Earlier this week Giles Thorne, a media & telecoms analyst at investment bank Jefferies, gave Eutelsat a set of rosy expectations and a target share price of €18. A similar examination of prospects for satellite operator SES does not deliver the same optimistic forecasts… Indeed, the bank’s summary is pretty miserable, and despite a ‘Buy’ […]
Grupo A, a media consortium based in Guatemala City, has partnered with SES, the specialist in global content connectivity solutions, and Trabroadcast, a local integrator for several TV stations in Guatemala and Honduras, to provide a full suite of managed services to broadcast two local free-to-air channels, Canal Antigua and Conectados con Dios TV, to […]
Canadian satellite operator Telesat has welcomed Canada’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development’s (ISED) inclusion of Telesat’s proposal to reallocate expeditiously the highly-desirable 3800 MHz, ‘C-band’, mid-band spectrum from fixed satellite use to 5G services in its recently-released consultation on the future of that band. According to Telesat, its proposal is the only plan […]
Eutelsat has signed a “multi-year” strategic agreement worth €450 million over its life with Sky Italia, a “premier anchor customer” for renewed Eutelsat capacity on its ‘HOTBIRD’ craft. “The agreement represents the latest step in the long-standing partnership between Sky, the pre-eminent anchor customer on HOTBIRD, and Eutelsat which has supported since 2003 the development […]
AT&T has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to advise it on a sale of its DTH pay-TV operation DirecTV. AT&T bought DirecTV back in 2015 and – including the operator’s borrowings – paid some $67 billion overall ($49 billion plus debts). But the AT&T purchase happened with the rise and rise of rival content bouquets […]
M7 Group, the European pay-TV provider serving over 3 million homes, has concluded satellite capacity agreements with two new channels for distribution via Skylink, the market leading DTH platform on ASTRA 23.5 East for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Klenot TV is owned by Budapest-based Emporia Style Kft. Klenot TV is a new free-to-air shopping channel […]
Further to the announcement that Sky Arts, the UK’s only channel dedicated to arts and culture, will be made available to everyone, Sky has confirmed a launch date, as well as programming and EPG details. Sky Arts will join DTT platform Freeview on September 17th on channel number 11. According to Sky, the prominent channel […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellites fleet, and Novelsat, a global player in content connectivity over satellite, have announced the successful demonstration of end-to-end video delivery over AMOS-17 high throughput satellite, from network core to network edge, serving user devices over a wireless network and showcasing high-quality user experience. The demonstration illustrated a complete network […]
Riyadh-based Arabsat has ordered a new satellite from Airbus. BADR-8, described by Arabsat as the first of its 7th generation of satellites, will be built by Airbus Defense & Space and with an expected launch date of early 2023. BADR-8 will be propelled to orbit based on Airbus Eurostar Neo electric orbit-raising technology. A launch […]
Pay-TV subscriptions increased by 16 million to 1.028 billion in 2019 across 138 countries, according to the Pay TV Databook from analyst firm Digital TV Research. The growth is in emerging markets. “IPTV is the pay-TV winner,” reports Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research. “IPTV added 49 million subscribers in 2019 to take […]