Avanti Communications, the troubled speciality satellite operator, suffered a 15.4 per cent fall in its share price June 4th as investors anticipated a cash-raising exercise which would dilute their holdings. Some small shareholders suggest that Avanti, which needs to raise around $90 million in order to pay bills and fund operations, will create new shares […]
Viewers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in particular those watching TV from the local cable and IPTV supplier Du, cannot receive sports channels from beIN. Du, the digital cable operator owned by Emirates Integrated Telecoms, put a message on its website June 2nd saying; “We regret to inform that our customers are temporarily unable to […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that its SES-12 craft was successfully launched onboard a ‘flight-proven’ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, at 00:45 local time. SES-12, which is uniquely designed with state-of-the-art wide beams and high throughput beams, will join SES-8 at 95 degrees East to meet the diverse needs of […]
Elon Musk sent his Tesla Roadster car into space in a demonstration test flight of his Falcon ‘Heavy’ rocket in February, completed with a space-suited mannequin and the radio playing David Bowie’s Space Oddity track on its radio. It now appears that that the US Air Force will be next in line for a flight […]
Satellite operator SES screened the Bare Knuckles Fighting Championship pay-per-view in 4K to US viewers, on June 2nd. The event was produced by Multivision Media at the Cheyenne Ice Events Centre in Wyoming, and was available to cable and IPTV operators signed up for its 4K transmissions. SES is already carrying UHD broadcasts from Fashion […]
Hong Kong-based satellite operator APT has had to switch off “several” transponders on its Apstar-6 satellite. The craft appears to have suffered a problem on one of its solar arrays which convert the sun’s light into electricity. The satellite was built by Alcatel Space (now Thales Alenia) some 14 years ago and launched on April […]
MX1, a global solution provider of media services, has been selected as the distribution service provider for YOL TV, a Turkish-language channel based in Germany. MX1 is delivering the channel via an SES satellite and is providing the satellite uplink. YOL TV broadcasts from its studio in Cologne and transfers the transmission signal via an […]
Intelsat enjoyed another impressive day on the NASDAQ stock market on May 31st. Intelsat saw its share price jump a phenomenal 17.2 percent by midday, which means it has improved some 33 per cent since May 1st, and one cynic commentator praised the satellite operators hiring of Juan Pablo Cofino as its new VP for […]
The planned launch of the SES-12 satellite, initially scheduled for June 1st, has been delayed until June 4th (at the earliest) says SpaceX. The reason given is that SpaceX wants extra tests to take place on the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage booster. The rocket’s nine first stage engines were fired up in a ground […]
India’s giant DTH broadcaster Dish TV, now with the merged Videocon d2h under its belt, says that during the upcoming year it will expand its 450 company-owned service centres throughout the country and 5500 company technicians, and use the staff to make around 1 million home visits every month. The combined businesses now have a […]