Focus: Broadcasting

SES announced that the SES 10 satellite is now fully operational at 67 degrees west and will be serving markets in the Latin America region. SES 10 launched on March 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida onboard a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite is the first Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) commercial...

EchoStar has announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, reporting consolidated revenues of $433 million. The company earned revenues of $431 million in the same period last year. However, Echostar also saw a slide in net income from continuing operations, reporting a total of $30.7 million versus $35.3 million in the same...

Ethiopia’s Information Network Security Agency (INSA) has inked a multi-year contract with Eutelsat Communications for capacity at its 7/8 degrees west neighborhood, which serves satellite TV in the Middle East and North Africa. INSA will use the capacity for its new TV platform, Ethiosat, which just launched. Ethiopia’s national satellite TV landscape currently features more...

Spacecom, the operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced that Nepal’s Dish Media Network has furthered its long-term association with the Amos 4 satellite. Located at the 65 degrees east prime orbital position, Amos 4 provides Dish Media Network with satellite capacity enabling the Direct-to-Home (DTH) provider to expand its Standard Definition (SD) and High...

After a turbulent recent past, Myanmar is emerging as an exciting and dynamic economy. Decades of military rule has left the country with run-down general infrastructure and a population that has gone through years of oppression, hungry for knowledge of the outside world. Today, Myanmar is demanding connectivity and information — and satellite is playing...

Measat Satellite Systems announced that Encompass Digital Media is expanding its presence on Measat’s 91.5 degrees east video neighborhood. The 91.5 degrees east hot slot is home to the Measat 3, Measat 3a and Measat 3b satellites. According to Measat, eight more channels are now available from 91.5 degrees east: Hits HD, KIX360 SD, Zee...

Two Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs) have officially launched the first ever commercial Ultra-HD services to cable and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) subscriber homes in North America. Marquette-Adams of Oxford, Wisconsin, and Highlands Cable Group of Highlands, North Carolina, will begin to introduce Ultra-HD content to their customers using SES’ satellite-delivered Ultra-HD platform. Both companies...

Eutelsat Communications is carrying out an antenna seeding program to allow broadcasters across the Americas to enhance their reach and cable operators to enrich their offer via Eutelsat’s video neighborhoods at 65 degrees west and 113/117 degrees west. According to Eutelsat, the program is boosting opportunities for broadcasters to distribute their content and will further...

Telairity announced that Bahrain-based satellite service provider Noorsat has deployed multiple Telairity BE8200 and BE8740 multi-channel High Definition (HD) encoders to meet their rapidly growing demand for HD channels. Over the past years, as demand shifted from Standard Definition (SD) to HD channels, Noorsat reconfigured Telairity’s BE9400 multichannel SD systems into BE8200 HD multichannel systems at...

Intelsat announced that it signed a multi-year agreement expanding its global relationship and leveraging IntelsatOne terrestrial fiber and teleport services to distribute five High Definition (HD) channels for China Central Television (CCTV). Under the agreement, CCTV, the national broadcaster of the People’s Republic of China, expands its footprint in the Americas from its current bouquet...