As expected, Sky Deutschland has confirmed greater losses for the year (to December 31st 2010), despite managing to grow sales revenues impressively up 8 per cent (to €977.8m) with Q4 revenue well ahead of 2009’s effort at €263.7 million (€230m in 2009). But the headlines will be the widening losses, with EBITDA loss at €268.6 […]
Along with the impressive DirecTV results, released yesterday, the numbers are also in for Sky Mexico, a joint-venture between Televisa and DirecTV. Sky Mexico has topped 3 million subs (3.04m) as at December 31st, and a huge 35.6 per cent jump since 2009 (where DTH subs totalled 1.95m). A joint press release from Mexico City […]
New Media Legend, one of Russia’s principal suppliers of uplink services for pay-TV platforms and channels, has selected the 36° East satellite neighbourhood operated by Eutelsat Communications for a new broadcasting platform providing Russian and international channels to complement the NTV Plus and Tricolor TV platforms. Following the signature of a long-term contract with Eutelsat, […]
German DTH pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland is reportedly expected to make an even larger fourth-quarter loss than a year ago. Sky Deutschland’s numbers will be revealed on Thursday. A Reuters poll of bankers, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, shows a forecast loss for Sky-D of €95 million ($129.9m) compared with a loss of €81.6 […]
Broadcasting analogue TV signals to Germany since 1990 has been the financial bedrock for SES. German viewers have enjoyed some 40 free-to-air channels over most of those years, and SES Astra has enjoyed the income, amongst the highest paid anywhere on the globe for transponder capacity. Now the glory days are coming to an end. […]
TopTV is the Johannesburg-based DTH rival to Multichoice’s DStv digital TV system. SES Astra currently owns 20 per cent of the enterprise, but SES Chairman & CEO Romain Bausch says it will not be holding onto its TopTV stake. While no sell date was announced, Bausch, speaking during the SES year-end results call on February […]
Every year the Society of Satellite Professionals elects a handful of VIPs to its Hall of Fame, designed to recognise the special contribution made by the individuals concerned. Past honourees include the ‘father of satellite broadcasting’ Arthur C Clarke. This year’s group will be honoured on March 15 in Washington DC, and includes Eutelsat’s former […]
Neelie Kroes, European Commission VP for the Digital Agenda, has issued an urgent call to twenty one EU countries to rapidly introduce all the legislative measures necessary to allow the pan-EU deployment of mobile satellite services that could be used for high-speed Internet, mobile television and radio or emergency communications to EU consumers and businesses. […]
Europe’s two giant satellite operators, SES Astra and Eutelsat, have both turned in blisteringly good results. SES’ results (for the year to December 31st) declared revenues up 7.1 per cent to €1.735 billion, and with record operating profits, up 10.8 per cent, to €797 million. Luxembourg’s SES’ President Romain Bausch said that a net 76 […]
Fashion TV (FTV) will start test-broadcasting in full 3D on February 18th. FTV’s 3D signals will beam out daily at 2pm and 11pm for Europe, Asia (Hong Kong time) and the USA (ET), from a total of 10 satellites around the globe. Signals are being uplinked by RRSat. FTV is building up content, including the […]