Satellite operator SES says live sports and news events in the last 12 months are driving uptake on its dedicated sports and events satellite distribution platform – ASTRA 1 Sports. Covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the ASTRA 1 Sports satellite distribution platform was leveraged for more than 1,500 events delivered to hundreds […]
Sports streaming platform DAZN has expanded its Italian footprint by signing a new distribution deal with DTH platform tivùsat. Starting from the 2023/2024 Italian Serie A football season, tivùsat users who are DAZN subscribers will be able to follow live and on-demand sports streaming coverage on a dedicated satellite channel, which can be activated online. […]
Ateme, a player in video compression, delivery, and streaming solutions, has announced that its video headed is feeding the latest satellite launched by Nilesat, the satellite service provider delivering digital television, radio, and data services across the Middle East and Africa. For the third time, Nilesat has chosen Ateme for its video headend; this time […]
Viasat’s brand new – but long delayed – satellite, ViaSat-3, only launched on May 1st, has suffered problems with its antenna. A statement from Viasat issued after the market closed on July 12th said that an unexpected event occurred during reflector deployment that may materially impact the performance of the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite. “Viasat and […]
An Open Broadcast Systems decoder, plus Croatian live sports production house MSTV and a Kymeta terminal, helped deliver live coverage of a UEFA football match from the Faroe Islands using OneWeb’s satellites to viewers “around the world”. The game was a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying game, which the Islanders lost against Albania on June 20th. […]
AsiaSat, the Asian satellite solutions provider, has announced that Nepal Television (NTV), Nepal’s state broadcaster has selected AsiaSat 7 to distribute a bouquet of five HD Nepali channels to serve audiences both nationally and across Asia and Oceania. These five television channels, which are free-to air, include general entertainment channels NTV and NTV Plus, and […]
TVRI, an Indonesian public broadcaster, in collaboration with PT Telkom Indonesia and its subsidiary Telkomsat, are putting a HD channel, TVRI World, delivered to TV homes via SES’s DTH satellites. The English-language TVRI World channel is now broadcasting across Europe via Astra 19.2 degrees East and the Middle East via YahSat 52.5 degrees East. As […]
The Board of trade body The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) has announced the election of Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg as its new Chair. Eva Berneke, CEO of Eutelsat was also elected co-Vice Chair, alongside Ali Al Hashemi, CEO of Yahsat, who was appointed earlier in 2023. Following the recent combination with Global VSAT Forum […]
SES has won a significant step in its long-running action against Intelsat over how the FCC’s compensation for C-band is apportioned. A Delaware Appeal Court has reversed the decision made by Intelsat’s bankruptcy court which ruled out the claim from SES. The Appeal Court has directed the claim now go back to Intelsat’s Bankruptcy Court. […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat is working with multiplay telco du to upgrade its direct-to-home satellite services across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With this partnership, du is increasing capacity at the 7/8° West orbital position, enabling its media customers to deliver high-definition content to viewers seamlessly, with an optimised user experience. The 7/8° […]