Global consumer media usage & exposure, including all digital and traditional media combined, is on pace to grow an estimated 1.9 per cent to an average of 50 hours per week (HPW) in 2017, according to research from PQ Media. Consumer time spent with media worldwide is projected to increase another 2.5 per cent in 2018, […]
Last week a Russian rocket suffered a catastrophic loss of guidance which led to it crashing back to Earth and in the process losing a major meteorological satellite and a further 18 smallish-satellites, one of which was an important broadband-by-satellite test craft for Canadian operator Telesat. The problem, in essence, was that the Soyuz rocket […]
Mobile TV is the TV distribution platform that has seen the highest growth in Italy over the past two years, according to the 2017 Censis report on the state of communication and media. In fact, Mobile TV doubled the number of users, going from 11.2 per cent in 2015 to 22.1 per cent. DTT remains […]
Indian DTH broadcaster Reliance Communications has confirmed it is selling its ‘BIG TV’ pay-TV service to a consortium comprising Pantel Technologies and Veecon Media & TV. The deal was first reported earlier in November. The final deal, announced November 29th, sees the incoming buyers take on Big TV on an ‘as is’ basis complete with […]
A licensee in the Merseyside area of northwest England has been found guilty of two offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports football matches to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Sam Tate, designated premises supervisor of the Queens Hotel, Bootle, was found guilty in his absence of two […]
Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat has lost a trial satellite (LEO-2) for its proposed global Low Earth Orbiting broadband system. Space Systems/Loral delivered the first of a pair of ‘Phase 1’ test satellites to the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia near the Chinese border earlier in November, in readiness for a launch aboard a Soyuz-2 […]
During October 2017, the Arab Advisors Group examined 975 fully operational FTA satellite TV channels targeting the Arab World, to research their online presence. Of the analysed stations, 53.6 per cent (523 channels) had online presence. With the increasing adoption of Internet in the Arab World, many channels in the Arab TV industry have established […]
A so-called ‘condominium’ dual-mission satellite owned by EchoStar and SES has reached its 105 degree West operating position, and is ‘open’ for business, says the two organisations. EchoStar 105/SES-11 is a high-powered, hybrid Ku and C-band communications satellite for EchoStar and SES with a 24×36 Ku-band payload, marketed by EchoStar as EchoStar 105, and a 24×36 […]
AsiaSat 9, the most powerful member of the AsiaSat fleet, is fully operational at 122 degrees East following successful migration of all services from AsiaSat 4, delivering enhanced power, greater bandwidth and improved efficiency to customers for advanced DTH, TV distribution, VSAT broadband and mobil ity services across the Asia-Pacific. “Our brand new AsiaSat 9 […]
UK-based small satellite builder Surrey Satellite Technology has shipped Telesat’s broadband LEO-1 craft to India in readiness for launch later in December. The satellite, built for Canadian satellite operator Telesat, is the first in a new fleet of Low Earth Orbiting craft which will eventually number 290 in orbit. Telesat is obliged to launch half […]