The UK’s main TV, radio and cellular mast operator and transmission company, Arqiva, has been plunged into financial uncertainty amid uncertainty over a looming digital switchover. The past few months have seen a main shareholder (Macquarie) selling off its 26.5 per cent holding in the business. Another shareholder, Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) is known to be […]

Macquarie Asset Management, on behalf of Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II and other Macquarie-managed vehicles, has agreed to the sale of their interests in Arqiva, the UK’s main distributor of TV, radio and cellular signals. Macquarie has been a long-term investor in Arqiva, which provides critical data, network, and communications services to media and utilities […]

SES and Arqiva have signed a multi-year, multi-million contract renewal for satellite capacity on SES’s prime video neighbourhood of 28.2 degrees East. SES will continue to provide multi-transponder capacity to enable Arqiva to deliver SD and HD channels as well as radio services to its customers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. SES’s […]

GB News has extended its distribution partnership with Arqiva. The agreement, which spans multiple years, includes Digital Terrestrial Television (Freeview) and DTH satellite TV spectrum, DAB+ Radio spectrum, and broadcast connectivity lines. Viewers accessing GB News via FreeSat will also benefit from the renewal. Marc Schipper, Chief Operating Officer at GB News, commented: “We’re delighted […]

Arqiva, the media services and communications infrastructure operator, has secured a deal with Hearst Networks to migrate the global broadcaster’s services to its fully cloud-based VoD processing platform, as part of an extension to the two companies’ existing VoD partnership. The new contract will see Arqiva continue to deliver VOD assets across 40+ pay-TV and […]

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointment of Mark Steele as Chief of Operations. Steele joined Arqiva in 2015 in a project capacity before being appointed Director of Service Operations later the same year. In 2021 he moved to become Director of Field Operations where he was responsible for the […]

Media services and communications infrastructure operator, Arqiva, and design architect for live cloud and broadcast solutions, Techex have announced a partnership to offer seamless distribution of live event content, from any source to anywhere globally. The agreement between the firms, combining Arqiva’s managed services and live IP software solutions from Techex, aims to remove the […]

Media services provider Arqiva has enhanced its portfolio of streaming services with the addition of new broadcast optimisation capability. Provided in collaboration with System73, the new service offerings for optimisation, QoE analytics and seamless CDN switching aim to reduce the delivery cost, latency, environmental impact and viewer satisfaction issues that come with the increasing requirement […]

Matthew Huntington is joining the advisory board of the Service List Registry (SLR) to support its mission to simplify how people view television and video. SLR provides a global online platform that enables media providers to announce their services and programmes, allowing viewers to discover them through compatible devices, displays and applications. Huntington was previously […]

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointments of Caroline Cardozo as Director of Product, and James Lelyveld as Director of Software Engineering. Cardozo joins Arqiva from Disguise, where she served as VP of Product. Prior to this, she was Director of Group Product, Discovery & AI at Sky where she […]