Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 01-04-201] Nagra, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group, has unveiled intuiTV, a new “all-in-one” TV experience, at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, […]

[Via Satellite 12-30-2015] Rovi Corporation, a digital entertainment technology provider, has expanded its entertainment discovery patent license agreement with Shaw Communications, a major Canadian cable and satellite service provider serving […]

[Via Satellite 12-21-2015] TCC, a leading pay-TV services provider in Uruguay, is evolving its approach to the market as trends in video continue to transform. The company, which started as […]

[Via Satellite 12-18-2015] Mexican multimedia company Televisa has contracted capacity on SES’s AMC 9 satellite to broadcast content to millions of households across Mexico. The multiyear agreement secures three C-band […]

[Via Satellite 12-17-2015] Modern Times Group’s (MTG) pay-TV operator and satellite broadcaster Viasat has agreed to extend its partnership with SES for the transmission of its approximately 230 channels in […]

[Via Satellite 12-11-2015] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is in charge of distributing “Cara a Cara 2015,” the Spanish presidential debate between Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sanchez through Telefonica Servicios Audiovisuales. […]

[Via Satellite 12-09-2015] U.K.-based Arqiva has entered a multi-year commitment with Eutelsat Communications for a 15th transponder at the 28 degrees east video neighborhood to serve the country’s Direct-to-Home (DTH) […]

[Via Satellite 12-08-2015] Eutelsat Americas has received a multiyear contract from StarTV, the commercial platform of Stargroup, for capacity on Eutelsat 117 West A and Eutelsat 117 West B. Stargroup […]

[Via Satellite 11-30-2015] SkyVision Global Networks, in partnership with ABS, is launching two new video platforms on the ABS 3A satellite to enable Direct-to-Home (DTH) services across Sub-Saharan Africa, including […]

[Via Satellite 11-20-2015] Intelsat announced Nov. 19 it has moved the Horizons 2 satellite to a new orbital position at 85 degrees east to launch a new Free-to-Air (FTA) Direct-to-Home […]

[Via Satellite 11-17-2015] Eutelsat has sealed a three-year contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for Ku-band capacity on the Eutelsat 3B satellite. The capacity will be used to […]

[Via Satellite 11-16-2015] Yahlive, through a new partnership with Paris-based Sahli Media Group, has launched a bouquet of 43 channels for the Greater Arab Maghreb region. The Free-to-Air (FTA) channels […]

[Via Satellite 11-13-2015] A multi-transponder order from Grant Investrade Ltd (GIL) on Thaicom 7 has filled out all the remaining available capacity on the satellite, Thaicom announced Nov. 12. The […]

[Via Satellite 11-09-2015] As of October 2015 four satellite pay-TV operators broadcasting from the Arab World — Orbit Showtime Network (OSN), beIN Sports, Al Majd and MyHD — offered a […]

[Via Satellite 11-05-2015] Beninese private news channel Golfe TV Africa has selected Eutelsat Communications to support its transition to High Definition (HD) broadcasting. Golfe TV Africa has taken a three-year […]

[Via Satellite 11-02-2015] PT. Graha Pratama Sejahtera (GPS), a leading system integrator based in Indonesia, has launched a bouquet of 14 television channels on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees east. […]

[Via Satellite 10-29-2015] Telecommunications operator Entel Bolivia has deployed an integrated headend solution from Harmonic to power its Direct-Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service. Harmonic is supplying its Electra encoders for MPEG-4 […]

[Via Satellite 10-28-2015] The October/November issue of Via Satellite Magazine is out, and in it we take a look at ways satellite is being used in the energy sector, broadcasting […]

[Via Satellite 10-28-2015] Lifestyle content producer Scripps Networks Interactive has signed a strategic agreement with SES to expand and migrate its North American distribution platform to a pair of SES […]

[Via Satellite 10-26-2015] AT&T is already seeing the benefits of its merger with U.S. satellite pay-TV giant DirecTV. The telco completed the acquisition in July, after agreeing to certain four-year […]

[Via Satellite 10-26-2015] Yahlive has signed a one-transponder capacity deal with Adriatic Tours, owner of Alpha One RTV Network, and reached a collaborative agreement to broadcast channels to the Balkan […]

[Via Satellite 10-26-2015] Bollywood film and television network B4U has increased the number of channels broadcasting on AsiaSat 7 with the addition of B4U Movies Asia Pacific. B4U currently broadcasts […]

[Via Satellite 10-22-2015] AsiaSat has launched 4K-SAT, the operator’s first Ultra-HD television channel, at 122 degrees east on AsiaSat 4. This new Ultra-HD channel will be available Free-to-Air (FTA) across […]

[Via Satellite 10-13-2015] TV5Monde, a leading global French-language broadcaster, is watching developments in Ultra-HD but has no plans to implement such broadcasts until it meets its goals with High Definition […]

[Via Satellite 10-09-2015] Orion Express, one of the top satellite communications providers in Russia, has transferred all the Standard Definition (SD) channels for Russian broadcaster Viasat to its media platform […]

[Via Satellite 10-08-2015] AsiaSat and Rohde & Schwarz have partnered to advance next-generation Ultra-HD TV technologies by implementing a Free to Air (FTA) Ultra-HD channel on AsiaSat 4. Broadcasters and […]

[Via Satellite 10-07-2015] Eutelsat Communications’ new satellite, Eutelsat 8 West B, is online and actively broadcasting TV channels to more than 52 million homes in the Middle East and North […]

[Via Satellite 10-07-2015] Turkish satellite and cable operator Turksat has launched six channels from SPI International. The new channel lineup consists of the movie channels FilmBox and FilmBox Arthouse, the […]

[Via Satellite 10-06-2015] Grupo Etercom, a value-added solution integrator in Mexico, has selected International Datacasting Corporation’s (IDC) Titan video contribution solution to refresh its Satellite Newsgathering (SNG) networks. The company […]

[Via Satellite 09-30-2015] French language network TV5Monde has entered into a long-term service agreement with AsiaSat to broadcast the channels TV5Monde Asie HD and TV5Monde Style HD throughout the Asia-Pacific […]