Chris Forrester is one of the most experienced and highly regarded journalists in the field. His insight and analysis, particularly in the satellite and pay-TV arena, is highly prized. He has written for all the major business journals in the sector as well as several national newspapers.
Elon Musk is sitting on another gold mine if a valuation from Morgan Stanley is anywhere near accurate. The bank – in a best-case valuation – says that Musk’s SpaceX rocket business and its Starlink satellite subsidiary is worth $100 billion. This is undoubtedly good news for Musk, not only in the core valuation but […]
Salah Hamza, the former Chief Engineer and CTO at Egypt’s Nilesat Satellite Company has died. He had been ill for some time having suffered a major stroke some 3 months ago. He retired from Nilesat in 2014. Hamza, during his time at Nilesat, was ‘Mr Satellite’ for the hundreds of Middle East channels that flocked […]
Netflix’s Q3 subscriber growth – or lack of – made headlines around the world and sent its share price down 6 per cent on October 20th in after-hours trading. Netflix said that Covid had brought forward better subscriber growth earlier in the year and this meant that its Q3 growth (2.2 million compared to guidance […]
Building on the success of its 14th launch on October 18th, SpaceX is readying its 15th batch of Starlink craft for a possible launch on October 21st. Currently a launch of the next batch of 60 satellites is scheduled for 12.36pm Florida time dependent on the usual weather and any last-minute technical delays. Subject to […]
Carlos Placido, a Northern Sky Research (NSR) Senior Analyst, says that the new Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite mega-constellations, while not providing data-rates as high as fibre when connecting major cities but when adding in other delays the satellite-based systems will be able to offer lower latency than fibre across long distances, a situation that […]
As has been widely publicised, the Premier League (EPL) is to offer some games on a PPV basis for £14.95 per game. The news has provoked concerns from fans, but also the industry. A report from investment bank Exane/BNPP reminds clients of the rationale behind the decisions which mean that games not already picked to […]
Investment bank Berenberg says that with the closing of the acquisition of the Meet Group, ProSiebenSat.1 now has an online dating business that has the potential to deliver broad-based revenue and profits growth. “Management has been very clear that the intention is to conduct an IPO for this business (although a trade sale might also […]
Jeff Bezos is planning to launch an eventual 3236 low-Earth orbiting satellites into space in order to provide a broadband-by-satellite service to consumers. Project Kuiper will compete directly with the Starlink scheme from Elon Musk as well as a few other would-be satellite operators such as OneWeb, Telesat and others. As yet there is no […]
If there’s one vital component that Elon Musk and the likes of Jeff Bezos as well as Telesat, OneWeb and others need it’s a low-cost consumer friendly phased array flat-panel antenna. Yoel Gat, founder of Gilat Satellite Networks (and now CEO at SatixFy, a designer of flat-panel antennas) says that the dream of a sub-$300 […]
Radio ‘shock jock’ Howard Stern looks set to sign a new contract with pay-radio operator SiriusXM. Such is his fame – and popularity with subscribing fans – that he looks like winning a reward of more than $2 million per week. However, on his morning show on October 7th he said the two sides are […]
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