Focus: Broadcasting

Satellite operator Intelsat signed a multi-year and multi transponder agreement with ARTEAR to meet the media company’s entire content distribution and contribution needs in Latin America. ARTEAR is a part of Group CLARIN, the largest media business group in Argentina. Intelsat announced the deal, Oct. 19. ARTEAR will be utilizing Intelsat 34 (IS-34), Galaxy 13...

SES has made a significant new move in the broadcast arena. It has launched a new dedicated satellite distribution platform for sports and events content. SES announced the platform, Oct. 18. The new platform will be able to successfully aggregate and deliver sports and live events to screens across Europe and the MENA region on...

Eutelsat has seen incidents of jamming on two of its satellites, with the signals originating in Iran. The operator revealed details of the jamming Oct. 7. Eutelsat said the interference, which has been going on since Sept. 26, harmfully affects the transmission of several digital TV and radio channels broadcasting in Persian from outside of...

AsiaSat has signed a new broadcast capacity contract with a leading French broadcaster. The company announced TV5Monde, will use AsiaSat 5 to distribute TV5Monde Pacifique HD to serve audiences in regions of North East Asia and Oceania. This is a further addition to TV5Monde’s TV bouquet on AsiaSat satellites. TV5Monde has rapidly expanded its audience...

SES has signed a new video deal in the Indonesian market, one of Asia’s largest broadcast markets. The operator announced Sept. 21 that Indonesian entertainment network operator Mola will use SES’s 360 Unified Media Platform to bolster its over-the-top (OTT) content services across Indonesia and the wider Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Mola will leverage the web-based...

PARIS — Regional operators from around the world are examining their place in the new world order of satellite, particularly the importance of data and how Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations may impact their businesses. Arabsat, which currently operates 10 Geostationary (GEO) satellites and has another three in the pipeline, is looking at how its business...

Intelsat engineers have shut down the Galaxy 15 payload after losing command of the satellite in August. An Intelsat spokesperson told Via Satellite that Galaxy 15 is no longer transmitting signals back to Earth. This greatly reduces the risk of interfering with operators and programming services as the spacecraft drifts out of its orbital position,...

Two SES C-band satellites — SES-20 and SES-21 — have been delivered and mated ahead of their upcoming launch.  The Boeing-built satellites were delivered to Cape Canaveral last week. The satellites are set for launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket in September. ULA supplier Astrotech mated the satellites after they were delivered.  SES ordered...

Intelsat signed a contract with Brazilian pay-TV group Box Brazil to distribute six channels on Intelsat 14, located at 45 degrees West. This follows after Intelsat introduced an antenna seeding installation program to increase access to cable headends across Brazil.  Intelsat said the initiative has brought programmers like Box Brazil to IS-14 due to the...

Intelsat has lost the ability to command its Galaxy 15 satellite after an anomaly caused by a space weather event. The anomaly caused the loss of commanding links, which is the signal used to fly the satellite and to receive telemetry data, an Intelsat spokeswoman told Via Satelite. “Intelsat, working with the satellite manufacturer, has...