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.
The US Congress Energy & Commerce Committee held a formal hearing into the C-Band Alliance’s plan for spectrum reallocation over the US on October 29th. The meeting did not go well for the Alliance. The Committee already has a Bill (the C-Band Act) before Congress and the Bill is co-sponsored by Democrats and Republicans, and […]
Last week news emerged that SES would be losing its DTH transmissions to Scandinavia’s Nordic Entertainment Group’s (NENT) Viasat. Viasat will merge its operations to Telenor’s THOR satellite and move away from SES 5 degrees East. Telenor and NENT will own 50 per cent each of the new business. SES Video’s CEO Ferdinand Kayser, speaking […]
It hasn’t been the best of weeks for Europe’s two main satellite operators. Eutelsat has suffered the loss of an important solar array on its latest satellite, Eutelsat 5 West B. The satellite is fully insured so there will be capital loss but the performance of the satellite is bound to be impaired. Eutelsat says […]
Eutelsat, in a formal filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says that it is in favour of the C-Band Alliance – eventually – freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum over the US for 5G’s usage. Julie Burguburu, Eutelsat’s group general counsel, and Wladimir Bocquet, director of regulatory affairs, spectrum management and policy at Eutelsat, […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) used a letter to Senator John Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and to Christopher Coons, a ranking member of the same committee. The letter was ostensibly to correct some misstatements made by two influential organisations. One “misrepresentation” came from David Williams of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance who in […]
Sami Kassab, a satellite analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP, issued useful summary of the October 17th US Senate hearing on matters concerning the Federal Communications Commission and in particular the FCC’s thinking on the C-Band Alliance’s (CBA) plan for C-band over the US. Evidently, Senator John Kennedy used robust language in pushing his view that […]
30,000 satellites is not a typo Elon Musk, rocket man, Tesla man, Hyperloop man, and a highly enthusiastic backer of getting mankind onto Mars, now says that his original plan for his ‘Starlink’ broadband by satellite’ scheme for 12,000 satellites isn’t quite enough. He is asking the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for permission to launch […]
The MIPCOM programming market opened with a packed schedule of UHD content, in both 4K and the even better 33 million-pixel version 8K. Programmers from around the world are showcasing their very best 4K (and 8K) content including the BBC, ZDF, France Televisions, Discovery, China Media, Caracol (Colombia), NHK, BlueAnt/Love Nature, Travelxp4K, Paramax, FTV and […]
The US STELA Act permits households to receive re-transmitted TV signals from far-distant broadcasters. It is due to be examined by a US government committee on October 23rd, and its future is not guaranteed. The Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 exempts local broadcasters from needing retransmission consent in order to supply network […]
Sea Launch was a scheme to use an adapted oil rig to launch rockets. The project had plenty of successes – 32 launches – but was badly affected by a few failures, and then bankruptcy in 2009. It emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 but has since been somewhat bogged down in various legal disputes with […]
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