A well-sourced report from India suggests that broadcasting giant Dish TV (part of the Essel-backed Zee empire) and Bharti Airtel Digital TV are contemplating a merger. Currently Dish TV India is the nation’s largest with 23.6 million subs (as at December 31st) and a 41 per cent market share. Dish merged in March last year […]
Reports from Florida’s Space Coast suggest that SpaceX’s next commercial flight launch will be Arabsat’s latest craft to join its fleet, 6A, will lift off at 6.36 pm (Florida time) on April 7th subject to the usual weather conditions and final readiness checks. Arabsat 6A had been initially expected to launch during Q4 2018. SpaceX […]
Bezeq Israel Telecom is dumping satellite DTH delivery of its Yes TV bouquet of pay-TV channels and switching instead to an all-broadband delivery. The switch to online delivery will be gradual, says Bezeq. The news has hit satellite operator Spacecom hard which saw its shares plummet by 8.5 per cent in trading on March 14th. […]
Satellite operator SES is now beaming 15 new Free To Air channels into the West African state of Benin. SES has assigned an agreement with the country’s government to supply the services, which means that a number of HD channels will be broadcast over Benin, making it the first HD channels to be available over […]
Eutelsat has used the CabSat show in Dubai to launch Cirrus, a hybrid satellite plus OTT delivery of programming and channels. Eutelsat has signed up its first customer, MondoGlobo/MCNC, which will deliver its Telearabia PRO bundle to users, initially to a group of London hotels. Mondo Globo’s new TV platform of Arabic-language SD channels, specifically […]
The Asia Pacific pay-TV sector is vibrant, with both subscribers (up by 68 million) and revenues (up by $2.35 billion) forecast to rise over the next five years. However, these forecasts are lower than the previous Asia Pacific Pay-TV Forecasts report, mainly due to many cable subscribers in China converting to OTT. Simon Murray, Principal […]
Anevia, a provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, and Quadrille, a specialist in delivering file and live content over satellite, have strengthened their partnership to offer OTT over satellite. The joint solution will enable content providers and operators to offer live-TV services, without sacrificing stream quality, in situations where it was previously unavailable due […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 2,875,000 net video subscribers in 2018, compared to a pro forma loss of about 1,510,000 subscribers in 2017. The top pay-TV providers account for 89.1 million subscribers – with […]
Global television news network RT has expanded its partnership with Yahlive, the Abu Dhabi-based satellite joint venture between SES and the UAE satellite company Yahsat, by introducing RT France HD to French speakers in the MENA region via Yahlive’s MENA beam. For the next three years, RT France HD will be added to Yahlive’s existing […]
The UK space industry is worth some €12 billion annually, and helps fund 40,000 jobs, according to a report entitled Brexit: Lost in Space,which states bluntly that these jobs are at risk if Brexit happens. “Post Brexit, no CEO would locate a space company [in the UK]. It’s galactic scale stupidity,” says author Will Marshall. […]