Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 07-07-2016] StarTimes, one of the fastest-growing operators of digital TV networks in Africa, has renewed capacity contracts on two Eutelsat satellites as well as agreements for uplinking services...

[Via Satellite 07-06-2016] Globecast, a major broadcast and media company, is making media management a much larger portion of its business and anticipates that satellite, while still important, will have...

[Via Satellite 07-06-2016] SES has completed the merger of RR Media with its subsidiary, SES Platform Services to form MX1. The combined global media services company leverages the capabilities and...

[Via Satellite 07-06-2016] The International Telecommunications Union’s Radiocommunications Sector (ITU-R) has announced a new standard for High Dynamic Range (HDR). The recommendation, created in collaboration with experts from the television...

[Via Satellite 07-06-2016] Measat has launched South East Asia’s first dedicated 24/7 HD electronic sports “eSports” channel eGG, for pay-TV operators from its Measat 3a satellite at 91.5 degrees east....

[Via Satellite 07-05-2016] Eutelsat and Italy’s national public broadcaster Rai are broadcasting seven of the Euro2016 soccer games in Ultra-HD. Together the companies delivered the first quarter final game, filmed...

[Via Satellite 06-30-2016] NSSLGlobal has recently worked with the BBC to enable a series of live “bonded HDR” (High Data Rate) satellite television broadcasts from on board M.V. Aquarius, a...

[Via Satellite 06-29-2016] Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS) is scaling up infrastructure at its Rugby Teleport to prepare for an expansion of Ka-band and broadcast services. The U.K.-based independent teleport operator...

[Via Satellite 06-29-2016] Japan International Broadcasting (JIB), has agreed to use AsiaSat’s AsiaSat 7 satellite to broadcast NHK World TV HD, an English language news and lifestyle TV network, and...

[Via Satellite 06-15-2016] Gustavo Silbert, president of Brazillian satellite operator Embratel Star One, says the company is looking to the launch of its Star One D1 satellite to expand capacity...