International Launch Services has won the contract to launch two new Turkish satellites. Turksat 4A will launch in late 2013 and Turksat 4B a few months later in early 2014. The design life of 15-year on orbit service of each satellite will provide telecommunication and direct TV broadcasting services throughout Turkey, as well as in […]
In a strategic partnership between Platform ‘n’ and FOX International Channels Poland, The National Geographic Channel HD will join Poland’s leading satellite platform line-up, effective immediately. With the addition of National Geographic in HD, Platform ‘n’ expands its subscriber offering to 26 HD channels, more than any other satellite pay television provider in Poland. As […]
Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]
The launch countdown for the Ariane 5 mission with the Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn satellites was interrupted prior to lift-off when an anomaly detected during the automated checkout procedure stopped the sequence before ignition of the solid boosters. The synchronised countdown was conducted as planned, including the start-up of Ariane 5’s cryogenic main […]
DekTec has responded to the multi-standard needs of the broadcast community worldwide by expanding its line of modulators with the DTA-2107 Satellite Modulator and DTA-2111 UHF/VHF Modulator. Both PCI Express cards have been developed based on customer requests for expanded capabilities and are made of the latest state-of-the-art components. They both cover either VHF/UHF or […]
According to the MAVISE database of the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, at the end of 2010 there were approximately 414 HD channels available in the EU, an increase from 274 at the end of 2009. This figure includes both HD specific channels and simulcasts of standard definition channels. […]
Asia’s leading satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) has revealed that Phoenix TV has signed a contract to distribute a new free to air Cantonese language channel ‘Phoenix Hong Kong’ through its MCPC (Multiple Channels per Carrier) platform on AsiaSat 3S. Utilising C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5oE, and the MCPC and uplinking […]
France’s leading pay-TV operator, Canal+, is to launch a free-to-air channel by the end of the year. The move would create a new competitor to major French broadcasters TF1 and M6 at a time when TV advertising is slipping in favour of digital and online ads. Chief Executive Bertrand Meheut told Le Figaro the channel […]
Discovery Networks International has confirmed that TLC International will be available in the Netherlands on July 4th with full distribution across analogue and digital TV platforms reaching 7 million homes. The announcement marks the one-year anniversary of the global launch of TLC International, the company’s new flagship entertainment and lifestyle network, which is now available […]
Satellite operator SES Astra is currently carrying eight 3D-TV channels, and is expecting more. Ferdinand Kayser, president of SES Astra, says the pattern of 3D launches is very similar to the early days of HDTV. “In Year One of HDTV we carried six channels. That number more or less doubled every year. We believe in […]