Spanish construction and telecoms giant Abertis is buying a large stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat from Telefónica. Abertis, which recently cut its investment in Eutelsat by half, is paying $164.5 million for Telefónica’s 13 per cent stake in the Spanish operator. It means Abertis controls almost 50 per cent of Hispasat. Abertis will now […]
YahSat’s second satellite (Y1B), expected to be launched in a few days, has been delayed until April. The delays are the result of delays with the Russia Proton-ILS launch rocket over the December-January period, and two other technical glitches which happened prior the successful launch of SES-4 last weekend. Tareq Abdul Raheem Al Hosani, Yahsat’s […]
YahLive has allocated both satellite capacity and a number of HD channels to provide broadcasters with connectivity and service, from London to the Middle East, to facilitate TV coverage of the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics. Collaborating with its European strategic partners, YahLive will provide local connections and uplink facilities, including DVB/S2 MPGE4 encoding for satellite […]
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES reported record profits for its full year 2011 numbers (to December 31st) as well as continued growth in its fleet (which now numbers 50 satellites) helped by this past week’s launch of SES-4. However, overall launch delays of new satellites plus some problems with specific satellites harmed, and continue to harm, […]
Paris-based satellite ‘supra-regional’ operator Eutelsat reported “solid” half-year results (to December 31st) on February 17th. Eutelsat reported revenue growth up 4.6 per cent to €602.4 million, and a record order book backlog of €5.3 billion (up a very healthy 9.6 per cent). However, the cost of refinancing €1.8 billion-worth of group debt at the end […]
Satellite operator SES is relocating its AMC-3 craft from its former location of 87 degrees West to 67 degrees West to optimise coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. The 67 degrees West orbital position offers an extensive Ku-band satellite frequency range and excellent viewing angles for coverage of the Americas and the Caribbean, […]
Aspera has confirmed that pay-tv provider Sky Deutschland has deployed Aspera’s next-generation file sharing, content distribution and automation frameworks that exploit the company’s patented ‘fasp’ transport platform for high performance automated ingest from global content suppliers, high-speed gathering of breaking news and sports from field reporters and complete VoD orchestration. “With this new deployment, we […]
Thomson Video Networks has revealed that the BBC is ready to broadcast five high-quality general entertainment HD channels from a single DVB-T2 multiplex using Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE EM3000 encoders. Extensive technical trials conducted by the broadcaster in collaboration with Ofcom confirmed that the ViBE EM3000 provides encoding improvements enabling the delivery of a fifth […]
Thomson Video Networks has announced that the BBC is ready to broadcast five high-quality general entertainment HD channels from a single DVB-T2 multiplex using Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE EM3000 encoders. Extensive technical trials conducted by the broadcaster in collaboration with Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the U.K. communications industries, confirmed that the […]
Vimond will showcase a beta version of its upcoming Online Video Platform (OVP) product code-named VCC (Vimond Control Center). VCC builds on the current robust nature of the Vimond media platform, but simplifies the publishing workflow and adds powerful features that easily make it the most complete online TV tool on the market today. VCC […]