Advanced Television

DTH/Satellite

SES, Telekom Srbija extend deal

SES has extended its transmission contract with Telekom Srbija for another four years for satellite services from SES’s Astra 3C satellite at 23.5 degrees East. SES says: “This renewal reinforces a successful collaboration that began in 2011 with a first capacity agreement and expanded in 2018 with the launch of Telekom Srbija’s DTH platform, M:Sat […]

November 4, 2024By Chris Forrester

M7 Group, Antenna expand CEE distribution

Luxembourg-based M7 Group, a European pay-TV provider owned by Canal+ Group, has concluded a multi-year agreement with Antenna Entertainment for the satellite launch of dedicated Czech versions of AXN Black and AXN White via Astra 23.5 East and the M7-owned Skylink TV platform. Antenna Entertainment is part of Antenna Group, a privately owned international media […]

October 31, 2024

SES extends Sky deal

SES has extended its long-standing partnership with Sky through a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighbourhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East. The previous contract, signed in May 2022, was worth €84 million, but terms for this latest agreement were not revealed. SES’s satellites at the 28.2/28.5 degrees East orbital […]

October 10, 2024By Chris Forrester

Nagravision, Samsung, DishTV India collaborate

Nagravision, the media and entertainment technology division of the Kudelski Group, is expanding its collaboration with DishTV India, a content distribution company with presence in DTH and OTT platforms, to launch a Direct-to-TV service using TVKey Cloud by Nagravision and Samsung.  This collaboration sees DishTV becomes the first DTH operator in India to offer secure […]

October 7, 2024

Study: Satisfaction highest for live TV streamers in US

Live TV streamers in the US are more satisfied than cable and satellite customers, according to the JD Power 2024 US Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. Overall satisfaction for live TV streamers is 625 (on a 1,000-point scale) compared with 524 among cable and satellite customers. The biggest gap in satisfaction between live TV streaming […]

September 27, 2024

Germany: NHK World-Japan expands distribution via HD+

NHK World-Japan, the English-language international service of Japan’s public media organisation NHK, is expanding its distribution in Germany in collaboration with HD+. The German TV platform operator has integrated the channel into its streaming package HD+ IP as well as its multiscreen service HD+ MultiScreen, enabling reception on smartphones, tablets and further TV sets in […]

September 19, 2024

Report: DirecTV, DISH merger talks

DirectTV, owned by telco giant AT&T and Charlie Ergen’s DISH Network are reportedly in “early stage” talks to merge their pay-TV businesses. The report from Bloomberg says a successful merger would create the largest pay-TV platform in North America with around 16 million subscribers. There have been talks about a merger between the two players […]

September 16, 2024By Chris Forrester

ITV ending SD services on satellite

ITV has completed its upgrade to all-HD on satellite for ITV1, bringing enhanced picture quality to all satellite viewers. From October 2024, households with an SD-only satellite set-top box will need to upgrade to a HD satellite receiver to continue to watch ITV1. ITV1 and ITV2 nationally will no longer be available in SD on […]

September 16, 2024

Al Jazeera, Saba World sign Eutelsat deals

Eutelsat Group has announced that Al Jazeera Media Network has reaffirmed its commitment to Eutelsat for broadcast services across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. This new multi-year, multi-satellite agreement will assure broadcast continuity of Al Jazeera’s bouquet of SD and HD news and events channels at three of Eutelsat’s video neighbourhoods: 7/8°West, for […]

September 16, 2024

Fransat unveils TV Stick

Fransat, the Eutelsat Group subsidiary operating a DTH platform of DTT channels for the French market, has showcased at IBC a miniature set-top box designed to further simplify satellite DTT DTH reception. The Fransat TV Stick is a conditional access module (CAM) that uses the new CI Plus 2.0 standard to integrate the decrypting and […]

September 13, 2024Nick Snow @ IBC