Telenor has issued its second quarter results July 21, stating that its Broadcast Division saw revenues grow from NOK1.734 billion (€0.22bn) in the same period last year to 1.791 billion. Operating profits grew by NOK42 million to NOK268 million. Telenor’s Broadcast Division includes the Canal Digital DTH operation, Conax encryption, Norkring transmission arm, C More […]
DTH subscriptions will continue to grow, achieving 71 percent of the pay-TV market by 2016, says a report from Dataxis. By the end of this year DTH will edge past cable subscriptions (51 per cent versus cable’s 49 per cent), following a growing trend towards DTH subscription. At present, in Mexico, DTH is operated by […]
Brazil’s National Telecoms Agency is looking to license four new orbital slots for extra satellites. The idea is to have the slots secured and occupied with new satellites by 2014 – when the country will again go soccer crazy as it hosts the FIFA World Cup tournament. Sky Brazil has already said it is interested. […]
Morega Systems, a developer of content portability solutions, has received patent approval for its breakthrough content portability technology. This unique content delivery solution gives satellite, cable and IPTV service providers, and equipment manufacturers an alternative way to extend premium, multimedia content beyond the television and the set-top box to support the Connected Home and TV […]
South Africa’s new DTH broadcaster TopTV, established barely a year ago, has beaten off tough competition from well-established MultiChoice and others to win SatCom’s Star Award as ‘Best Satellite Broadcast Provider for Africa’. The awards have run for 3 years and are designed to recognise exceptional performers within the industry. TopTV‘s citation highlights the company’s […]
Bloomberg is reporting that Eutelsat and AsiaSat are each talking with Malaysia’s Measat about taking possible stakes in Kuala Lumpur-based Measat. Sources told Bloomberg that some sort of partnership might result with access to Measat’s small fleet of four craft being a major goal. Measat’s aims are said to include help in developing and launching […]
The BBC is conducting a major survey into the state of mobile phone coverage in the UK. Over the course of the next month, the project will attempt to chart the availability of 3G and 2G services up and down the country. Mobile operators offer their own coverage maps but no independent survey has yet […]
J&T Group, a Czech-Slovak private equity company, is planning to sell the satellite TV channel Skylink, Czech newspaper E15 has reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter. Several telecommunication companies including T-Mobile Czech already filed bids to purchase the channel, which could be valued at more than 1 billion koruna ($58 million), the […]
24-hour Arabic (and English-language) news channel Al Jazeera is being legally restructured. A statement from its Doha headquarters says the operation is to have a comprehensive review, and its legal status will change. The news comes ahead of promised expansion into Turkish, Swahili and Balkan versions. The name change is subtle, as is the broadcasting […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released statistical and financial information on Canadian broadcasting distribution companies. For the year ending on August 31st 2010, this sector of the broadcasting industry experienced strong growth as the combined revenues for cable, satellite and multipoint distribution companies rose from $11.4 billion to $12.5 billion. Total revenues […]