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.
On December 14th, we reported on a fascinating test, the ‘SATis5’ project, being run by satellite company SES, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Fraunhofer IIS, Newtec, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Bundeswehr München and the European Space Agency (ESA). The SATis5 project is designed to demonstrate how satellites can be used in the growth and management of 5G […]
It has been reported that Permira-backed Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) is involved in a major argument with South Korea’s government over KoreaSat-3/ABS-7. ABS announced it had “bought” KoreaSat-3 on May 24th 2010 from Korea Telecom (KT). Specialty trade news-site Space Intel Report says that ABS was fearful in 2013 that its plans to buy KoreaSat-3 […]
There was a time when rear-projection TVs, driven by Texas Instrument’s (TI) marvelous ‘magic mirror’ micromirror systems, were a highly-desirable way of achieving large-screen success. Now that flat-panel displays dominate the showrooms, TI has been looking at additional uses for its Digital Light Processing (DLP) chipsets. Of course, DLP chipsets are widely available in home […]
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation has honoured three outstanding winners of the 2017 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards, continuing a long-running Foundation tradition and celebrating the birth of Clarke in England on December 16th 1917. The Clarke Award for Lifetime Achievement goes to Stephen Hawking for “expanding our understanding of cosmology, time and the universe.” Kim […]
Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer, presenting at a UBS Media & Communications conference, told analysts that The Crown, despite all the column inches about its cost (and the BBC saying that the series about the British Royal Family cost more than its entire budget for its BBC2 channel), was hugely valuable for Netflix as […]
Investment bank Exane/BNPP, in a major report, tells investors that Europe’s ‘Media’ sector was one of the “worst performing sectors” last year, underperforming the market by 11 per cent, and following on a 7 per cent underperformance in 2016. Some of the downward re-ratings were “brutal” says equity analysts at the bank, and that ‘Brexit’ […]
The launch date of SpaceX’s latest ‘Falcon Heavy’ rocket has been delayed. Frequently promised for 2017, that expectation has now formally been delayed into the New Year. However, SpaceX (and Tesla electric car) founder Elon Musk says he wants to use the debut flight to launch his own “midnight cherry red” Tesla Roadster into space. […]
Satellite operator EchoStar, controlled by Charlie Ergen, is sitting on a cash pile of a huge $2.8 billion (€2.36bn), plus another $500 million of marketable securities, and is currently not doing anything with this ‘war chest’. Equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies have carried out a study to examine whether a hypothetical bid for Inmarsat […]
Most European commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster have had a tough time recently, not helped by the loss of essential advertising to rival Internet sites. However, a major report from investment bank Exane/BNPP suggests that Germany’s RTL Group could be the exception, and is “less at risk” because of its strong exposure to local programming. Another […]
South Africa’s pay-TV broadcaster Multichoice, owned by giant conglomerate Naspers, is facing allegations of being linked to local corruption claims between a TV channel, the immensely powerful Gupta family and the country’s former Minister of Communications, Mrs Faith Muthambi. The channel is ANN7, described by most local observers as a highly partisan News broadcaster and […]
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