Eastern Europe will lose nearly 5 million pay-TV subscribers between 2020 and 2026 to take the total to 78.18 million, but the number of digital pay-TV subscribers will increase by nearly 6 million between 2020 and 2026 to 76 million, according to the Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research […]
The Express-103 spacecraft has been put into operation, joining the orbital constellation of Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) at 96.5 ° E. All in-orbit flight tests of the service systems module and the payload of Express-103 satellite were carried out in full and with positive results. The new communication satellite is designed to provide digital […]
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) says its Express-80 communications and broadcasting satellite is now working on station. The satellite was launched last July from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The satellite occupies RSCC’s orbital slot at 80° E. The Express-80 post-launch flight tests were carried out with positive results. Express 80 provides fixed and mobile services; […]
Reports out of Moscow state that Russia’s lower house of parliament (Duma) has legislated penalties for any citizen using Elon Musk’s Starlink or the UK/India-backed OneWeb low Earth orbiting satellite systems. Neither company currently has users in Russia. Russia is reportedly working on ‘Sphere’ (Сфера, in Russian), its own mega-constellation of satellites. But the probable […]
Gazprom Media Entertainment TV’s flag ship Russian channe,l TNT-International, has expanded its audience in the UK via free-to-air Channelbox on Freeview 271. There are over 300,000 Russian speakers living in the UK and TNT-International became the first free-to-air Russian channel launched on on the UK Freeview platform. Channelbox is a multi-channel OTT platform available on […]
5G is expected to account for almost 20 per cent of connections in the Russia Federation by 2025 according to GSMA Intelligence. But, the rollout would be faster and cheaper, if the government adopted international safety guidelines for radio spectrum, according to a study released by GSMA. The Russian Federal Government is rolling out its […]
OneWeb, which should be emerging from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early December, has shipped a batch of satellites to the Russian launch site at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Russia’s Far East. Vostochny, which means ‘Eastern’ in Russian, is Russia’s second spaceport and designed to take the launch pressure from its main rocket site at […]
A video insights report from Futuresource Consulting shows that although Russia’s SVoD market is underdeveloped, it is undergoing a rapid transformation. SVoD doubled in size last year to achieve RUB 6.6 billion (€71.2 million), exceeding the digital transactional market for the first time, and is on track to develop at a similar rate in 2020. […]
Tricolor has agreed a three-year deal granting it the rights to Warner Bros movies. Soon, viewers of the Russian multiplatform operator will be able to access to a number blockbusters from the Hollywood studio. Titles to be shown to the Tricolor audience include Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: […]
Russia is to invest $800 million on a new rocket system to compete directly with SpaceX and its reusable Falcon 9 launchers according to Russian news agency TASS. The Russian rocket system, called Amur, was signed with a contract between Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos and the Progress Space Rocket Center on the conceptual design of […]