Late (at 4.54 EDT/5.54pm local time) on August 2, an Ariane 5 rocket successfully placed into orbit two satellites, Intelsat-20 and Hylas-2. It was the 50th successful mission for Ariane, and the fourth flight this year, another record. Intelsat-20, built by Space Systems/Loral, will go to 68.5 degrees East and serve DTH customers in India, […]

Chellomedia and CBS Studios have confirmed a new agreement to create CBS-branded channels from Chello Zone’s existing bouquet of channels in 83 territories across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This new partnership expands on a successful UK venture for CBS-branded channels that the companies launched in November 2009. Similar to the UK venture, channels […]

WRN Broadcast is working with Television Jamaica (TVJ), Jamaica’s number one television station, throughout the duration of the Olympic Games. Hosted in WRN Broadcast’s Media Village in Vauxhall, London, TVJ is being provided studio facilities for live programme recording and the ad hoc transatlantic delivery of non-Olympic rights holder content from WRN Broadcast’s Media Village to […]

Eutelsat’s full year results were released late on July 30 showing some extremely solid numbers, including confirmation of an extra satellite order for the operator’s increasingly ‘hot’ orbital spot over the Middle East. But conspicuous by its absence was any detailed explanation on Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat and its TooWay ‘broadband by satellite’ service. Eutelsat says its […]

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES reported further revenue growth on July 27 (for the six months to June 30) citing successes in winning business from new markets as being partly responsible. Revenues were up 4.8 per cent over the same period last year (to €892 million) and generating an operating profit up 2.4 per cent to […]

Chello DMC, an international provider of advanced playout and content management solutions, has been selected to provide playout and distribution services for Chello Zone’s women-oriented drama and entertainment channel, Zone Romantica. From 1st August 2012 Chello DMC will distribute the channel in standard definition to 21 countries via Telstar 12 (T12) satellite. The channel will […]

This Friday (July 27th) SES will unveil its latest financial numbers, but ahead of those figures, it says that it is now leading its rivals in terms of HDTV deployment, and is carrying more than 1,300 high-def channels. They comprise more than 25 per cent of the 5200 channels carried by the SES fleet. As […]

Motive Television has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Siyaya Free to Air (Pty) Ltd of Johannesburg, South Africa (Siyaya) for the use of Motive’s Anytime Anywhere technology in a new pay television service for the South African market. Siyaya has recently submitted an application to South Africa’s licencing authority to be allocated […]