Northern Sky Research (NSR) forecasts that by the end of this year there will be some 196 4K channels broadcasting. SES, in a presentation at the recent NAB show in Las Vegas, says they are already carrying 50 of them, and that around the world there are a total of 131 4K channels available to […]
Israel’s Spacecom has again suffered a postponement of the launch of its AMOS-17 satellite, this time to July. Spacecom made its statement to the Tel Aviv stock exchange on April 28th. Amos-17 had been expected to launch in the May 20th – June 19th time period aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. Spacecom […]
Satellite operator SES gained a very useful 8.3 per cent (€1.16) share price gain on April 26th following mostly favourable comments from analysts reporting on the company’s results, and in particular CEO Steve Collar’s comments on the C-Band Alliance’s plan to restructure some capacity over the US. Collar told the market analysts that there was […]
Declining pay-TV subscriptions in the UK suggest that cord-cutting, which is well established in the US, is now beginning to affect the European market, according to findings from research firm Strategy Analytics. Its report, European Pay TV Index, found
Spain’s pay-TV revenues in 2018 remained flat as a result of the price war between the rival platforms. The latest data from the CNMC reveals that the Spanish platforms only improved their revenues by 1.2 per cent in 2018, despite the growth of 210,000 subscribers to 6.78 million. Overall, platforms made €2.16 billion in revenues […]
SES Q1 numbers (to March 31st) showed overall revenues down 2.3 per cent at €489.6 million, with its Video division suffering badly with revenues down 7.3 per cent. The operator’s Network division continues to perform well with revenues up 5.4 per cent. US Video revenues showed a similar decline where it is heavily involved in […]
Last week Intelsat declared its IS-29e as a “total loss”. Analysts at Northern Sky Research (NSR) said that writing off 12 years of near-guaranteed revenue (and adding 6552 kgs of space debris to the crucially important geostationary orbital arc) is an overall bitter pill for Intelsat. The satellite was not insured. NSR said that while […]
April 24th saw satellite operator SES announce a new deal for its fast-growing ‘Networks’ division. The announcement covered delivery of broadband to Teleglobal’s clients in 150,000 sites amongst Indonesia’s 17,000 island archipelago. Teleglobal will take 1.3 GHz of capacity on SES-12. The news came ahead of SES’ quarterly numbers due on April 26th. Analysts at […]
Described as a local innovator and disruptor, Thai-based mu Space has signed a partnership with Relativity to launch a small Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket. What’s unusual with Relativity is that they claim world leadership in 3D printing of components for their rockets using the world’s largest 3D printer. Relativity […]
India’s Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has demanded that pay-TV broadcaster Airtel Digital TV get its house in order following a succession of failures to address subscriber concerns. To show how tough its demands are, TRAI is insisting on total compliance within five days, that is by this coming weekend. TRAI also warned that other pay-TV […]