As part of Euroconsult’s important Satellite Business Week, investment bank Jefferies hosted their own one-day ‘Satellite Summit’ where 7 satellite operators or capacity re-sellers supplied one-hour Q&A sessions for market analysts. Giles Thorne of Jefferies summarised the day by saying that despite there being “healthy scepticism towards the sector” today’s debate on the impact of […]
StarTimes Group, already with a significant presence in digital TV in Africa, says it is committed to expanding services including free access transmissions. StarTimes Media Kenya’s Director of Brand Marketing & Public Relations Japheth Akhulia told Chinese newspaper Xinhua that the digital expansion project will connect 10,000 African villages with free digital television services. He […]
The Spanish pay-TV market has become the new “El Dorado” for the largest pay-TV companies in the world. From a small market in 2013 with 3.7 million subscribers, the market had over 6 million at the end of 2016. Netflix, HBO and now Sky have broken into the market to compete with Telefónica, Vodafone and […]
SES has awarded two launch contracts covering 5 satellites to Arianespace, proving that the satellite operator is keen to maintain flexibility in its launch choices. The first contract looks after the launch of SES-17 which will be launched in 2021 and will be the 53rd SES craft entrusted to Arianespace. SES-17 is a powerful satellite […]
Ottawa-based Telesat used Euroconsult’s Satellite Business Week to confirm that it now has plans to launch about 290 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. CEO Dan Goldberg told delegates that under new FCC regulations Telesat was obliged to launch half of the new fleet, that was about 140 craft, within 6 years. The balance, once the […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure and media services company, has extended its lease for C and Ku-band capacity with AsiaSat, Asia’s leading satellite operator for sports content delivery across the Asia-Pacific. The agreement will see Arqiva’s continued use of AsiaSat 5 to deliver a broad range of sporting events to Asian viewers, from football and […]
Conax, a Kudelski Group company and specialist protection for pay-TV and digital entertainment services, and conditional access module provider SmarDTV, have announced a collaboration with JOYNE, the new Dutch multi-channel pay-TV operator. JOYNE selected Conax ‘Contego-as-a-Service’, cloud-based content protection security hub and Conax Cardless CAM developed by SmarDTV with pre-integrated security client Conax Core Access […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has soft launched its new Globecast liveSpotter live-to-VoD packaged content service. This comes after select customers successfully deployed the trial solution. Globecast liveSpotter provides customers with the ability to create monetisable short-form content from quickly and efficiently, using an end-to-end solution – from signal-to-screen – from a single […]
Viasat Ukraine, the largest DTH operator in Ukraine, will be providing TV reception to its subscribers using SES Video’s services on Astra 4A. Under the multi-year agreement with SES, Vision TV will be broadcasting approximately 40 pay-TV channels, out of which 13 are in HD, and about 60 free-to-air channels at 5 degrees East. SES […]
Karen Bradley, the UK’s Culture Secretary has said she is minded to refer the bid by 21st Century Fox for the remainder of the shares in Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on the grounds of media plurality and commitments to broadcasting standards. In a statement to Parliament, Bradley updated MPs on the […]