3 Screen Solutions (3SS) and KAONMEDIA have announced that Nordic pay-TV giant Allente has launched its next-generation super-aggregated TV services for Scandinavia on an Android TV STB, supporting DTH satellite, IPTV and OTT. KAON BCM72180 PVR STBs (set-top box) will be available to Allente’s 1 million+ subscribers, enabled by KAON middleware, NAGRA Media CAS, Broadcom […]
Discovery Deutschland has extended its existing partnership with SES, securing long-term satellite capacity for the distribution of its movie channel TELE 5 HD on the SES’s prime TV neighbourhood at ASTRA 19.2 degrees East. The channel continues to be available free-to-air in standard definition and in high definition on HD+, SES’s German media platform. As […]
Eutelsat released its first half-year results on February 17th and reported that like-for-like revenues had fallen 4.2 per cent. The satellite operator also cautioned that its full-year numbers would be at the lower end of guidance. However, drilling down into the numbers, it reported that actual revenues of €628.5 million (for the half-year to December […]
Integrated satellite and terrestrial network operator Intelsat has signed a contract with satellite telecommunications provider Hungaro DigiTel to assist the company in its expansion of digital television distribution services for TV2 Hungary. Hungaro DigiTel will distribute 14 additional TV channels in Hungary and the neighbouring countries. They will leverage Intelsat’s 1West satellite neighbourhood over Hungary […]
Nilesat revenue and profit numbers were released to the Cairo stock exchange on February 10th. Nilesat (officially the Egyptian Satellite Co.) reported net profit of $30.754 million for the year to December 31st 2021. This was down from $34.159 million (€30.9m) for the previous year. The numbers confirm the steady downward trend in the satellite […]
SES and Eutelsat, Europe’s pair of important satellite operators, have come under the microscope from investment bank Exane/BNPP. SES comes out of the report well. Eutelsat, less so. The bank forecasts that by 2024 it estimates that SES could be 24 per cent ahead in terms of its EBITDA numbers and therefore with a 45 […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, and Arabsat, the satellite services provider in the Arab world, have announced that TiVi5MONDE has chosen the longstanding partnership to launch the FTA DTH channel in SD and HD across the MENA region. TiVi5MONDE, owned by French network TV5MONDE, is a 24/7 French language children’s network, featuring cartoons, […]
Malaysia’s Astro DTH service, Kristal Astro, is to end its Brunei transmissions on March 31st. The company blames the growing digital-based services in what is a modest population of fewer than 500,000. Kristal Astro stated: “Considering the fast changing technology trends causing huge shifts in consumer preferences towards digital media consumption, we have come to […]
Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings II, Inc. (together with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Univision Communications, have confirmed the completion of the $4.8 billion (€4.3bn) transaction between Televisa’s media content and production assets and Univision. The new company, TelevisaUnivision, creates the world’s leading Spanish-language media and content company. TelevisaUnivision will produce and deliver premium content for its […]
MultiChoice’s satellite service is facing new competition in Zimbabwe. Azam TV has launched some 100 DTH channels to Zimbabweans for the equivalent of $5 a month. The fee for 130 channels, which includes many premium channels, rises to $15 a month. Azam TV is backed by Bakhresa Resa Group which is owned by a Tanzanian […]