Cairo-based Nilesat is paying shareholders a (US$) 50 cent dividend on each share held. The payment was approved at the company’s AGM on April 27th. Nilesat recently reported net profits of $73.8 million for 2014, compared with $46.6 million for the previous year. The company is capitalised at $186.6 million, distributed across 37.3 million shares […]
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to bring Doctor Who to the Indian channel FX. All eight post 2005 series of the show will be screened from May 15th. The deal marks the largest volume sale of the BBC series in the country. FX is owned by Star India Private Limited and is available in […]
NAGRA, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced the launch of NAGRA anyCAST CONNECT, a hybrid CAS/DRM content protection solution for connected devices including set-top boxes and TVs. anyCAST CONNECT provides a single CAS/DRM client to securely and cost-effectively deliver any content, […]
France Télévisions has selected the technical platform of Arkena, an expert in the management of on-demand services, to optimise its catch-up TV offering in OTT on all connected devices, francetv pluzz. Having launched its catch-up TV service on several boxes, on the Internet and all connected screens, France Télévisions wished to optimise the management of […]
The West Midlands’ new television station, Big Centre TV, has received backing from a Canadian media company. Saskatchewan-based Trek 2000 has invested in Big Centre TV as the company looks to expand its interests into the UK’s burgeoning local TV market. The Trek 2000 Corporation was created by Canadian entrepreneurs Gordon and Maureen Haddock in […]
ABS and Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation (TTC) announced that they have signed a 5 year contract on ABS-6. The capacity agreement will provide high speed internet connectivity to support TTC’s growing infrastructure. Under the multi-year contract, TTC will use the C-band A beam capacity on ABS-6 to increase the volume of traffic to the Tuvalu islands […]
Research company GfK says that the value of the UK Consumer Electronics market fell back in March in almost every sector, except for large-screens and just about anything with 4K on its label. GfK tracks ‘hard’ sales achieved at the Point of Sale in retail stores across the country. The non-movers were Car Navigation (down […]
The number of fibre optic customers in Italy reached 777,000 at the end of December 2014, at the cost of ADSL which lost 200,000 customers in the same period. According to figures published by Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom), the number of fibre optic connections has been rising at a rate of 100,000 per month. The […]
According to the findings of report assessing the performance and reliability of the various home networking standards under real-world conditions, there is considerable variation between some of the published and validated speeds. The report, Performance and Reliability: Home Network Technology Standard Comparison, published by Rethink Research, and
We are in ‘results season’ as far as the world’s three largest satellite operators are concerned. As a consequence investment bank Jefferies’ has issued a major report on the state of the satellite industry. Intelsat is considered to be market leader, just ahead of SES with Eutelsat in third-largest position. The bank’s Giles Thorne says […]