Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 09-23-2016] Hispasat has revealed the six award winners of the company’s second 4K International Festival. The competition evaluated short films shot and post-produced in 4K format from more than 100 filmmakers from 14 different countries. A jury comprised of Hispasat’s Business Director Ignacio Sanchis, Film Director Fernando Colomo, Producer Adrian Guerra and several...

[Via Satellite 09-22-2016] Space Systems Loral (SSL) has certified the EchoStar 21 satellite ready to ship ahead of a fourth quarter 2016 launch. The communications satellite — to be located at 10.25 degrees east — was intended for launch in April 2016, but was placed in storage after the delay of its May 2016 Proton...

[Via Satellite 09-22-2016] XTreme Video, a company that creates television programs around extreme sports and activities, has contracted with AsiaSat to broadcast content on the 4K-Sat channel on AsiaSat 4. XTreme Video produces 4K content for extreme sports fans worldwide, and with AsiaSat, will broadcast stunning extreme and outdoor content, such as the mountain biking...

[Via Satellite 09-19-2016] SES has formed a four-day “Elevate” training program together with Cable Channels Nigeria Ltd. (CCNL) that will teach more than 50 people how to install a satellite television dish. Licensed by the Nigeria National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), CCNL is the certified content aggregator and platform owner for Free-to-Air (FTA) Digital Terrestrial Television...

[Via Satellite 09-15-2016] TricolorTV, a Russian pay-TV platform with 12 million subscribers, has officially launched its new broadband service using the high throughput Ka-band capacity on the Eutelsat 36C satellite commercialized by Eutelsat Communications. The new service offers consumer and professional subscribers Internet access with speeds of up to 40 Mbps downstream and 12 Mbps...

[Via Satellite 09-14-2016] Eutelsat Communications is taking a minority stake in V-Nova, a London-based expert in advanced video compression technology. Eutelsat and V-Nova also plan to enter into a commercial partnership focused on satellite video transmission markets, where Eutelsat will exclusively distribute V-Nova’s Perseus-powered compression solutions in jointly defined offers for pre-agreed markets. Perseus delivers...

[Via Satellite 09-14-2016] MX1, a global media services company newly formed from the merger of RR Media and SES Platform Services (SPS), has presented its new end-to-end media service platform, MX1 360. MX1, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, works with media businesses to amplify the value of media content for a global audience. MX1...

[Via Satellite 09-12-2016] Eutelsat Communications announced the launch from the Hot Bird video neighborhood of an Ultra-HD channel showing High Dynamic Range (HDR) content using Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) technology, the new HDR standard developed by the BBC and NHK. Eutelsat has teamed up with 4EVER-2, the French collaborative project on Ultra-HD, Ateme and Samsung to...

[Via Satellite 09-12-2016] Arqiva has extended its relationship with Intelsat to distribute premium sports content to viewers in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region via multiple Intelsat satellites. Under a multi-year agreement, Arqiva is using services on Intelsat 34 and Intelsat 20 to broadcast content to millions of sports fans located in these regions....

[Via Satellite 09-12-2016] France 24 has selected AsiaSat 5 for the recent launch of its very first HD service in the world. Broadcasting since Sept. 1 this new HD service transmits free-to-air in English and marks a major milestone for the expanded partnership between France 24 and AsiaSat. France 24 and AsiaSat have been partners...