Eutelsat used the opening day of Washington Satellite 2011 to confirm a three-year order for capacity on its giant Ka-Sat craft. The deal is with Germany’s Sat Internet Services which has contracted for three-years of capacity on the satellite for Eutelsat’s Tooway broadband-by-satellite product. Eutelsat says there is a significant market opportunity for satellite broadband […]
SES used the Washington Satellite 2011 show to announce that they would be using Space X’s innovative Falcon 9 rocket to launch an upcoming satellite. Space X is backed by billionaire Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, and the overall concept is to use – wherever possible – production line-type manufacturing techniques to lower the overall […]
LOVEFiLM has launched its WatchNow video service on Oregan Networks’ Onyx media browser, which will further increase LOVEFiLM’s platform capability to address a broader cross section of Internet-connected televisions and set-top boxes. The new partnership with Oregan Networkswill broaden LOVEFiLM’s current service distribution to a host of new connected devices including Cello iViewer televisions and […]
MBC-backed Arabic news channel Alarabiya continues to suffer deliberate signal jamming, while an Al Jazeera cameraman lost his life in Libya on Saturday. Earlier last week a BBC Arabic crew were beaten up by Libyan government supporters. MBC on Saturday night named Libyan intelligence units for continuing to deliberately jam its satellite signals on Nilesat. […]
Netflix, the US mail-order and online movie-rental service, doesn’t view Warner Bros’ plan to offer $3 film rentals on Facebook as a greater threat than other rivals pose, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos has said. “Nobody goes to Facebook to watch movies,” Sarandos said in an interview at a film finance conference in Los Angeles. […]
MBC bouquet of a dozen channels went off air on Tuesday evening, including its all-important Al Arabiya news channel. As at Thursday March 10th they were still off air as far as their normal frequencies are concerned, although they are now retransmitting over the region with new frequencies. It would seem the jamming is coming […]
At the end of 2010, pay-TV, either via cable or satellite, grew 15.2 per cent (333,000) over the year in Venezuela and reached a total of 2.52 million homes. Some 37 per cent of all Venezuelan homes now subscribe to pay-TV. The subscriber base grew from 2,192,519 in December 2009 to 2,526,050 in 2010. In […]
Two of the largest radio station operators in the US are to combine, with Cumulus Media agreeing to buy Citadel Broadcasting for $2.5 billion. The deal will bring together almost 600 radio stations in 120 markets across the country, giving Cumulus a presence in eight of the top 10 markets. Cumulus chief executive Lew Dickey […]
BSkyB and Channel 4 have confirmed they have submitted expressions of interest in the proposed national TV network that’s at the centre of UK Culture Secretary’s Jeremy Hunt’s plan to deliver local news. BSkyB said it is interested in assisting local television through broadband distribution, by viewers using the existing yellow button on the electronic […]
Global marketing service group Omnicom has struck what it claims are industry-first partnerships with AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, to gain direct access to the Internet companies’ consumer data. The deals, which follow a similar agreement with Google last year, will give Omnicom’s agencies the ability to target advertising to particular locations, ages and demographics across […]