Satellite TV provider Kiwisat is launching a new DTH offering in the Caribbean to deliver top-quality but accessible TV entertainment to consumers on the islands using SES’s satellite SES-10. Under a long-term lease agreement, Kiwisat is taking capacity on SES-10 to deliver about 130 channels, including 90 HD channels. The DTH platform is mainly aiming […]
London-based speciality satellite operator Avanti Communications should see their much-delayed Hylas 4 craft launched by Arianespace from their spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana on April 5th. Hylas 4 will be a co-passenger with Japan’s Superbird-8 satellite, which has been the cause of the delay. The Japanese satellite was damaged back in June 2016 while […]
The Croatian national broadcasting Group Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) has signed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat for capacity on HOTBIRD, the flagship video neighbourhood for Europe and the Middle East, in order to broadcast its latest entertainment and news channel HRT-HTV 5 to an international viewer base. The free-to-air channel HRT-HTV 5 offers 24-hour news, educational […]
SES has released the latest data from its Satellite Monitor team, and says that its broadcast signals are now reaching 351 million TV homes, well up on the 2016 total of 325 million homes. SES extrapolates the ‘homes reached’ data to number of viewers and claims more than 1 billion individual viewers. SES added it […]
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 […]
At the end of December 2017 there were a total of 423 TV channels in Italy that could be received on the main distribution platforms. The channels belong to 116 media groups (Italian and international), of which 68 are based in Italy, according to a report published by Confindustria Radio Televisioni (CRTV), the association of […]
YANGA!, the new general entertainment channel for the UK’s African diaspora, is now available on Freesat channel 171. The channel’s broad schedule combines the best entertainment television produced from across the continent, plus a bold new series of original programmes produced locally by the diaspora. “YANGA! means self-pride and showing-off in West African pidgin,” says […]
India’s broadcasting giant Star India has agreed a peace deal with DTH operator Airtel Digital TV and the two have signed a fresh agreement which gives Airtel subscribers access to Star’s output, including its all-important sports coverage. “Airtel Digital subscribers will continue to get uninterrupted access to all of Star’s programmes including Vivo IPL, following […]
India’s powerful GSAT-6A satellite has been lost shortly after its launch on March 29th. The satellite seemed to launch well and achieved its first orbit-raising manoeuvre. The LAM (liquid apogee motor) engine worked perfectly fine, and the first orbit raising manoeuvre was a success, and the satellite reached the right spot as intended, a source […]
The Italian TV market continues to be dynamic, with new national channels continuously being added to the already bountiful offer. Mediaset has confirmed April 3rd as the launch date for its new free-to-air general entertainment channel, called 20 Mediaset, which will be available both via digital terrestrial and on satellite platform TivùSat (only in HD), […]