The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is to consider a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking authorising television broadcasters to use the Next Generation television transmission standard (ATSC 3.0) on a voluntary, market-driven basis at the November Open Commission Meeting scheduled for November 16th, 2017. In a blog post discussing the published […]
Spanish TV group Atresmedia, owner of Antena 3 TV and La Sexta among other channels, and Huawei have partnered to develop Huawei Video, an OTT platform set to be launched in 2018. Atresmedia will be Huawei’s content provider for the platform with services initially in Spain and Italy, with plans to extend into other European […]
Italy’s RAI is planning to launch its first English-language TV channel in 2018. The initiative comes courtesy of the new Service Contract whose draft has been adopted by the Italian public broadcaster, following negotiations with the Ministry of Economic Development. According to daily La Repubblica, the new 24-hour channel will be distributed globally and will […]
The ‘big three’ satellite operators, Intelsat, SES and Eutelsat have all suffered massive falls in their share prices. Intelsat’s tumbled 19.36 per cent in late-afternoon trading on October 26th (by $1.15 to $4.79) and at one point the share price hit $4.44 (€3.82). Eutelsat’s fall from grace was even more dramatic, crashing 14 per cent […]
Satellite operator SES suffered a 5.4 per cent drop in video revenues during its Q3 period (to September 30th), partly because of the failure of AMC-9 but also because of unexpected non-renewals at its recently purchased MX1 division (the former RR Media) which cost it around €7 million. Total TV channels grew 6 per cent […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand rapidly, and the smart home will be one of the keys to further growth through the 2020s, according to research from Strategy Analytics. The report, Connected World: Smart Home Is Key To Tomorrow’s Internet Of Things, found that nearly 20 billion IoT and connected devices will be […]
Eutelsat has reported a 9.3 per cent fall in Q1 reported revenues to €349 million (although 6.7 per cent when ‘like for like’ numbers were measured) and including a 11.7 per cent tumble in in its ‘Fixed Data’ division compared to Q1/2016. However, these numbers were very much in line with market expectations, and only just […]
Sky Spain’s new OTT service is now integrated in all Samsung Smart TVs manufactured in 2014 and beyond. The company has launched an app to enable Samsung TV owners access to the service with 12 pay TV channels for €10 a month. The OTT platform includes the new Operación Triunfo (Star Academy) channel and over […]
A 75-minute analyst call from Intelsat CEO Steve Spengler on Octber 26th covered all the operator’s bases, but the questioners kept returning to the vexed topic of Intelsat (and Intel’s) hopes to see some of Intelsat’s C-band frequencies over the US reallocated for 5G usage. The news that this revolutionary concept even exists has helped […]
US pay-radio operator SiriusXM added 311,000 net new subs during its Q3 and taking the overall total for the year to date to more than 1 million. James Meyer, SiriusXM’s CEO, told analysts on the broadcaster’s conference call that it expected to achieve about 1.4 million net new subscribers this year. The broadcaster now has […]