GlobeCast has signed a contract with broadcaster Trace to broadcast its new HD channel, Trace Sports, on the NSS-806 satellite. Thanks to this new coverage, Trace Sports HD will enter the region with strong growth in the pay-TV sector and have access to a potential audience of 18 million DTH and cable homes in North, […]
Eutelsat’s Q1 revenues were up 3.4 per cent to just shy of €300 million, and it is now saying that it is likely to see accelerated top-line growth in the second half of the year, and is confirming its guidance that this year’s outlook is positive, and that looking forward three years it is confirming […]
DirecTV posted a higher quarterly profit as it won US video subscribers away from rival cable with a giveaway of its exclusive National Football League games package. But the leading US DTH provider missed analysts profit forecasts due to expenses related to its rapid rate of customer additions and rising programing costs including the multibillion […]
The US House of Representatives is backing new regulations which, if passed, would make it easier for satellite operators to launch their satellites free of restrictions currently in place on certain components. The USA’s ITAR rules treat satellite components as ‘munitions’ (the International Traffic in Arms Regulations) and which mean that non-US satellites cannot use […]
Although OTT video services are providing another competitive challenge to established cable video and satellite or IPTV offerings, market research firm Infonetics Research doesn’t expect OTT to have a significant impact on pay-TV subscribers. The firm’s Pay TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyses the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services […]
BSkyB has succeeded in getting a Virgin Media direct mail campaign banned for potentially tricking consumers into thinking it was an official offer of a TV upgrade from its pay-TV rival – but lost a bid to stop Virgin being able to claim it offered a “better TV experience”. Sky lodged a complaint with the […]
British satellite provider Inmarsat said its LightSquared spectrum sharing agreement boosted revenue in the third quarter as its core shipping business was hit by a shift to lower-revenue broadband terminals. The company, which provides communications to ships, aircraft and the military, reported an 18.4 per cent rise in third-quarter earnings to $224.4 million in its […]
Satellite operators continue to buck the global economic malaise, according to international market research and consulting firm NSR’s Global Assessment of Satellite Supply & Demand, 8th Edition . Findings indicate that in 2010, global satellite operators saw a strong revenue increase of over $550 million, derived from the lease of commercial satellite capacity. NSR projects […]
Fox Networks and DirecTV have reached an agreement for DirecTV to continue carrying all Fox Networks (including FX, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Deportes), Fox’s regional sports networks, Fox Broadcasting (FOX), the FOX local stations, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In a […]
Eutelsat has won a ‘multiyear’ contract to supply capacity on Atlantic Bird 7 to MBC, the Middle East’s market-leading broadcaster. The deal covers a full transponder allowing MBC to transmit a number of HD channels to Arab viewers. Atlantic Bird 7 sits alongside Nilesat’s two major satellites and is thus ‘visible’ widely throughout the Middle […]