Focus: Broadcasting

Walesi, the Fijian government’s digital television infrastructure management company, has signed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat Communications that will expand Free-to-Air (FTA) television throughout Fiji. The agreement covers C-band capacity...

Intelsat confirmed a multi-year satellite services agreement on Intelsat 19 with TV Plus, a Direct-to-Home (DTH) television provider servicing communities in Australia. Under the renewal agreement, TV Plus will use...

Brazilian regional television broadcaster TV Catarina is the latest television programmer to join Intelsat 14, Intelsat’s new video neighborhood covering the Latin America region. Under the multi-year agreement, TV Catarina...

At SatComRus 2017 in Moscow, the underlying theme was how Russian space companies could build for a more prosperous future. However, SpaceX was mentioned a number of times as both an inspiration, and an example of a space company setting a new agenda...

Eutelsat Communications has appointed Gerry O’Sullivan as executive vice president for global TV and video. In his new role, O’Sullivan will drive the product development strategy that ensures that Eutelsat...

Russian TV operator Tricolor TV is taking a step to expand its audience with a new service called Territoria Tricolor, launched in partnership with Eutelsat Communications. According to Tricolor TV,...

Dejero announced the addition of two new products to support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) (H.265) encoding and decoding. According to Dejero, its PathWay and WayPoint products enable the use...

In this exclusive interview, Via Satellite caught up with Choi to find out his views of recent events, what happens next, and what the future holds for ABS...

It wasn’t that long ago where many felt 3D TV could give the industry a significant boost. In this interview with 3-Net CEO Tom Cosgrove we discussed the future of 3D television. 3-Net, a joint venture of Discovery Communications, Sony and IMAX Corporation, was optimistic at the time. However, the future for 3D TV would prove to be quite short-lived.

QVC is launching its Ultra-High Definition (HD) channel in Germany, the seventh channel in Ultra-HD in the country, via SES’ orbital slot at 19.2 degrees east. Under the 10-year agreement...