Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 04-07-2016] Eutelsat Americas has sold Alterna’TV, a Miami-based content distribution company, to Thema, a subsidiary of Canal+ Group for an undisclosed amount. As part of the transaction, Canal+ Group also established a long-term capacity agreement on the Eutelsat 113 West A and Eutelsat 117 West A satellites. Alterna’TV is a content distribution platform...

[Via Satellite 0407-2016] SES has entered long-term partnerships with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) in India and TV Entertainment Reality Network (TERN) in the Netherlands to launch new channels. With ZEEL, SES subsidiary SES Platform Services entered into an agreement to launch a new Free-to-Air (FTA) television channel in Germany in both SD and HD...

[Via Satellite 04-06-2016] European pay-TV operator M7 Group has reached a satellite capacity and distribution agreement with Lagardère Active to distribute Mezzo Live HD, a dedicated classical music, opera, jazz and dance channel in High Definition (HD). Following the agreement, M7 Platform Services will arrange for the secure satellite delivery of Mezzo Live HD to...

[Via Satellite 04-06-2016] HSN, a live content retailer, has signed an agreement to renew and migrate its North American distribution platform to an SES satellite at the center of the company’s North American orbital arc. Today, HSN uses SES satellite capacity to broadcast live to approximately 95 million households across the U.S. The company will...

[Via Satellite 04-04-2016] Pay-TV subscriptions around the world had their highest overall rise for two years, according to a quarterly research report from informitv. The research group’s “Multiscreen Index” tracked 100 pay-TV services that gained a total of 8.16 million subscribers in the last quarter of 2015, an increase of slightly more than 2 percent....

[Via Satellite 04-04-2016] Direct to Home (DTH) operator and media company Forever Group Myanmar has entered a long-term contract with Thaicom for five additional transponders. The company currently uses three Thaicom transponders. Forever Group intends to use the satellite capacity to further the development of digital content delivery services and High Definition (HD) television in...

[Via Satellite 04-01-2016] Measat Satellite Systems has reached an agreement with Television Entertainment Reality Network International (TERN International) to distribute the Insight UHD channel. The operator will use the global beam on Measat 3a to deliver the channel to pay-TV operators across Asia Pacific and Australia. The Measat 3a global beam also covers the Middle...

Not long ago, you could define “satellite” pay-TV operators, “cable” TV operators and “Internet Protocol Television” (IPTV) operators as distinct entities. Nowadays those classifications are much

[Via Satellite 03-31-2016] Eutelsat and France Télévisions have reached a new agreement for capacity on the Eutelsat 5 West A satellite, enabling France’s public broadcaster to upgrade all of France 3’s regional channels to HD on April 5. The 24 regional channels will be available for the 2 million homes receiving Fransat, Eutelsat’s free-to-view TV...

[Via Satellite 03-30-2016] Russian pay-TV operator Tricolor TV has increased its number of High Definition (HD) subscribers from 6.6 million to 7 million between now and January 1. The company reports that more than 59 percent of its subscriber base is connected to HD television. Currently, 100 percent of new connections to Tricolor TV belong...