Focus: Broadcasting

German media company High View signed a deal with SES to purchase additional satellite capacity on SES’s TV neighborhood at ASTRA 19.2 degrees East to add four free-to-air channels. SES said Thursday this is another multi-year contract with High View.  High View will expand its Deluxe Music brand by broadcasting new channels Deluxe Dance, Deluxe Flashback,...

Eutelsat Communications has decommissioned the Eutelsat 5 West A satellite after more than 20 years in operation. The operator re-orbited the satellite to more than 400 km above Geostationary Orbit (GEO), successfully depressurizing the propulsion system and turning off electrical equipment onboard.  The satellite operated until it was decommissioned, continuing to provide maritime connectivity even...

Latin America remains a region full of potential for satellite services. Brazil has long been a dynamic market, both for video and data services. Telecommunications company Embratel provides satellite services across the region, and it is a time of change for the company. Star One, the more familiar name of the operator, has now been...

Eutelsat stopped broadcasting certain Russian and Iranian channels to comply with French and European Union regulations, the operator announced Dec. 22.  French media regulator ARCOM recently asked Eutelsat to stop broadcasting three Russian channels because their coverage of the war in Ukraine involved “repeated incitement to hatred and violence and numerous shortcomings in honesty of...

Arianespace launched satellites for Europe and Intelsat in a triple-payload Ariane 5 mission on Tuesday. The mission, one of the last for the Ariane 5 rocket, launched the MTG-I1 meteorological satellite and two C-band satellites from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 3:30 p.m. ET. One satellite, MTG-I1 — Meteosat Third Generation Imager — is for...

Arabsat has signed a new capacity deal with Ninetnine that sees the content provider launch its live, linear entertainment TV channel Helwa TV on Arabsat. The two companies announced the deal, Dec. 5. Operated by Ninetnine and co-owned with BluTV, Helwa TV, which launched in March 2022, broadcasts premium Turkish series and North African TV...

The latest SES satellite, SES-21, is now in service following its launch in October. SES announced Thursday the satellite is now operational at 131 degrees West.  SES-21, built by Boeing, is a C-band satellite, part of SES’s work to clear C-band spectrum for 5G use. The satellite allows SES to transition existing services to the...

SiriusXM ordered two more satellites from Maxar Technologies, SXM-11 and -12, the companies announced Tuesday. Maxar is now developing four Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites for SiriusXM, including SXM-9 and -10 ordered in 2021.  SXM-11 and -12 will be twin high-powered digital audio radio satellites, built on Maxar’s 1300-class platform at the company’s manufacturing facilities in...

Intelsat’s newest C-band broadcast satellites, Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32, are in good health after SpaceX launched the pair in a Falcon 9 mission over the weekend. Manufacturer Maxar Technologies confirmed after the Saturday launch that the satellites are performing as expected.  SpaceX launched the satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space...

Intelsat has ordered Intelsat-45 from Swissto12, based on the HummingSat product line, which is smaller than typical satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).  This deal makes Intelsat the first commercial customer for the HummingSat for the Swiss startup.  The satellite is scheduled for launch in 2025 and will provide Ku-band fixed-satellite services for media and network...