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.
Last week saw Romain Bausch attend his final Board meeting as CEO at SES after some 19 years in the hot seat. He will remain on the company’s BoD but his departure prompted Berenberg Bank’s team to take a close look at what Sarah Simon described as a “new beginning” for the company. Simon admits […]
On March 31st Inside Satellite wrote encouragingly about Sky Deutschland despite also reporting the dramatic fall in the broadcaster’s share price. On April 1st its share price recovered almost 6 per cent to €6.54, but still well down on the €8.13 price at the end of last year. But more confidence came on April 2nd […]
Investors are anxious that Rupert Murdoch-backed Sky Deutschland may suffer a slowing of subscriber numbers. The past month or so has seen a significant fall in Sky Deutschland’s share price. Back on February 2nd its share price stood at €7.75. Today’s opening price was some €6.36. Last week investment bankers Morgan Stanley issued a note […]
BBC presenter and economics journalist Andrew Neil told delegates to the SES ‘Satellite Monitor’ event in London that Ultra HD “was the next big thing”. Neil was the founding chairman of Sky TV (in 1988) and was instrumental in the merger between Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990. An economist by training, he is […]
Satellite operator SES has been given a very strong “key pick” endorsement by investment bank Berenberg. Senior analyst Sarah Simon says she is raising the bank’s share price target on SES from today’s €25 to €29.60. SES has recently ordered a new satellite (SES-10) for the LatAm market, and while new data/broadband constellation O3b “might […]
France’s space minister, Genevieve Fioraso, has thrown considerable confusion over French plans for an updated version of the Ariane rocket launcher. The new version, Ariane 6, is going to cost €3 billion ($4bn) to develop, with 50 per cent of the cost funded by France (Germany 25 per cent, Italy 15 per cent, Switzerland & […]
Astra 5B has arrived at the Kourou spaceport ready for launch on an Ariane 5 rocket. Together with its fellow passenger (Hispasat’s Amazonas 4A craft) the two satellites are scheduled to be launched on March 21st in a launch window which opens at 7.05pm local time in French Guiana. The Astra 5B launch should have […]
Arianespace is not having the best of times. Despite an unblemished record of more than 50 totally successful satellite launches aboard its massive Ariane 5 rocket, it is under extreme pressure to look extremely hard at its manufacturing processes and reduce launch prices to the commercial sector. Arianespace’s CEO, Stephane Israel, speaking at Satellite 2014 […]
The annual ‘Big Four’ gathering at the giant Satellite show in Washington (SES’s Romain Bausch, Intelsat’s Dave McGlade, Eutelsat’s Michel de Rosen and Telesat’s Dan Goldberg), delivered some powerful home truths to the industry, with each of them combining to praise the innovation that’s come from Elon Musk and his SpaceX lower-cost rocket venture, and […]
BBC Monitoring has published a report, sourced from the Saudi Gazette, stating that Al Jazeera’s editorial office and facility in Saudi Arabia is to be closed. The report says: “A local source at the channel said the decision to close down the Qatari satellite channel provider would be implemented within the next few days. The […]
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