Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] Intelsat announced that Encompass Digital Media, a technology services company delivering end-to-end video solutions to broadcast and media companies, has renewed and expanded its contract using Intelsat’s Galaxy fleet and video neighborhoods to deliver Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) content to 64 million households across North America. Under the multi-year...

[Via Satellite 04-19-2016] The satcom division of Communications & Power Industries (CPI) has received a contract valued at more than $1 million from a major European integrator and systems provider to support an international Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast services provider. According to CPI, its klystron-based amplifiers were the main reason for the contract.

[Via Satellite 04-18-2016] Spacecom, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, and Encompass Digital Media, announced a new joint European TV distribution platform. The joint service will be distributed throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region over the Amos 6 satellite’s Ku Pan-European beam from its 4 degrees west orbital position. Encompass and Spacecom’s...

[Via Satellite 04-18-2016] Ateme announced that FranSat, Eutelsat’s satellite TV bouquet in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (Ultra-HD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel. The show was available in France, as well as the rest of Europe, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East through the satellite Hot Bird....

[Via Satellite 04-15-2016] BBC World News, a leading global news TV channel, has renewed and expanded its contract with Intelsat to use multiple video neighborhoods and the IntelsatOne terrestrial network for the distribution of Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) content across several continents. Under the multi-year agreement, BBC World News will be delivered...

[Via Satellite 04-15-2016] Spanish telecommunications satellite operator Hispasat, in collaboration with Cellnex Telecom, has expanded the number of Atresmedia television channels it currently distributes across the Americas through its Hispasat 30W-5 satellite. In addition to the channel Antena 3 Internacional, which Hispasat has broadcast since 2002 in SD, the operator will now broadcast the channels...

[Via Satellite 04-13-2016] Rai, Italy’s national public broadcaster, and Eutelsat have reached an agreement to broadcast seven matches of the Euro 2016 championship in Ultra-HD. Eutelsat will distribute the live broadcasts to Italian TV homes receiving Tivùsat, the free-to-view platform distributed via the operator’s Hot Bird video neighborhood. The initiative with Eutelsat marks Rai’s most...

[Via Satellite 04-13-2016] Israel-based RR Media is opening a new regional Latin America-focused media center based in Miami, Fla. The center will serve content to millions of Hispanic and Portuguese viewers across Latin America, as well as audiences in the U.S. and Canada. According to RR Media, the new center’s production facility has more than 95,000...

[Via Satellite 04-13-2016] Encompass Digital Media has released a new cloud-edge playout platform called ChannelReady, designed to enable secure, cost-effective channel playout that accelerates time to market, streamlines operating costs and maximizes revenue. ChannelReady offers clients secure access to their channel data from anywhere in the world. The system uses business intelligence rules that simplify...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2016] Communications & Power Industries’ (CPI) Satcom Division received a contract of more than $700,000 from a major European integrator and systems provider for a combination of CPI Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) and Klystron Power Amplifiers (KPAs). The customer intends to use the amplifiers in support of transcontinental broadcasting and data transfer...