Satellite operator SES is maintaining pressure on Intelsat and its lawyers over the upcoming trial between the two regarding the disputed division of FCC C-band incentive payments. SES, in its filing to Intelsat’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy court on April 8th, asked the court to compel Intelsat to supply documents ahead of the trial. SES says […]
Different investment analysts regularly come up with varied opinions as regards their favourite picks in the satellite industry. Now Sami Kassab, from investment bank Exane/BNPP, in a major report takes a deep examination into Europe’s two leading satellite operators. He concludes by favouring SES. His study extends to one of today’s hottest business prospects; SpaceX […]
Twenty-five years ago, on April 9, 1996, a combined Russian, American and European team made space history with the first launch of a Western satellite onboard a Russian rocket. The Proton launch vehicle carried the ASTRA 1F satellite for SES of Luxembourg, to geosynchronous transfer orbit with an early morning liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]
A series of motions filed into Intelsat’s bankruptcy court on March 31st asks the court to place under formal seal the document flow following on from Intelsat’s requests for SES to supply its correspondence with the then joint legal advisors to the C-Band Alliance (Hogan Lovells US LLP). The motion from Intelsat’s lawyers states that […]
SES has dramatically turned up the heat in its increasingly acrimonious dispute with Intelsat over the division of the FCC’s ‘incentive’ payments for C-Band restructuring over the US. There will be a detailed court hearing on SES’s allegations in June. Intelsat has already asked its bankruptcy court to ‘seal’ many of the documents, but SES, […]
The growth of IPTV and satellite TV has seen DTT significantly decline as the main TV distribution system, going from 60.3 per cent of households which were watching daily TV via terrestrial in 2016 to 41.1 per cent in 2020, according to a report from SES Astra Spain. The report reveals a solid growth in […]
Ed Horowitz ran SES’s Americom business from 2005-2008 and was an Executive VP at Viacom for 8 years (1989-1997) and SVP/Operations at HBO (1974-1989). In other words, he has plenty of media and satellite experience. He now wants to raise $250 million for his next venture which is very much space related. For the past […]
Satellite operator SES has been re-examined by investment bank Jefferies based on its most recent financials and guidance for the rest of this year. The result can best be described as “mixed”. SES has guided that overall revenues will slip back for this next couple of years and these forecasts are reflected in the bank’s […]
Babeleye, a global specialist in content metadata for video plathorms, has integrated its Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) solution into the HD+ Service, the recently launched premium broadcast TV service marketed by SES HD+ Ghana, a subsidiary of SES. The HD+ EPG is based on DVB standards, and is currently presented in English language. Theodore Asampong, […]
The annual SES Satellite Monitor survey shows that, globally, 361 million homes are being reached by SES (as at the end of 2020), but this is a fall from 2019 data, which stood at 367 million. Nick Stubbs, SES’s SVP/GM for Western Europe, hosted a briefing event and Ricardo Topham, senior market business analyst at […]