Paris - Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) regrets the loss of Spacecom’s AMOS-6 satellite following the launch pad explosion of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral. In collaboration with Facebook, Eutelsat had contracted a multi-year agreement to lease the satellite’s Ka-band payload covering Sub-Saharan Africa, with a view to launching broadband services from early 2017. Eutelsat remains committed to growing broadband in Africa and will explore other options to serve the … [Read more...] about Eutelsat on the loss of Spacecom’s AMOS-6
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Thailand in View
Bangkok – CASBAA returns to Thailand to host its third Thailand in View, an in depth forum examining the multichannel TV industry in the country, on 6 September at Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld. In conjunction with the forum, CASBAA will also release a member exclusive Thailand in View 2016 market research report with the most up-to-date information on Thailand’s exciting pay-TV market and containing important TV industry data and regulatory information. Guests … [Read more...] about Thailand in View
Gomorrah hits U.S. screens
Munich - The gritty mafia series Gomorrah has become a foreign-language hit on Sundance Channel U.S. On its debut, the Sky Italia drama, the inside story of the fierce Neapolitan crime organisation Camorra, doubled the audience figures of other foreign-language series on the channel. The series, sold by Beta Film to more than 130 territories, has gained record ratings all over the world and is praised by international media as “unique and compelling” (The Hollywood Reporter) and “one of finest … [Read more...] about Gomorrah hits U.S. screens
Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
Tell us about your exclusive channel for Asia. We are now available in Indonesia, and within the next 90 days, we’ll be launching in other territories around the region. Rialto Channel, a premium pay-TV channel in New Zealand has been in operation for 17 years on the Sky platform. The other genre including British films, foreign films, documentaries and more. As our factual genre has been very popular, we realise there is a niche for this content in Asia. That’s how Pulse Television was … [Read more...] about Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
The perfect mix of entertainment
What new solution(s) is NAGRA rolling out? intuiTV is an all-in-one solution that integrates almost all our products at NAGRA from the backend technology. It offers a hybrid platform, multi-screen capability, software in the set-top box (OpenTV technology), NAGRA security, EPG capability and more. We aggregated a whole list of meta data on the backend that we bring to the box. It was developed by SmarDTV, a sister company of NAGRA within the Kudelski Group. They’re our providers of set-top … [Read more...] about The perfect mix of entertainment
Will sports rights bubble burst?
Over the past decade, television broadcasters have bet that DVR-proof live sports will remain highly profitable, and shelled out tens of billions of dollars to acquire broadcast rights to the NFL, NBA, MLB, EPL, Olympics, World Cup, college football and basketball, and all other sports imaginable. Fox, CBS, and NBC all created sports-only cable channels, and the Longhorn Network, SEC Network, Big 10 Network, and Pac-12 Network were all launched. To a large degree, paying rights fees is an … [Read more...] about Will sports rights bubble burst?