Conax, a Kudelski Group company and specialists in total service protection for pay-TV and digital entertainment services, has announced a collaboration with Nordic DTH operator Canal Digital to secure their new Android TV-based entertainment service, OnePlace. OnePlace is now available to Canal Digital’s DTH customers across their Nordic footprint. The OnePlace set-top box will deliver […]
US pay-TV revenues peaked in 2015, at $101.71 billion (€82.51bn), according to the eighth edition of the North America Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research. A $26.58 billion decline (26 per cent) is forecast between 2015 and 2023 to take the total down to $75.13 billion. Cable TV revenues peaked in 2010 at […]
An Arianespace rocket launched two satellites into incorrect orbits back on January 25th. In the aftermath, potential insurance claims were reported for what Arianespace described at the time as a “trajectory deviation anomaly”. While there has been no formal word on either the SES-14 satellite or YahSat-3 craft it is now being reported that Abu […]
Rupert Pearce, CEO of London-based Inmarsat, told investors on March 9th that the satellite operator would cut its dividend from 54 cents (in 2016) to 33.6 cents for the past year, to permit the company to place resources behind its growing In-Flight communications and entertainment business. Inmarsat warned that next year’s dividend (that is for […]
Arianespace used a Soyuz rocket to launch four satellites into orbit for the SES Network’s O3b division. SES already has 12 similar satellites in orbit, and will later this year launch a further four into space. The O3b fleet serves small Pacific islands, far-flung nations and even giant cruise ships with their broadband and internet […]
US telco AT&T has confirmed that it has filed of a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering (IPO) of a minority interest in the Class A common stock of Vrio Corp., a holding company for its Latin American digital entertainment services unit, DirecTV Latin America. AT&T […]
Following intervention by French broadcasting watchdog the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and the country’s Culture Minister, Canal+ reinstated during the course of the evening of Wednesday March 8th, its retransmission of free-to-air service TF1 which had been interrupted since the evening of Thursday March 1st following a carriage dispute between the pair. The reinstatement […]
Five days after Canal+ ended the retransmission of TF1’s free DTT channels on its platform, the viewership of the commercial broadcaster has continuously decreased. On March 6th, the TF1 daytime audience fell by 1.7 points compared to the previous week, while the average audience dropped 186,000 viewers, BFM Business analyses. Daily soap Demain nous appartient […]
The correct industry name for an orbiting ‘Space Tug’ and its functionality is for In-Orbit Servicing (IoS) of existing satellites. They can also be called ‘Mission Extension Vehicles’, and quite a few technology companies are building suitable spacecraft capable of rescuing and servicing orbiting satellites. With a typical satellite costing around $300 million to build, […]
SES is developing a new breed of satellite for its fast-growing O3b division. Seven high-capacity mPOWER satellites are being built by Boeing and the first will be orbited in 2021. Each craft has the scalable ability to build to cover a land mass of some 400 million square kilometres with multiple terabits of capacity. At […]