core maritime, aviation and land services business, giving it momentum for faster growth in the next two years. The British satellite group, which provides communications to shipping, aircraft and remote locations, reported revenue growth of 5.4 per cent in its core Global MSS business […]

Skyline Communications, a specialist in end-to-end multi-vendor network management solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industry, announces that Skylogic, a European provider of broadband satellite communication services, has expanded its DataMiner end-to-end multi-vendor network management platform to include the management of all antennas in its satellite earth station at Torino, Italy. The […]

Hungary’s pay-TV operators experienced steady growth during last year, and this has extended into January. According to local regulator NMHH the pay-TV sector saw net growth in January of some 16,000 subscribers, taking the total to 3.048 million (3.032m at Dec 31st 2013). Hungary’s cable and IPTV wired services saw the largest growth, up 18,000 […]