Focus: Broadcasting

Eutelsat has inked a multi-year contract with Orange Slovensko to extend its pay-TV offering across Slovakia via the Eutelsat 16A. Orange Slovensko will use the new capacity to reach households not […]

SES subsidiary MX1 is bundling satellite and LTE technology to offer a broadcast solution that aims to distribute HD and Ultra HD video and social media content to mobile smartphone […]

Mexican multimedia company Grupo Televisa extended their contract with Intelsat to utilize high-throughput (HTS) Ku-band beams on Intelsat 35e for European distribution needs. The new multi-year agreement also allows Grupo Televisa […]

Arris International revealed that the Arris DSR-7412 transcoder, and DSR-4470 receiver decoder has been selected by HBO Latin America for its content distribution network. The Arris DSR-7412 and DSR-4470 will significantly […]

Eutelsat Communications is launching Eutelsat Cirrus, a hybrid satellite Over-the-Top (OTT) delivery solution, enabling broadcasters to offer a flexible, seamless content experience across multiple screens. Eutelsat Cirrus enables operators to integrate […]

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions providing video transport and mobile internet connectivity, is introducing its most powerful version of the EnGo mobile transmitter at the IBC Show in September. […]

“I don’t see a great prognosis for the satellite industry. The operators may have a different perspective, but the demand for consumer services via satellite has been going down, both […]

Australian pay-TV company Foxtel announced this past week that it is planning to launch a dedicated Ultra High Definition (HD) 4K 444 channel in October, that will be delivered over […]

Next month, along with many others, I will be heading to the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam. Over recent years the massive shifts in the broadcast industry have been […]

ViaLite Communications appointed two new distributors in the latest expansion of the company’s reseller network. Both distributors are located in Hong Kong. Datacom System International will focus on system integrators for […]

Net Insight, a provider in streaming, media transport, and resource scheduling, revealed that MTI Teleport has built a media network for Sky Austria based on the new terabit capacity router […]

Dejero, a cloud-managed solutions company providing video transport and internet connectivity, has partnered with FileCatalyst, a provider of accelerated file transfer solutions, to enable broadcasters to move large data quickly, […]

Taiwan’s Video-On-Demand (VOD) industry associations today met with government officials at a roundtable event to share and promote best practices that foster growth while safeguarding consumer interests through self-regulation and […]

Hughes reported a significant increase in its revenues for the first six months of its 2018 fiscal year, providing its parent company EchoStar with enough momentum to surprise analysts with […]

C-SPAN, the Washington D.C. based suite of public affairs networks, has signed a new, long-term contract for C-band satellite services on Intelsat’s Galaxy 14 satellite, Intelsat announced today. Intelsat will […]

SpaceX has successfully launched a satellite for one of Asia’s biggest telcos. The company confirmed early this morning that its Falcon 9 had successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex […]

Satellite pay-TV continues to be a tough business for Dish Network in the United States, as the operator continues to see its subscribers migrate to a number of Over-the-Top (OTT) […]

Eutelsat issued its full year results today, which saw falls in both overall profit and revenue. Its revenue for the 12 months until the end of June reached 1.407 billion […]

Broadcast technology company IMT Vislink has entered into a reseller partnership with Broadcast Technical Services (BTS). IMT Vislink and BTS will collaborate on the sale, integration, service, and support of […]

Ericsson has rebranded its media solutions business in a major strategic move, the company announced July 10.  The new busines, MediaKind, will be the new identity for Ericsson’s Media Solutions […]

SES selected Rohde & Schwarz’s R&S PKU amplifier for uplink signal transmission during its first ever 8K television broadcast over satellite, the companies announced July 5. The demo broadcast took […]

Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) will use its AsiaSat 7 satellite to deliver “Public News,” a new HD news channel from Sports Star International of Pakistan, across the Asia-Pacific region, the […]

Speedcast has introduced its new content distribution platform, the Speedcast Media Network. Through a hybrid network, the Speedcast Media Network allows broadcasters to distribute content anywhere, at any time and […]

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s (CASBAA) Satellite Industry Forum today inSingapore started with a bang with Intelsat being slayed by a number of operators for its moves […]

Measat has teamed up with Novelsat and V-Nova to showcase next generation compression technology for Ultra High Definition (Ulra-HD) primary distribution over satellite at the CommunicAsia event, from June 26 […]

Verimatrix customer DishHome has extended its investment to support next-generation Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) cardless security, powered by the Video Content Authority System (VCAS) Ultra platform. DishHome is Nepal’s largest […]

M7 Group has deployed Harmonic’s Ultra-HD video processing solution for live video distribution of the FIFA 2018 World Cup, the world’s largest soccer competition which began on June 14 and […]

NAGRA and MTM have disclosed the findings of the 2018 Pay-TV Innovation Forum, a research program that brings together leading pay-TV and TV network executives to explore the challenges and […]

Dish is to integrate Netflix into its Evolve television solution for hotels in the coming months. Guests staying in hotels featuring Evolve will be able to access their personal Netflix […]

Intelsat is partnering with Latin American broadcaster Globo to demonstrate live 8K Ultra-HD video transmissions in Brazil for the 2018 World Cup. Beginning today and running through July 15, content […]