Satellite operator SES is going to have to wait an extra day for the launch of its extremely important SES-5 craft. Originally scheduled for tonight (June 19/20) it has slipped 24 hours because of “technical problems” with the 58m high Proton/M launch rocket. The satellite is fine. The launch will now take place on the […]
Targeted television advertising specialist Simulmedia and DVR pioneer TiVo have expanded their set-top box data partnership deploying datasets better to address what is seen as TV’s growing audience fragmentation problem. Simulmedia will use TiVo’s anonymous, aggregated, second-by-second set-top-box data to expand Simulmedia’s endemic client base beyond tune-in/promotional advertisers and drive cost-effective reach across all advertiser […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of satellite services, today announced it has signed several capacity agreements with leading media and network services customers in Asia-Pacific. Telecom New Zealand recently expanded its agreement with Intelsat for capacity on Intelsat 18 at 180 degrees East. The company will continue to provide Internet services between New Zealand and […]
Zimbabwean TV viewers are about to lose some of their most popular TV channels. The signals come from neighbouring South Africa, and are broadcast onto satellite by Sentech, South Africa’s state-owned signal carrier. Zimbabwe is claimed to have Africa’s highest broadcast piracy rate. A 3 month transmission ‘grace period’ ended in May following a Johannesburg […]
Intelsat and satellite builder Space Systems/Loral have managed to deploy the ‘stuck’ solar panel on the Intelsat-19 craft. Launched on May 31st, the technicians managed to ‘wobble’ the satellite by making four special apogee manoeuvre rocket firings which create vibrations on the satellite, and which seem to have done the trick. Tests are now taking […]
Canada’s Telesat has started commercial DTH services from its latest satellite, the powerful Nimiq-6. Telesat’s client is DTH pay-TV broadcaster Bell TV which will use all its available capacity. The satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral, and launched a month ago on May 18th. It is operating from 91 deg West.
GlobeCast was chosen this month for the launch in France of new sport channel beIN Sport 1 and, soon, beIN Sport 2. GlobeCast built a comprehensive solution for the channels, including coordinating the various satellite capacities, providing fiber contribution links, and running an IPTV headend for the channels’ distribution. BeIN Sport 1, which launched June […]
Newtec has ushered in a new era of bandwidth efficiency by breaking the 0.5 Gbps two-way throughput over a 72 MHz transponder on a Eutelsat satellite. Testing was performed at Eutelsat’s teleport in Rambouillet and carried out in several steps to validate different market application scenarios. In the two-way high speed backbone tests, Newtec combined […]
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics – Service Provider Quarterly Recap and Guidance: BSkyB (BSY): CYQ1’12 – BSkyB followed up on a strong CYQ4’11 by adding an impressive 212,000 broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2012. At the same time, the company added only 15,000 new pay-TV subscribers. This marks a new […]
Claro only launched its Paraguayan DTH platform in June last year, and says it has already signed up more than 35,000 subscribers. Carlos Calvo, the broadcaster’s business manager, said it was now aiming to have 100,000 subs on its books by the end of this year. Claro says it is the only operator that reaches […]