The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ruled out any sort of merger between Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and arch-rival AT&T’s DirecTV. The two pay-TV giants are both losing subscribers and a merger between them has long been mooted, not least by Ergen who has frequently said that a merger was inevitable. However, the New […]
Eutelsat Communications’ HOTBIRD video neighborhood has been selected by Switzerland’s Kabelio AG for the launch of a new Swiss direct to home HD platform. This multi-year contract will enable Kabelio to leverage the ureach of Eutelsat’s premier hotspot to launch a service targeting Swiss audiences both at home and throughout Europe. Kabelio’s new line-up features […]
Bryce Space & Technology have created a graphic which explains and details the overall space and satellite industry, and broken down into its various component parts. The overall value of this huge global business is placed at $366 billion (€311.2bn) as at 2019. While the television-related segment is worth a massive $92 billion, an even […]
Quantum Metric, the SaaS platform that helps organisations build digital products, and DISH, has formed a new partnership with US pay-TV network DISH to build innovative new product experiences driven by customer behaviours, intelligence, and input. Through this collaboration, Quantum Metric will help DISH analyse technical and behavioral indicators while creating optimised in-page analytics that […]
The total pay-TV services revenue in India is expected to grow at a lethargic compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.7 per cent from $3.19 billion in 2020 to $3.30 billion in 2025 due to growing user substitution to OTT platforms, according to GlobalData. GlobalData’s India Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report reveals that though pay-TV […]
African pay-TV operator Azam TV has completed the migration of its video platform from the Eutelsat 7B to Eutelsat 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of the existing contract and an incremental capacity commitment. Azam will leverage the enhanced performance of Eutelsat 7 C to distribute some 120 channels in a mix of standard and […]
Tele Maroc has signed an exclusive carriage deal with Arabsat from its BADR-5 satellite at 26 degrees East. Tele Maroc is a Moroccan satellite TV channel transmitted from the Spanish capital, Madrid, showing entertainment, talk shows, documentaries and sports. Rachid Niny, founder of Tele Maroc, said: “We are delighted at Tele Maroc to be available […]
Investment bank Berenberg has reiterated its ‘Buy’ rating for Eutelsat and gives the Paris-based satellite operator a target price of €12.75. Its shares were trading on September 14th at about €9.29, and up some 3.75 per cent during the day. Berenberg’s view is that the recent renewal of some key Sky Italia contracts “provides further […]
There may be some doom and gloom about the depressed state of consumer demand on aircraft and other Covid-affected businesses, but an analysis of the overall space industry by Bryce on behalf of the Satellite Industry Association paints a rosy picture for last year. Bryce says that Satellite-based services, representing some 45 per cent of […]
A report from Standard & Poors Market Intelligence (S&P) by Sarah Barry-James suggests that the potential for some sort of ‘merger’ between AT&T’s DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network poses risks. Ergen is on the record as saying that a combination of the two DTH pay-TV giants is “inevitable”. But S&P reminds readers that Constantine […]