TRT has announced the launch of the new HD variant of its Arabic language channel, TRT Arabi in HD. This has been made possible via a multi‐year agreement with Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, and TRT strategic partner Turksat, Turkey’s first and unique satellite operator. TRT Arabi can to be viewed in HD […]
A pair of satellites now in the final stages of preparation by Arianespace for a launch readiness review on February 4th are especially important its two clients. Subject to passing the review, launch should happen on February 5th, subject to weather conditions. The first ‘passenger’ is HellasSat-4/Saudi 1, a so-called condosat having been built by […]
Ali bin Ahmed Al-Kuwari, CEO at Qatar-based Es’hailSat, has called into question the role of intergovernmental agencies, such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and their lack of action over the on-going piracy by Saudi Arabia of beIN Media’s channels and in particular sports transmissions. There is consistent wholesale piracy of beIN’s output by beoutQ, […]
A senior executive at Arianespace says the company will discount the launch costs for its remaining Ariane 5 rockets in order to compete with SpaceX. Arianespace is developing a lower cost Ariane 6 version, and the new prices will reflect the lower costs promised for the new Ariane 6. Arianespace’s MD/Head of sales for the […]
Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator, together with the telecommunications services provider Media Broadcast Satellite have agreed a deal with an initial duration of five years to distribute FunBox UHD in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMEA). The channel, which belongs to the content provider SPI International, is a thematic channel about nature, […]
A ‘reveal all’ website has been published by pay-TV operator beIN Media Group which it claims publicly exposes what it describes as the “industrial scale theft” of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ – the Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel – and Arabsat – the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider – for the past 18 […]
India’s public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati is restructuring its guidelines for the allocation and sale of broadcasting slots on its Doordarshan DTH ‘Free Dish’ platform. The system has an estimated 30 million viewing homes. Doordarshan intends auctioning a batch of channel slots for transmission in MPEG-2, starting on February 11th. This will be the 38th e-Auction […]
Arianespace has taken delivery of its next mission’s second satellite (India’s GSAT-31) which will join Saudi Arabia’s HellasSat-4 craft which arrived a few days ago. The Ariane 5 launch is currently scheduled for February 5th (weather permitting). The launch also starts another year of launch campaigns for Arianespace which reported a flat 2018 in terms […]
Thaicom, the Asian satellite operator and provider of integrated satellite end-to-end solutions, has announced that True Visions Group, an Asian pay-TV provider, has signed a long-term transponder capacity contract. The company has retained several Ku-band transponders on the new Thaicom-8 satellite which delivers pay-TV services to audiences in Thailand and across Asia including premier sports […]
The latest data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) shows extremely modest growth from the nation’s 5 DTH operators. TRAI says the operators added just 80,000 net new (active) subs in the quarter-year to September 30th. At that point the five players had about 69.45 million subscribers (69.37m as at July 31st). Dish […]