Venezuela’s government is broadcasting 27 national and international TV channels (and 10 radio services) on a free-to-view DTH service. Conatel, the nation’s National telecommunications Commission, announced the project and described it as “the new way of watching television”. However, although content viewing will be completely free, users must buy a Set Top Box converter ($29) […]

As fibre adoption accelerates globally and consumers increasingly turn to alternative forms of entertainment online, multichannel operators, particularly telcos, are beginning to reconsider their video strategies, according to analysts at Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. In a blog post, they note that multichannel households have continued to grow globally in […]

SES has ordered two replacement satellites for its prime orbital slot at 19.2 degrees East and will serve 118 million homes across Europe and beyond. Luxembourg-based SES says the two geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellites will be for its prime orbital slot at 19.2 degrees East to maintain the premium services it provides to its European […]

Eutelsat Communications’ Konnect Russia and Gazprom MKS, a company specialising in gas conservation using mobile compressor stations, have published the results of a major cooperation project aimed at reducing the CO2 emissions of Gazprom’s gas transmission subsidiaries. The two-year programme focused on reducing the volume of vented gas during repairs on gas pipelines at 13 […]

There was a major fire on November 15th near one of the Nilesat buildings near Cairo’s Media Production City. Six fire trucks and their crews fought the fire. Experts said that a heavy-duty transformer had caught fire although power to the satellite section of Nilesat was reportedly not affected. An inspection proved that the fire […]

Cairo-based Nilesat, which serves the MENA region, has again seen profit fall 22 per cent for the 9 months to September 30th. The operator’s net profit for the 9 month period was $20.3 million(€17.7m) – down from $26.07 million in the same period last year. NileSat is now again trading successfully with Eutelsat with whom […]

Home shopping channels from HSE have renewed and extended their broadcast contracts with SES. A new multi-year contract that secures additional capacity for the organisation to broadcast its three TV channels including HSE SD, HSE HD and HSE Trend on SES’s satellites in its prime TV neighbourhood at Astra 19.2 degrees East. Reaching up to […]

Luxembourg-based M7 Group, owned by Canal+, has concluded a multi-year agreement with Slovakia-based lifestyle channel TV OSEM for the free-to-air satellite distribution in HD via the M7 platform on Astra 23.5 East. Since 2010, TV OSEM provides Slovak and Czech viewers with programming focusing on health, lifestyle, music, folklore and esoteric topics. In order to […]

SES has announced it will launch HD+ IP, a new streaming service in Germany that will provide subscribers with access to 50 HD channels and a library of VoD content without the need for a satellite, cable or DVB-T2 TV connection. Launching in December, the new HD+ IP streaming service will expand SES’s addressable market […]

SES reported during its 9-months (Q3) results that HD channel growth on its fleet had taken the number of HD channels broadcasting on the fleet to “an industry leading” 3,150 channels which “reflected early signs of broadcasters considering completing their transition from SD to HD”. The move to HD and with video pricing remaining healthy […]