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.
Not so many years ago, Dr Abe Peled, the much-missed CEO – at the time – of content protection specialist NDS (now part of the giant Cisco Systems conglomerate) joked that until broadcasters started feeding programming direct into the brain, then his encryption system would be quite adequate! But Peled’s cautionary forecast is now a […]
The race to successfully return rockets to Earth following launch is well and truly taking place. Three billionaires are behind the activity. On the one hand there’s Elon Musk, flush with cash from his PayPal dividends and now helped by cashflow from his Tesla electric car business. On the other there’s Jeff Bezos, the billionaire […]
Yesterday’s news that Sky has signed a pan-European agreement with US premium programming giant Showtime (itself part of the CBS/Viacom empire) is more good news for the pay-TV broadcaster. The news helped balance what is proving to be a challenging pre-results period for Sky. Equity analysts are concerned over how well Germany and Italy are […]
The decision to axe the Al Jazeera America will cause significant losses at the channel, expensively launched on the back of the $500 million purchase of Current TV – a purchase that is still subject to an ongoing series of lawsuits between former vice-president Al Gore and his partners, and Al Jazeera itself. Al Jazeera […]
Consumers can already access broadband and media via smartphones whether they’re sat in a car, on a train and increasingly in the air. However, a new link between Toyota and Kymeta Corp has come up with a satellite antenna that’s capable of handling very high-speed data to cars at domestic-type broadband rates. The technology was […]
Last week equity analysts Exane BNP-Paribas rated Eutelsat as one of their ‘top picks’ in terms of media shares, and their recommendation to “avoid Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES. However, another bank report places a very different perspective on SES and its prospects. Analysts at investment bank Jefferies dig very deep into SES and in particular […]
Last week Intelsat again suffered a bad time in terms of its share price. A Christmas holiday rally (from December 17th to December 24th its ordinary share price rose dramatically from $3.69 to $4.47) but that buoyancy was lost last week when it plummeted from $4.20 on January 4th to just $3.53 by close of […]
Equity analysts at Exane BNP-Paribas in their ‘start of the year’ 61-page overview of what can be expected this year for investors in media stocks. As far as the satellite sector is concerned they have Eutelsat as a “top pick”, although recommend investors “avoid” SES (and Vivendi and Publicis). The bank’s advice is to stay […]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens this week in Las Vegas, and the received wisdom is that the show will be dominated by larger Ultra-HD TV screen sizes from the major display manufacturers, but different to CES 2015 in that they will all be capable of handling 10-bit depth pixels and thus – at last […]
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