Author: Mark Holmes

[Satellite News 04-28-09] French TV platform BIS could look to offer more services via satellite in the next year, Gregg Bywalski, marketing and development director at BIS’ managing company, AB...

The Middle East is a market in desperate need of more satellite capacity. It seems as fast as the satellites are going up, the capacity is being snapped up by...

[Satellite News 04-24-09] Satellite industry analysts praised the strength and potential of the broadband sector in new research reports. According to NSR senior analyst Patrick French and IDATE satellite analyst...

Mediascape has launched a satellite pay-TV platform, Cignal Digital TV, in the Philippines, targeting the 2 million households not served by cable.     “We are trying to hit 40,000 to...

[Satellite News 04-22-09] The link-up between Yahsat and SES Astra to create a company to target DTH markets in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asia, announced by...

The link-up between Yahsat and SES Astra to create a company to target DTH markets in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asia, announced by the companies April...

Like a number of DTH operators, New Zealand-based Sky Televisions’s multi-platform strategy is in full swing. At the end of 2009, the company announced a deal to launch services to...

DirecTV already has seen better than expected take-up of its video-on-demand (VOD) services launched in spring 2008, DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual told Via Satellite.      The U.S. satellite pay-TV operator,...

[Satellite News 04-16-09] Sky Television New Zealand is seeing strong demand for its recently launched high-definiton (HD) services that the uptake of the service has been the fastest in the...

TP Group, the largest telecom in Poland, is one of an increasing number of operators complementing its IPTV offering with satellite service. The launch of an IP-satellite service is considered...