SES and MNC Sky Vision, the Indonesian satellite pay-TV provider with its brand Indovision, have announced an agreement to provide capacity on the SES-7 satellite to support Indovision’s future Chinese-language DTH package. The multi-transponder and multi-year deal provides Indovision with access to the Ku-band capacity aboard SES-7 at the prime orbital location of 108.2 degrees […]
Iraqi Media Network is launching a satellite broadcast platform from Baghdad on Arabsat satellites. The platform has been built at the headquarters of the Iraqi Media Network in Baghdad, to broadcast a bouquet on Arabsat satellites on its Hot Spot at 26° East The bouquet includes all radio and TV Programmers for all TV channels […]
Bharti Airtel is in talks with US telco giant Liberty Media to sell a stake in its unlisted DTH business, as compulsory digitisation and higher foreign ownership limit drive firms to seek capital and market reach. According to reports, Bharti has informed three private equity firms that it was keen on selling a larger stake […]
BSkyB is pursuing legal proceedings against the Luxembourg-based M7 Group for trademark infringement in relation to its subsidiary Skylink – a DTH satellite TV platform operating in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. advanced-television.com understands that Sky sees M7 Group’s use of the Skylink brand for its DTH pay-TV operation in Europe as an actionable infringement […]
Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the July 1st catastrophic failure of a Proton-M rocket carrying three GPS satellites. Quoting an investigation committee official, Russia’s TASS news agency stated that the Baikonur prosecutor’s office will be checking whether there was full compliance with the legislation in place to cover the rocket launch. There are […]
India’s largest DTH operator Dish TV is upping the cost of its standard definition digital set-top boxes. They now cost an extra $4.11, taking the price to $36.98, while the DVR version costs a couple of dollars extra at $38.62. Dish is holding the price of its more expensive HD boxes at Rupees 3099 ($51.50). […]
Sun Direct is one of India’s regional DTH players initially serving a mainly Tamil audience. With more than 8 million subscribers (as at January 2013) it is now It is about to take control of Reliance Digital TV. Sun will be taking an 80 percent financial stake in Reliance, and full control. A deal is […]
Russia’s Express-MD1 satellite was lost a week ago and has badly affected TV broadcasting across the country. Some 117 million viewers have been hit by the loss. Engineers say it will take at least 10 days for a full service to be resumed, with Russia’s European viewers and the Ural regions were still affected as […]
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, announced today that it has signed a long-term agreement with Fox International Channels (FIC), 21st Century Fox’s international multi-media business, to support broadcast of its French channels throughout Africa. FIC, which operates more […]
Brazilian pay-TV operator GVT says its DTH service cannot currently comply with the nation’s ‘must carry’ rules of free-to-air services because it does not have spare bandwidth on its satellite. The failure earlier this year of Intelsat-27which would have provide much-needed extra capacity, means it is “impossible” for the obligations to be honoured. Brazil’s regulator […]