SatLink has been selected by six Nigerian TV Channels to provide end-to-end broadcast services and content distribution to Central and Pan-Africa on the AMOS 5 satellite Ku-band and C-Band platforms. The broadcasters will also be using SatLink’s end to end broadcast solutions including the company HD Playout Centre services to enable the distribution of the customer’s […]
The gloves are coming off in the €2.4 billion battle in a New York courtroom between Cablevision/VOOM and EchoStar/DISH. Lawyer Orin Snyder, acting for Cablevision, told Judge Richard Lowe III that this past weekend’s enforced release of documents held by EchoStar showed that “the entire defense is a massive fraud. I am not mincing words,” […]
Zee TV-backed Dish TV has passed the 140,000 subscriber mark for its HDTV bouquet of channels. They are paying around $8.50 a month for the extra HDTV bouquet of channels. While the number of HDTV viewers is modest, at least out of Dish’s 13.5 million core subscriber base, it shows that there is enthusiasm for […]
EchoStar’s lawyers received a dressing down from Judge Richard Lowe III in a New York courtroom on October 12th, who told them bluntly: “Everybody involved in this litigation [for Dish] has no credibility when it comes to document exchange, when it comes to turning everything over [to the plaintiffs] you’ve been directed to turn over,” […]
YahLive has announced it has won 6 HDTV channels from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Information. YahSat is the UAE-owned satellite that is focusing on exclusive HDTV broadcasting over the Middle East. YahLive is its DTH operation, and where SES Astra has the marketing rights for television. By any measure this is a major coup for […]
SatLink Communications, a teleport and HD Playout Centre delivering content to every corner of the world, has been selected by six Nigerian TV Channels to provide end-to-end broadcast services and content distribution to Central and Pan-Africa on the AMOS 5 satellite Ku-band and C-Band platforms. The broadcasters will also be utilising SatLinkâs end to end […]
Avanti Communications is a London-based satellite operator supplying capacity (mainly) for broadband-by-satellite services. In August it launched its second satellite, Hylas-2, itself the topic of some negative publicity. But the stock market has quite definitely fallen out of favour with the company. Not helping are poor results, well below market expectations and the company’s own […]
NSR’s second installment of the Satellite Operator Financial Analysis study finds that the FSS sector remains robust in financial terms, with continued revenue growth in the outlook, while imminent IPOs and further industry consolidation (GE Satellite, KT Satellite) continue to shape the industry. In addition, the relatively recent and widespread trend of increased cost control […]
Intelsat, a provider of global satellite services, has announced new agreements with two Bulgarian media companies for Intelsat transponder services to enable DTT and distribution of HD programming. Under the first agreement, Nurts, the primary tower company and sole DTT operator in Bulgaria, will use capacity on Intelsat 12 at 45 deg East to contribute […]
Satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa will soon be gaining powerful new broadcasting resources following the order by Eutelsat Communications of a new satellite from Thales Alenia Space. Called Eutelsat 8 West B, the high-capacity spacecraft will be launched in 2015 to 8° West, joining satellites already operated at the adjacent 7° […]