SES has opened a new full-service sports and events facility in the London area to handle downlink, decoding, processing, and recording, and services to help simplify the workflow of sports production. The new SES Stockley Park facility offers content management services such as clipping and editing, subtitling, audio dubbing and titling, storing and archiving of…

Eutelsat and Sky Italia have reached a deal to renew Sky’s capacity contract at Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD position. The Monday announcement was light on details, but Eutelsat said the multi-year contract represents a secured backlog of about 450 million euros ($532 million) and guarantees “broadly stable annual revenues for Eutelsat in the medium term.” It also…

Azercosmos entered into a partnership agreement with Globecast to increase capacity and coverage across Africa. As a result of this agreement, Globecast can supply its customers in Africa with increased C-band capacity on the Azerspace-1 satellite. Globecast's platforms and customers can now receive signals from the Azerspace-1 satellite and provide general entertainment, news, sports and…

AT&T is considering selling satellite TV business DirecTV, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Potential bidders include Apollo Global Management Inc. and Platinum Equity, the Journal reported.  AT&T bought DirecTV in 2015 in a deal valued at $48.5 billion. Including DirecTV’s debt, the total purchase price was about $67.1 billion. According to the Journal,…