Focus: Broadcasting

AT&T is considering selling satellite TV business DirecTV, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Potential bidders include Apollo Global Management Inc. and Platinum Equity, the Journal reported.  AT&T bought...

An effort by a handful of small satellite operators to prevent their relocation from the lower 200 MHz of the C-band spectrum has been denied by the FCC in a...

Australian telco Optus made a major announcement last month when it confirmed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for a OneSat software-defined satellite. Optus 11 will be deployed for Australia and...

The whole world has been completely disrupted by COVID-19 in the past six months, and unfortunately, the pandemic does not seem to be ending anytime soon. For some countries and...

Spacecom and Novelsat report they have demonstrated end-to-end video delivery over AMOS-17 High Throughput Satellite (HTS), from network core to network edge, serving user devices over a wireless network. They...

  “It’s completely insane to give up on video.”    A bold statement from Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer on the satellite Direct-to-Home (DTH) video market, which he calls the bread...

Intelsat has been selected to continue distributing content for ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and across the Asia Pacific region, the operator announced Aug. 11.  In...

1Sat Telecomunicaçoes on Monday launched BluTv, a new Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast platform serving the Brazilian market. BluTv will use Eutelsat Communications‘ EUTELSAT 65 West A satellite, which is a tri-band...

Viasat is the latest to join a long list of satellite operators reporting quarterly losses that weren’t nearly as bad as analysts expected. Again, COVID-19 is the culprit, taking a...

DISH Network‘s second quarter 2020 (2Q) financial report produced mixed results — an increase in net profit, offset by subscriber losses, service disruptions in hospitality and airline markets, and a...