Analysts at investment bank BNP-Paribas have welcomed the $23 billion (€19.6bn) agreement from US cellular giant AT&T to acquire spectrum from EchoStar. But the bank says it is not the best news for cable operators. “Overall, we see this as a good deal for AT&T and the wireless industry in general, and a small negative […]

Zayo Europe has announced the appointment of Davin Rice as Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer, effective immediately. Rice brings over a decade of experience building and scaling fibre infrastructure globally. Most recently, Rice led the Global Backbone Network Development team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). His work included driving its global fibre investment strategy, […]

Thaicom, the Asian satellite operator and space tech company, has announced that its subsidiary, Space Tech Innovation Company Limited (STI) has successfully signed a $184 million ECA supported export credit facility with Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered Bank for the THAICOM 10 Satellite. Under the agreement, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered Bank will provide STI […]

Film and TV studio Fifth Season has appointed David Wilcox as SVP Sales EMEA, as its latest senior leadership hire. Effective immediately, Wilcox will lead the company’s television distribution strategy across the EMEA region and will report into Fifth Season’s EVP of Television Distribution, Jennifer Ebell. In his new role, Wilcox will be responsible for […]

Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), Canada’s largest South Asian broadcaster and a long-standing advocate for protecting the rights of creators, has applauded the recent Ontario court ruling that sentenced two individuals to five years in prison for contempt of court after refusing to comply with orders in a long-running digital piracy case. The case, […]

RSC-Energia (S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia), a main component of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, is very short of funding – and business. A report on the Gazeta newsite said that the Energia portion of Russia’s space and rocket enterprise was being prepared for a sale to a private individual. However, the more official […]

MediaForEurope (MFE) looks set to control of ProSiebenSat.1 after Czech investment group PPF declared it would sell its 15.7 per cent stake – comprising of 36,539,628 shares – in the German broadcaster to the TV group controlled by Italy’s Berlusconi family. The move clears the way for MFE take full control of ProSiebenSat.1, effectively putting […]

Statistics show that HMRC paid out £2.4 billion (€2.7bn) in creative industries tax reliefs and expenditure credits for the year to March 31st 2024 – a 10 per cent increase from £2.19 billion in the previous year. High-end TV reliefs continue to dominate the picture with claims at record levels of £1.1 billion. In fact, […]

Brazil’s official adoption of its ‘DTV+’ system marks a major milestone in the Americas’ transition to next-generation broadcasting, according to ATSC, The Broadcast Standards Association, the international standards development organisation behind the suite of standards known as ATSC 3.0. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a landmark Presidential Decree on August 27th establishing […]

The news that AT&T is paying some $23 billion (€19.8bn) for terrestrial cellular spectrum to EchoStar has alerted many analysts to the implied value of EchoStar’s remaining telephony spectrum. Reports are numerous that both Elon Musk – who has long coveted EchoStar satellite spectrum – and AT&T rival T-Mobile could be next in line for […]