Analysts at Guggenheim Securities are backing Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network DTH operation and have marked it as one of its “Best Ideas” list and that Dish “offers the most significant upside opportunity in 2019”. In fact, while Dish makes the key list a previous incumbent, telco giant T-Mobile has been dropped from the listing. Guggenheim […]
Measat is broadcasting eight channels targeting Nepalese viewers including its latest offering Himalaya TV HD across the Nepal region and wider Asia Pacific areas from its Measat-3 satellite Himalaya TV (HTV) was founded in 2010 is a Kathmandu-based private television company of Nepal. HTV produces news and entertainment programmes that raises awareness of human issues […]
Thaicom says it has resolved its dispute with the Thailand government and which will result in an improved relationship under a public-private partnership. The long-running dispute had threatened Thaicom’s satellite activity, including its orbital slots and the right to operate. The resolution of the problems means that Thaicom can now start planning for the future, […]
The SES end of year ‘report card’ is in, and in general the results went down well with the market. As investment bank Jefferies’ Giles Thorne was typical and said in a note to clients that SES had a strong finish to the year. “SES outperformed 4Q/2018 expectations (+4.4 per cent ahead on revenue, +1.1 […]
SES has unveiledits 2018 results, and after three years of top line declines in some of its key divisions, CEO Steve Collar reported a return to group organic revenue growth of 1.9 percent. Importantly, SES said that it believed it is making “considerable progress” with its C-band initiative for the realignment of some 200 MHz […]
SES has confirmed that its newest satellite, SES-12, is now ready to serve its video, fixed data, mobility and government customers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The satellite, which is designed with wide beams and high throughput beams, will join SES-8 at 95 degrees East. SES-12 is the latest satellite that SES has launched […]
The top 10 service providers in the US lost 1,121,300 television subscribers between them in the last quarter of 2018, as reported by the informitv Multiscreen Index. That represents 1.36 per cent of their combined subscriber base. The two satellite services lost 784,000 subscribers between them. Cable had a better quarter, with the two leading […]
According to a report in French business newspaper Les Echos, SpaceX boss Elon Musk, has complained to Washington DC authorities about what he argues is “unfair competition” from Europe and its cash going to Arianespace. Musk’s concern was submitted to Edward Gresser, Assistant US Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics, and says that the […]
Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar Satellite Services (ESS) operation is abandoning its DTH efforts over Brazil, and taking a $65 million hit by recognising that its $80 million investment in 2011 for DTH rights from the 45 degrees West orbital slot serving Brazil has not worked out. The news emerged from EchoStar’s conference call with analysts, when […]
BPI France (Banque Publique d’Investissement), a French state-backed investment bank, has significantly reduced its stake-holding in Eutelsat. BPI has sold about 15.5 million shares in the French satellite operator, and equal to 6.67 per cent of the company. BPI will retain about 19.8 per cent of its Eutelsat holdings. “This partial disposal reflects our strategy […]