Asia’s leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications. (AsiaSat) has entered into a contract with FOX International Channels (FIC), Asia’s largest pay-TV network, to provide one-stop broadcast service including compression, uplink, play-out service, monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting for all of the FIC’s top-rated HD and SD channels at AsiaSat’s earth station in Tai Po, Hong Kong. […]
HD Plus, a subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES Astra, has concluded an exclusive agreement with the Hamburg-based portal operator NetRange regarding the development and operation of an Internet-based, interactive portal solution. As a result, all new receivers that have the corresponding technical capability will be equipped with the HD InterActive feature from NetRange. […]
The BBC’s popular music radio station Radio 1 is again available for Sirius-XM listeners PROVIDED they are close to a computer or streaming service. The station will not be actually available on the Sirius-XM satellite or terrestrial repeater system other than for a few special events through the year. The BBC station rejoins the Sirius-XM […]
The recent slew of bad financial news on TV has seen a major surge in television ratings, especially in the US. All three US financial networks (Bloomberg, Fox Business and CNBC) have gained significant numbers of viewers during the working day, always a sure sign that Wall Street’s financial types – and those at home […]
Ghana’s Ministry of Communications says it is likely to switch off it analogue transmissions in 2013, two years earlier than the ITU’s target date of 2015 for global migration to digital broadcasting. However, not all of the nation’s broadcasters are keen. One, quoted by the BBC, is Ken Ashigbey who runs Multi-TV which supplies 10 […]
As widely expected, Scripps Networks is to acquire Virgin Media’s stake in UKTV, the joint-venture multi-platform channel operator with BBC Worldwide. Scripps Networks Interactive will pay approximately £239 million to purchase Virgin Media’s 50 per cent common equity interest in the UKTV partnership and also will pay about £100 million to acquire the outstanding preferred […]
Samir Abdulhadi, the former head of Orbit, has been appointed chairman of Panther Media Group, which operates the Dubai-based Orbit Showtime Network. He succeeds Faisal Al Ayyar, who was previously the chairman of Showtime/Gulf DTH. Abdulhadi’s appointment is effective from August 10th. Abdulhardi is the Saudi Arabian Mawarid Group’s senior representative on the Panther board. […]
BBC Monitoring is reporting that Iranian members of a group which manufactured and distributed satellite reception equipment were arrested and some 2,200 satellite receivers were seized in the city of Kerman by Iranian police. “The intelligence officers of Kerman Township’s Police Headquarters identified this group after carrying out some intelligence measures. They discovered more than […]
US DBS leader DirecTV is spending $100 million a week buying in its own shares. As at June 30 it had $3.4 billion of authorised cash available to buy back its shares, and according to ratings agency Fitch, it expects DirecTV’s capital allocation strategy will continue to focus on its share repurchase programme while managing […]
Satellite operations provider EchoStar is to start shutting down its satellite-based IPTV delivery service, ViP-TV, at the beginning of September, ending completely at the end of the month. The company will work with customers on a case-by-case basis to help them migrate to either a different service or to a competitor. EchoStar entered the MPEG-4 […]