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.
Netflix’s share price has been in the doldrums for the past two weeks or so (currently about $311 [€251] a share, compared to $331 a month ago) but still vastly ahead of its position a year ago ($140). The buoyancy and – in general – upward trajectory is almost entirely because of a matching optimism […]
The two largest economies in the world, the US and China, are trading insults and levying tariff barriers. The US is proposing a 25 per cent import levy on a wide number of China-built products. A major report from Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), and examined in detail in Large Display Monitor (LDM) says that […]
The surprising announcement that Eutelsat will launch its own consumer-focused ‘broadband’ high-speed satellite, and as a result not proceed with a planned joint-venture with ViaSat, dramatically changes the competitive landscape over Europe. The winner might well be consumers who will shortly gain access to two rival systems offering similar extremely high-speed capacity, and likely to […]
A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) pointedly asks where is the flow of business that was expected in terms of ‘connected vehicles’. Specifically addressing its study to the prospects for valuable flat-plate antennas, the devices needed to connect up vehicles to satellite-delivered services, it admits that business is “elusive, and still many years away […]
SES is due to report its Q1 numbers on April 27th and will have paid out its much-reduced Dividend payment on the April 26th. The reduced dividend, announced February 12th at the same time as the satellite operator replaced its CEO and CFO, didn’t help the company’s share price which, in the words of a […]
Saudi Arabian media billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, recently released from ‘arrest’ has said how much the agreement that permitted his release from detention at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh has cost him. The prince, via his Kingdom Holdings business, says that he is paying over around $30 million a month to his former […]
Egyptian state broadcaster ERTU is reeling under an enormous debt burden of some Eg£30.8 billion (about €1.4bn) according to a report in Al-Monitor. Much of this debt is allegedly owed to Egyptian satellite operator Nilesat, which is also backed by the government. Moreover the ERTU has a reported 35,000 staff for its 23 on-air channels […]
Last week saw media group Entertainment Studios/Allen Media buy Weather Group, owners of The Weather Channel for a reported $300 million (€241.9m). The Weather Channel launched in the US in May 1982. Part of the overall plan, according to Entertainment Studios founder Byron Allen, is to expand the footprint of The Weather Channel globally. “The […]
There has long been a debate in Brussels over access by non-Spanish satellite providers to the digital TV free to air Spanish market, along with complaints about the amount of allegedly preferential State aid that the Spanish national and regional administrations have given to local DTT operators. The background goes back to before 2010 when […]
An investment bank report on London-based satellite operator Inmarsat makes for troubling reading. Equity analysts at Berenberg Bank, commenting on Inmarsat’s recent disappointing results said that the operator’s formal guidance for the year ahead has given “investors little reason to put fresh money into Inmarsat, in our view”. The bank says that Inmarsat’s story now […]
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