Some of India’s over-supplied DTH players have been talking merger and acquisition for well over a year. One major player, Bharti Airtel, which operates the Airtel Digital TV DTH platform and Airtel TV OTT service, says that it continues to consider its evaluate its options as far as the DTH service is concerned. The comments […]
SES says it is leading a European consortium of industrial partners in an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create Pacis-1, a new satellite communication platform for governments that is aimed at making secure satellite communications accessible and available to governments and institutions. Pacis-1 is part of the ESA’s Govsatcom Precursor programme and […]
Eutelsat Communications’ all-electric Eutelsat 172B satellite that went into full commercial service on November 21st is now offering greatly enhanced flexibility, power and connectivity for users in a vast region stretching from the West coast of the Americas to Asia, Oceania and across the Pacific. The transfer of services to Eutelsat 172B from Eutelsat 172A […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced that British vintage film channel, Talking Pictures TV, is moving to one of its main standard definition (SD) multiplexes – expanding the channel’s reach to around 19 million homes across the UK. To date, Talking Pictures TV – which launched on Arqiva’s T2 HD […]
Motorsport.tv will showcase the entire video history of the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, with more than 70 films to be published on the VoD site and broadcast on TV from January 1st 2018. The archive will include highlights of every race from 1954 onwards and Motorsport Network will become the exclusive home for […]
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has confirmed that CEO Thomas Ebeling will leave his position in February. The news comes just following last week’s profit warning, and after Ebeling apologised for disparaging comments about the network’s viewers. Ebeling has since apologised for calling the network’s core audience “fat” and “poor” during a conference call with financial analysts […]
OTT TV platforms are becoming increasingly popular in Spain with four in every ten Spaniards watching streamed content via a TV set at least once a week, according to the CNMC (The National Commission on Markets and Competition). Netflix has more than doubled its subscriber count in the last 6 months to 1,163,000, up from […]
A total of 427 TV channels were available in Italy via the DTT and DTH (Sky Italia and TivùSat) platforms at the end of the third quarter of 2017. This compares to 431 in Q1, according to data by Italian broadcaster’s association Confindustria Radio Televisioni (CRTV). The data includes time-shifted versions, HD, 3D, PPV and […]
At the 87th meeting of the DVB Steering Board (SB) important revisions and updates for three DVB specifications were approved. This development marks the completion of the current generation of specifications for Ultra High Definition Television – DVB UHD-1. DVB UHD-1 covers elements for the improvement of video and audio quality for broadcast TV services. […]
Satellite broadcasting is helping drive digital adoption in Africa, according to a report from satellite operator Eutelsat. The report, Digital Transition in Africa, says that despite the ITU-mandated switch off of analogue broadcasting for June 2015 only six African nations have actually made the transition to digital broadcasting. “This slow progress is largely due to […]