The Walt Disney Company and DISH Network Corporation have announced a long-term, wide-ranging distribution agreement that will provide DISH customers with access to Disney’s line-up of top quality sports, news and entertainment content across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and connected devices. The deal also brings to an end a long-running legal battle over […]
Two interested parties have revised their bids for Israeli satellite operator Space Communication, according to Haaretz, which names Spain’s Hispasat and Hong Kong’s Asia Satellite Telecommunications as those involved. A person close to Shaul Elovitch’s Eurocom group, which controls Space Communication, said there were four or five revised bids but gave no details. Spacecom – […]
Following the surprise news in December 2013 that coverage of internationally-popular Australian saloon car racing series V8 Supercars would move from free-to-air network Seven to pay-TV outlets Foxtel and Fox Sports, with free-to-air network Ten also included in the deal, further details of the 2015-2020 media rights have been revealed. Under the new arrangement, V8 […]
Satellite communications service provider MEASAT is teaming up with broadcast technology services provider Village Island, test and measurement specialist Aviindos and satellite engineering company TotalComm for a demonstration of Asia’s first ever live multiple 4K HEVC satellite uplink/downlink and decoding services on a single DVB-S2 channel and single DVB-T2 channel at the ABU DBS 2014 […]
India has issued some 800 satellite TV licences over the past few years. However, neighbour Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has only issued 91 licences since 2002. Pakistan’s Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid told the National Assembly on Feb 27 that 37 licenses have been issued to Entertainment TV channels, […]
Frost & Sullivan’s survey of 2,035 US consumers from reveals a change in preferences for communication services. The results indicate the market is evolving toward a new dynamic in which services are simply applications delivered via an IP-based connection, whether wired or wireless. The survey also shows
The giant Airbus Group (which used to be known as EADS) has within it a division that manufactures the giant Ariane 5 rockets as part of its Astrium operation which also builds communications satellites used by many of the world’s broadcasters. Astrium received an outline contract last year to build 18 higher-capacity Ariane rockets for […]
The Managing Director of UK satellite Internet Service Provider Satellite Internet is calling local councils to spend some of the latest tranche of rural broadband funding from central government on delivering satellite broadband solutions to reach the final five per cent. It was announced on February 26th that the extra £250 million (€294m) allocated by […]
On February 21st satellite giant Intelsat revealed its end-of-year numbers for 2013, and while we reported that the operator’s all-important contracted backlog had fallen back a worrying $200 million to $10.1 billion (and it was $10.7 billion back in Dec 2012), some observers think there might be other elements of concern. A comment from Armand […]
An alliance of leading satellite industry associations issued a call for application case studies that illustrate the immense contributions of the global satellite industry to business, government and human welfare. The group – made up of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, European Satellite Operators Association, Global VSAT Forum and Satellite Industry Association – is […]