UK commercial Public Service Broadcaster ITV has called for major pay-TV platforms to pay UK Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) fairly for the transmission of their channels, ending what is effectively a multi-million pound subsidy to Sky and Virgin. The demand for action follows the publication of a report that shows how retransmission payments to broadcasters […]

Arianespace told the Euroconsult Satellite Business Week in Paris it had won four new contracts to be launched on its Ariane 5 ECA rocket. Arianespace also has another two potential contracts in the pipeline. These four take the total contracts won this year to 11. The new contracts cover launch orders from: Intelsat (Intelsat 36) […]

BBC Worldwide is to use Globecast to handle and manage playout for up to 30 of its international channels globally. The agreement covers disaster recovery and redundancy for playout. The “long-term partnership” agreement sees Globecast being the primary technical partner for these services, handling channels that were previously supported by multiple service providers across multiple […]

Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) has won a tender for Qatar’s second satellite. Es’hail-2 is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2016. Es’Hail-2 will be co-located with Es’Hail-1 (itself a joint-venture satellite with Eutelsat) at 26 degrees East hot spot over the MENA region. Al Jazeera and beIN Sports are already using Es’hail […]

Raycom’s 53 local stations that it either owns or manages have been dark on DirecTV’s DTH service for the past 7 days, but with the all-important NFL kick-off start-time of 1pm Sunday looming, the two protagonists reached a – literally – 11th hour deal “in principle”. The important local stations went dark on September 1 […]

RRsat a leading provider of global digital media services to the broadcast industry, announced a company-wide rebrand to RR Media to reflect a significant expansion in its global service offering. This includes: an advanced, scalable media services platform turning ever richer content into ever richer experiences; enhanced media centres including hubs in the New York […]

In Amsterdam, Rohde & Schwarz DVS will present the latest addition to its renowned video board family. R&S PRIOS is a powerful board featuring the latest technology which will impress users. The main area of application is the playout of high resolution sequences with extremely high frame rates (HFR). The maximum resolution it can handle […]

Interactive TV and associated technologies specialist Strategy & Technology (S&T) and multi-platform live streaming and catch-up TV service provider Simplestream have reconstructed their two joint ventures – Synapse TV Ltd and VuTV Ltd – to be wholly owned by S&T, who will continue to run and develop the businesses, both of which are currently focused […]

Arkena announced that it has been chosen by TF1 VIDEO to provide the technical platform of its Video On Demand service MYTF1VOD. The media services subsidiary of the TDF Group will fully operate the premium transactional VOD service of the largest French broadcaster TF1. By putting different components of its products portfolio together, Arkena is […]

Home input devices and interaction mechanisms specialist ruwido has unveiled the ‘leaf’ remote control, which it says combines the essence of design and technology. The ‘leaf’ input device was created as a direct result of ruwido’s design and development approach: ‘thinsizing’. By launching ‘leaf’, ruwido is demonstrating its passion for the most precise technology and […]