A survey from the VAB Measurement Innovation Task Force has found that US networks and advertisers are adopting new currencies and measurement solutions at higher levels of use and investment than ever before. The survey – whose findings represent 90 per cent of the TV ad revenue in the market, inclusive of the major TV […]
The world’s three leading satellite operators are talking about mergers. Eutelsat has announced its plan to merge with OneWeb, while SES is reported to be in talks to merge with Intelsat. But the market has delivered a devastating comment on both sets of reports. For example, Eutelsat suffered a massive fall in its share price […]
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flight plan has slipped further. It will not resume flights on its VSS Unity spaceplane until Q2 2023. Virgin says its upgrades to its SpaceShipTwo aircraft are taking longer than expected. It had previously stated that commercial flights would take place during Q1 2023. Virgin’s main task is work […]
Further details following on from Eutelsat’s end-of-year financials show that the satellite operator earned €78 million from its Russian broadcasting clients. However, it is also owed $37 million (€36.17m) by International Launch Services (ILS) which commercialises the launches of the Russian ‘Proton’ rocket. ILS is US-based in Reston, Virginia, but uses Russian-built rockets (made by […]
UK-based broadcast system integrator dB Broadcast has further expanded the range of system integration capabilities offered following the acquisition of S3 Satcom’s successful satellite systems business and specialist antenna positioning products portfolio – Satsio and Fiesta. S3 Satcom Limited went into Member’s Voluntary Liquidation at the end of March 2022, but the Directors were keen […]
French satellite operator Eutelsat has ceased the European broadcast of Russian satellite channel NTV Mir following a request from media regulator Arcom. The channel had compared Ukrainians to Nazis. The regulator noted that NTV Mir “tends to present repeatedly not only the Ukrainian leadership and the Ukrainian army, but also and above all the Ukrainian […]
Fitch Ratings has affirmed UK transmission company Arqiva and its Arqiva Financing and Arqiva PP Financing plc’s whole business securitisation bonds at ‘BBB’. It has also affirmed Arqiva Broadcast Finance plc’s high-yield (HY) bonds at ‘B-‘. The Outlooks are Stable, says Fitch. Arqiva enjoys long-term RPI-linked contracts and a monopoly in terrestrial television and radio […]
Eutelsat’s full-year 2021-2022 results were inevitably overshadowed by the news of its “transformational” merger plan with OneWeb. The headline was a statement that the company expects to return to top-line growth in its full year’s trading during 2023-2024. However, in terms of hard cash, almost all of Eutelsat’s key divisional verticals were in negative territory […]
Supercars has turned to Gravity Media for the third year running to produce and facilitate the Cash Converters Supercars Eseries, an eSports competition that started back in 2020 during Covid lockdowns. The Eseries takes place on the iRacing platform, running over six weekly rounds from now through to August 24th. Gravity Media’s Australian operation set […]
Tubular Labs, a specialist in global social video intelligence and measurement, has announced a partnership with Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of TV production company Banijay. With a multi-genre portfolio of over 130,000 hours of programming, Banijay Rights is using Tubular Labs to gain a better understanding of the company’s social media content strategies […]