Advanced Television

Philippines

SPOTV extends broadcast deal with Extreme E

Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, has renewed its broadcast partnership for Season 2 with SPOTV. The deal will see the sport for purpose Championship air live across Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. In addition, Extreme E’s magazine programme, highlights, preview and […]

February 23, 2022

FIFA Arab Cup draws record viewership for beIN

beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment broadcaster, and its flagship sports channel beIN Sports, revealed that it has achieved record-setting viewership figures of over 450 million cumulative views during the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 that was held from November 30th to December 18th 2021. In a move to make such a regionally […]

January 5, 2022

Starlink in talks with Philippine telcos

Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite business is talking to two Philippines-based telecom operators. The pair, namely Transpacific Broadband Group Int’l (TBGI) and fibre-optic broadband operator Converge ICT Solutions, are said to be looking to launch Starlink-based services in 2022, according to Bloomberg. The news comes on top of reports out of India that Musk has […]

November 3, 2021By Chris Forrester

Parasat Cable TV transitions away from MAC-PHY with Harmonic

Harmonic has announced that Philippines-based service provider Parasat Cable TV is modernizing its broadband operations with Harmonic’s CableOS Cloud-Native Core Platform, further adding to Harmonic’s growing roster of cable customers in the Asia-Pacific region. As the leader in virtualized access technology and distributed access architectures (DAA), Harmonic enables Parasat Cable TV to rapidly expand broadband […]

August 31, 2021

Philippines bans SkyCable DTH

The Philippine’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has banned SkyCable, the satellite DTH subsidiary of broadcaster ABS-CBN. SkyCable has about 1.5 million subscribers according to local reports. The NTC says that SkyCable’s licences have expired. However, ABS-CBN has also been ordered to ‘cease-and-desist’ its terrestrial broadcasts because on May 4th its transmission licence expired. SkyCable’s cable […]

July 6, 2020By Chris Forrester