Kenyan telecoms firm Wananchi Group plans to launch a pay satellite television service in July to rival South Africa-based Naspers’ DSTV across east Africa after getting new capital injection, its head has confirmed. Liberty Global, one of the world’s largest cable companies, Oppenheimer Funds, and Sarona Asset Management, a Canadian-based emerging markets fund manager, are […]
SES Astra will increase the download speed for Asra2Connect to beyond 10 Mbit/s by providing additional capacity from its 28.2 degrees East orbital position. Astra2Connect is expected to serve more than 80,000 end-users in Europe by the end of May from its 23.5 degrees East orbital position and is Europe’s largest satellite-based broadband network. With […]
Pay-TV revenues in Western Europe will not grow between 2011 and 2016 ($36 billion) according to a new report from Digital TV Research Ltd. Report author Simon Murray described the findings as “extraordinary at first glance considering that nine million pay-TV households with be added over the same period,” reaching 107 million by 2016 and […]
India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan intends to add dramatically to the number of DTH channels it carries. In addition to the 21 national and region TV stations it offers on DTH, the broadcaster says it will add another 200 to its own dedicated bouquet, and create a major challenge to the existing DTH platforms. Some 32 […]
It was a busy weekend for the satellite launch industry. Telesat 14R, a new addition to the Canadian platform’s fleet, was successfully launched by International Launch Services on May 21st. The satellite has a twin mission: First to add additional capacity to the Telesat fleet, and to serve from 63 degrees West, with a long-term […]
Arab Digital Distribution (ADD), the largest pay-TV platform management company in the Middle East and North Africa, has launched two new regional packages – Pehla Spice and Pehla Spice Plus. Targeted at the large South Indian diaspora across the region, the two new packages will be distributed exclusively through Pehla – Premium Asian Entertainment. Majed […]
SES Astra has signed a capacity agreement with Penthouse Digital Media Productions for a second Penthouse 3D channel on ASTRA 23.5 degrees East for the encrypted distribution to TV platform providers across Europe. Penthouse 3D is the first worldwide 3D adult channel, broadcasting 100 per cent native 3D content. A first 3D channel from Penthouse […]
Joe Clayton, the incoming chief executive of Dish Network, has revealed that more acquisitions are on the horizon as the satellite TV provider pieces together a “new video model” to compete with other pay-TV operators and new players such as Netflix. Clayton told The Associated Press that recent acquisitions provided the framework for a model […]
By 2015, satellite TV will overtake cable TV in terms of TV households, with IPTV expected to grow 10 per cent a year, suggests research consultancy Infocom. Western Europe posted over 182 million TV households at end-2010, 40 per cent of which are watching TV via terrestrial platforms, 27 per cent via Cable TV, and […]
According to new market data from ABI Research, 11.3 million pay-TV subscribers were added at the end of first quarter of 2011. “By the end of 2011, the total number of pay-TV subscriptions is expected to exceed 759 million,” says practice director Jason Blackwell of ABI Research. Cable TV still maintains the largest market share; […]