SES has confirmed that its new Astra 1N satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East. Astra 1N was built by Astrium on the Eurostar E3000 platform and is equipped with 52 transponders in the Ku frequency band. The satellite was successfully launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from […]
DirecTV is threatening to pull the plug on Fox cable networks next week unless a new carriage fee agreement is made. On the DirecTV site, CEO Mike White says that Fox parent News Corp. “has demanded that DirecTV customers pay nearly 40 per cent more for the same channels they already received. If a new […]
The ‘Democratic Voice of Burma’ (DVB) web-site says that licences for satellite television receivers are likely to be issued again in Burma following a six-year ban claimed at the time by observers to be an attempt to control the flow of information into the country. The notification came from communications minister Thein Htun after […]
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES says it is looking to acquire satellite operators in fast-growing emerging markets. SES is investing more than $4 billion in expanding its resources in growth markets in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. CEO Romain Bausch, in an interview with German daily Handelsblatt on Ocobert 20th, said he expected SES […]
Hybrid STBs are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity in broadcast networks, reports ABI. In 2010, only 40 per cent of STBs worldwide featured hybrid capabilities, with many not yet enabled by software as operators were not ready to deploy IP video services. Hybrid […]
An International Launch Services Proton-M rocket successfully launched a huge satellite into orbit for ViaSat on October 19th. The satellite has the largest-ever capacity throughput, at a staggering 140 Gb/s. The satellite is about the size of a double-deck bus (without its solar panels deployed) and weighs in at 6.7 tonnes. Space Systems/Loral built the […]
In the quarter to September 30th BSkyB has posted revenue up 9 per cent to £1.66 billion (€1.89bn) and operating profit up 16 per cent year on year to £295 million. But while it added 77,000 net new customers in total and sold 683,000 additional ‘products’ the net of new pay-TV subs was just 26,000 […]
Technology company NDS is now serving more than 20 million homes in India, representing more than 100 million viewers, with its encryption and middleware expertise. Dr Abe Peled, executive chairman of NDS, speaking exclusively to Advanced-Television.com from New Delhi where he was attending an event to celebrate the milestone, said the best part of the […]
SES has confirmed that Niclas Friese-Greene has been appointed Senior Vice President Marketing and Corporate Communications at SES. In the newly created position, he reports to Ferdinand Kayser, Chief Commercial Officer, and Romain Bausch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SES respectively. He will be responsible for the worldwide marketing activities including market communications as well […]
25TV, an Egyptian privately-owned satellite TV channel that was forced off air on October 9th, will resume transmissions October 20th. The channel went dark when rioters, including members of Egypt’s armed forces, broke into the channel’s central Cairo studio and destroyed much of the infrastructure. Mohamed Gohar, 25TV’s CEO, said the channel’s Christian-focussed editorial policy […]