Intelsat confirmed Sunday Aug 19th that a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL vehicle successfully launched its Intelsat 21 satellite from a mobile platform in the Pacific Ocean. Intelsat 21 will serve DTH and cable programmers in Latin America and once in-orbit testing is wrapped up replacing its Intelsat 9 craft. Intelsat-21 is designed to provide more […]
Russia’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has set mid-September as the deadline for the nation’s space agency to get its act together and propose ways to boost quality control for its troubled Proton rocket system. Earlier in August a Proton rocket failed to launch two satellites into orbit, representing another severe body-blow to Russia’s credibility as […]
SatLink Communications, a teleport and HD Playout Centre, has announced a partnership with Telesat, the global satellite services operator, to deliver TV programming to Latin America on a new Ku-band MCPC DVB-S2 platform utilising Telesat’s Telstar 12 satellite. This new service will provide international broadcasters the means to cost effectively distribute HD & SD channels […]
Dish Network, the USA’s second-largest satellite pay-TV operator, is to roll out a national broadband-by-satellite service. EchoStar-17 is the orbiting vehicle which will provide the service, and between EchoStar, Hughes (an EchoStar subsidiary) and the portfolio of satellites could handle up to 2 million customers. Service is said to be likely to start this autumn, […]
On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVoD packages and the Internet) will reach $6.0 billion in 2017, up from $3.9 billion in 2011 and $2.3 billion in 2007, according to findings from Digital TV Research. The On-demand TV Revenue […]
Findings from research and analysis specialist Leichtman Research Group suggest that the thirteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – lost about 325,000 net additional video subscribers in Q2 2012. Quarterly net multi-channel video losses in Q2 2012 were only about 1,500 more than in […]
Sky and UPC have concluded a commercial agreement that will see UPC continue to offer its customers in the Republic of Ireland a range of Sky’s most popular entertainment, news, sports and movies channels through its cable TV service. As part of an enhanced agreement, HD versions of a range of Sky’s channels will also […]
Thailand’s satellite operator Thaicom has declared a profit for its H1 trading, and says that operating profits were Thai Baht 198 million (about $6.2 million) which almost matches a THB 192 million operating loss in the same period last year. Thaicom, once known as Shin Satellite, said the about-turn is almost entirely due to its […]
Research from analyst firm IHS suggests that subscriber additions for US pay-TV operators fell by nearly 350,000 in the second quarter – the largest subscriber drop in history – as weakening economic conditions and strengthening competition from over-the-top (OTT) players such as Netflix continue to work against cable operators and even against the satellite segment. […]
The consensus is that Sky Deutschland’s Q2 numbers, out August 14, will be solidly respectable and continue the gains of recent quarters. Investment banker Morgan Stanley reminds us that Q1’s numbers showed gross adds of 155,000 (net about 73,000) for the quarter-year, churn of some 10.8 per cent (annualised) and monthly ARPU of €31.76. For […]