Sixty five UK towns and cities are in the running to pioneer the UK’s first local television services says Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. With the first wave of licences due to be awarded next year, the eligible areas including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, Leeds and Southampton are being asked to make the case for their […]
Global security provider Conax announced it has entered a contract with Brazilian cable TV operator, SimTV. In the contract Conax will deliver a high-end content protection solution for SIMTV’s cable TV service and guidance for the digitisation of the operator’s 16 remote sites throughout the country. SimTV, a leading player within the Brazilian market, offers […]
Following the unfavourable weather conditions which led to the postponement of the scheduled August 5 launch of Arianespace Flight 203, the craft was successfully launched on August 6th at 19.52 pm local time (00:52 pm Central European Summer Time August 7th) from Kourou, French Guiana. The mission placed into geostationary transfer orbit the Astra 1N […]
T-VIPS, a global specialist in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, hasannounced that the T-VIPS TNS541 Seamless TS Monitoring Switch and the CP560 DVB-T2 Gateway have been installed to provide seamless switching within the Arqiva DVB-T2/SFN digital terrestrial network. The phased roll-out began in April 2011 and is scheduled to be completed in time for […]
SES World Skies has struck a new capacity deal with the YES Network in the US, the nation’s premier regional sports network and the television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees and the New Jersey Nets. As part of the multi-year agreement, YES Network is now using a full transponder of C-band […]
German popular newspaper BILD, published by Axel Springer, is taking a key position on the surface of the giant Arianespace rocket that will carry Luxembourg’s Astra 1N and Japan’s BSAT-3c into orbit on the night of August 5-6. BILD has been running reader competitions and the reward, other than a visit to the launch site […]
The strategic acquisition of the leading provider of innovative FM/RDS and DVB-S/S2 solutions strengthens the Wilhelm Sihn Jr. GmbH & Co. KG (WISI) has announced the take-over of 2wCom. Since more than two decades 2wCom has been a worldwide established manufacturer and supplier of professional broadcasting products in the field of DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, FM, RDS-TMC […]
SES unveiled its half-year results on July 29, stating that recurring revenues were up 3 per cent to €853 million, EBITDA up 4.2 per cent to €644.4 million and a margin of 75.5 per cent, culminating in operating profit up 4.1 per cent to €402m. SES’s overall backlog stands at €7 billion. SES says the […]
Everyone expected Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat to improve on last year’s revenues of €1.04 billion. Few would have expected growth of 11.5 per cent, well above guidance, and taking revenues to an impressive €1.168 billion. Indeed, Eutelsat is now saying that this current trading year (to June 30 2012) will see revenues above €1.235 billion, […]
Following comments made July 27 by UK commercial broadcaster ITV as it reported its Interim Results that it was seeking to drive new revenue streams by exploiting its content across multiple platforms, free and pay, satellite operator SES Astra has revealed that ITV has signed a long-term agreement for satellite capacity. The agreement provides for […]