Author: Mark Holmes

Despite initially losing the key soccer (Bundesliga) rights in Germany, pay-TV operator Premiere has bounced back in style, ending 2006 with a subscription base totalling just shy of 3,410,000 million....

While satellite radio has blazed a trail in the United States, it is still amidst its early days in Europe, although there have been one or two significant recent developments....

Nearly three decades of war have left Afghanistan’s communications infrastructure in ruins. The new government is determined to rebuild these links in order to improve the quality of life for...

The controlling interests in European satellite operator Eutelsat changed significantly during the first week of December, as a number of key shareholders announced plans to sell their stakes of the...

SES Astra‘s Entavio initiative has suffered a blow with the news that ProSiebenSat.1 will not bring its free-to-air channels to Entavio due to antitrust concerns raised by the German government....

The launch of BT’s Internet protocol (IP) TV service, BT Vision, brings another strong competitor for satellite operator BSkyB in the U.K. pay-TV market. BT has set a subscriber goal...

Jetix Europe, one of the key kids and youth entertainment providers to direct-to-home (DTH) platforms around the globe, has had a busy 2006 but is not expecting strong growth in...

Arqiva, which recently reached an agreement to acquire BT‘s satellite broadcast business for 25 million British pounds ($47.9 million), hopes the acquisition will provide a springboard to a stronger position...

While in most markets in western Europe – i.e., France, Italy and Spain – consolidation has taken place in recent years, among DTH operators in the Nordic markets, competition between...

While providing services for operators across all platforms, interactive TV software company Ensequence hopes to strengthen its role in the satellite pay-TV industry by helping operators deploy the latest advanced...