Focus: Broadcasting

SES has signed a new capacity agreement with one of Europe’s biggest DTH players. It has extended its long-standing partnership with Sky through a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighborhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East. SES announced the new deal on Oct. 10. Under the agreement, SES will...

DirecTV is acquiring EchoStar‘s video distribution business, including Dish TV and Sling TV. EchoStar said this move refocuses the company’s portfolio on wireless and satellite connectivity markets.  The deal brings together the two main satellite TV providers in North America, DirecTV and Dish TV, which both face declining subscriber numbers. According to an investor presentation,...

SES has signed a new broadcast deal in Germany. It has extended its partnership with RTL Deutschland which will see SES deliver a wide range of TV channels to audiences across Germany and Austria until the end of the decade. RTL Deutschland’s TV offering will also continue to be available on HD+, SES’s HD satellite...

Measat has signed a new broadcasting deal with one of the India’s largest media companies. Sun TV Network will have its 37 channels broadcast via the Measat-3D satellite. These channels broadcast in seven languages, will reach over 140 million households in India and extend to audiences in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Africa. Measat announced...

SpaceX successfully launched the Astra 1P broadcast satellite for SES on June 20, SES confirmed after the launch. The satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, will continue SES’s TV neighborhood over Europe at 19.2 degrees East.  SpaceX launched the satellite on a Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:35 p.m. on...

EchoStar companies Dish Network and Hughes Network Systems are launching a bundle that combines satellite TV and broadband internet. Geared toward customers in rural parts of the U.S., the companies said this service will provide better coverage and performance for customers.  Dish TV packages start at $85 per month and Hughesnet packages start at $60...

Intelsat has secured two new broadcasting deals in Latin America. It will manage broadcast distribution services for MVS Television in Mexico and Caracol Television in Colombia. Intelsat announced the two deals, April 15. Under the agreement with MVS Television, the company will send content to several of Intelsat’s Points of Presence (PoPs) where it enters...

Airbus has shipped the Eutelsat 36D Geostationary (GEO) communications satellite from Toulouse, France to Florida, on board the Airbus BelugaST plane. Its final stop is the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will be launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 later this month.  Eutelsat 36D is based on the Eurostar Neo satellite...

Es’hailSat has renewed a deal with one of the largest sports and entertainment broadcasters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region – beIN MEDIA GROUP (beIN). The Qatari satellite operator will provide satellite capacity, uplink, connectivity and operational support on Es’hail-2 satellite located at the 26 degrees East hotspot covering the MENA region....

Eutelsat has signed a new 4k broadcasting deal with one of France’s biggest broadcasters. Public broadcaster France Télévisions has signed a multi-year contract with Eutelsat which will see two 4K channels on both terrestrial and satellite networks. France 2 UHD, a full-time channel, and France 3 UHD, a part-time UHD channel dedicated to special events...