Intelsat full-year 2017 revenues to December 31st showed $2.14 billion (€1.73bn). Its 4th Quarter revenues were $538 million. Overall loss for the full year was $179 million (and $90 million for Q4). The satellite operator said that its contracted backlog was down $100 million to $7.8 billion. “Our Q4 financial results, $538 million in revenue […]
Australia’s competition regulator the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking the views of consumers, media organisations, digital platforms, advertising agencies and advertisers after outlining the key issues it will be considering in its digital platforms inquiry. As part of its public inquiry into the impact of digital platforms on media and advertising markets […]
Two brothers from Ciudad Real, in the Castilla La Mancha Region, have been arrested for pirating pay-TV signals and illegally distributed them to 3,000 subscribers. The network decrypted the pay-TV signals and then distributed them at lower prices than the official ones, earning them some half a million Euros a year. The probe started after […]
The BBC’s coverage of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games was streamed 22.2 million times across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, smashing the previous record of 6.2 million streams for the Sochi 2014 Games. BBC TV coverage attracted an overall audience of 33.2 million with a peak of 4.1 million on February 17th for Yarnold […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the country is building what will be Africa’s biggest “and most lucrative” free-to-air TV platform. “With over 24 million TV households, and being the capital of African creativity in Music and Film, I am now more than convinced that we will also become the capital […]
Digital media software and services specialist RealNetworks has entered the next phase of its strategic partnership with China International Broadcasting Network (CIBN) OTT TV. CIBN OTT TV will launch a commercial trial of RealNetworks’ next-generation codec, RealMedia HD, on its over-the-top (OTT) HD VIDEO app and Stars China mobile app, China TV. CIBN OTT TV […]
Arqiva, one of the UK’s leading communications infrastructure and media services providers with significant investments in essential communications infrastructure, has published its results for the half year to December 31st 2017. Highlights include: Revenue on a like-for-like basis is up 5 per cent, demonstrating excellent progress in 700MHz spectrum clearance, DAB radio rollout and smart-metering […]
The January 25th launch by an Ariane rocket of two satellites, owned by SES of Luxembourg (SES-14) and Al Yah (YahSat-3) of Abu Dhabi, suffered a major trajectory deviation because wrong programming data was supplied to the rocket’s computers. Both satellites were subsequently contacted in orbit and given fresh guidance information. At the time of […]
Bahrain’s Information Minister, Mohammed Al-Romaihi cited Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera as one of the channels responsible for inciting against Arab countries and causing harm to everything related to them. But the Minister, while saying that Al-Jazeera had, in his view, lost a lot of its influence and no longer has an impact on Arab viewers […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has appointed a local consortium led by Greenlight Television, and supported by Isle of Man-based SES and Duke Marketing, as host broadcaster for the TT Races and Classic TT from 2018 onwards following a recent tender process. Greenlight Television is one of the world’s leading motorsport television producers […]