UK communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva has signed fresh “long term, multiple transponder” capacity contracts with SES. The frequencies were previously held by Eutelsat, and the switch comes about because of the legal victory achieved by SES and announced September 16th. This fresh capacity agreement secures transmission for Arqiva’s many customers beaming channels […]
New Zealanders are spending more time than ever on the Internet, but traditional media still plays an important role in their lives, according to findings in a Digital Universe report from Roy Morgan Research. In fact TV, radio and print still account for 71.4 per cent of the time Kiwis spend with media per day. […]
The EC has ruled that state subsidies to extend DTT across the country are illegal and has given Spain a four month-period to pay back €260 million that the Spanish government approved in its financial aid scheme to deploy DTT. The EC has taken the decision on the grounds that technology neutrality was not respected […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI and its transmission unit Rai Way have won the first class action brought against them by a group of DTT subscribers. The case brought by 123 subscribers came before the Administrative Regional Court of Lazio. They demanded the repayment of three years of TV licence fee, i.e. from the start of […]
Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunicatons Commission has ‘sold’ 49 bid documents to a total of 33 companies over the past few days. Each is seeking capacity on one of the 24 commercial TV licences on the nation’s digital terrestrial system. The broadcasting regulator is in the preliminary stage for the digital terrestrial TV auction which […]
Wananchi Group has a growing portfolio of DTH and digital terrestrial TV platforms throughout East Africa. It says it is seeking up to $100 million in fresh cash to fund expansion on its Zuku-TV platforms. CEO Richard Bell says the cash – and a minimum of $50m is being sought – will be further invested […]
The European TV market grew by a modest 0.9 per cent in 2012, reaching a value of €95.1 billion, while advertising revenues were down almost four per cent to €31 billion, according to the “Turning Digital” report from Italian consultancy ItMedia Consulting. Despite growing by 3.7 per cent, the pay-TV market is slowing down and […]
SES has won the first stage of a bitter arbitration dispute with rivals Eutelsat over frequency rights at 28/28.5 degrees East. SES can now start transmissions on October 4th and make use of 500 MHz of bandwidth currently used by Eutelsat’s Eurobird-1/28A satellite. However, the squabble is far from over. While SES can next month […]
Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has ‘sold’ seven sets of bidding documents for the upcoming auction process for digital terrestrial TV. There could be far more coming because the pre-bidding process doesn’t close until September 12th, and earlier indications were that up to about 38 bidders were potentially interested in capacity. NBTC vice […]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has revealed that PT Comunicações (PTC), the company responsible for the introduction of DTT in the country, has spent about €3.1 million on individual support for the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial. In total, almost 57,000 people benefited from the programmes, with subsidies for the purchase of 46,914 satellite […]