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IFA & IBC Offer Different Views on the TV Industry

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this week’s editorial in the press room of IBC – the overload from IFA caused our production of the regular weekly issue to slip so, frustratingly, I have been head down over …

Arabsat Announce Free-to-Air DVB Service for MENA and Europe

by Andrew Fenn

Arabsat has announced the launch of its free-to-air DVB-S2 broadcasting platform. The new service exclusively provides a multitude of international HD channels such as BBC World News, TV5 Monde, France 24, TRT World and …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 26

SES Carrying 7610 Channels and 22 in UHD

by Alan Spencer

SES announced at its Investor Day in London, last month, that it is now carrying 7610 TV channels on its satellites, which is a rise of 4% compared to the same time last year. …

ATSC 3.0 Conference Optimistic On Next Generation Television

by Aldo Cugnini

With the completion of the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard now imminent, technologists, business executives, and industry experts gathered last week in Washington, DC for the “NextGen TV Conference: Powered by ATSC 3.0.” …

ATSC Round Up

by Aldo Cugnini

Imagine Partners with Sinclair Broadcast to Deliver Content Using ATSC 3.0 Imagine Communications unveiled at the 2017 NAB Show its integrated suite of products positioned to unleash the full power of the emerging ATSC …

Sinclair Presents Its Vision of the Future of Broadcasting

by Aldo Cugnini

Speaking to a packed house at the NAB BEIT, Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) executive Louis Libin described the main elements and continuation of a vision for terrestrial broadcasting in the United States that builds …

Western Europe to Exceed 100 million pay-TV Subscribers in June

by Alan Spencer

Western Europe still has over 100 million pay-TV subscribers, and this number will rise until 2022 despite the rise in OTT services. This is according to the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from …

Two US Pay-TV Providers Launch Linear Ultra HD Services

by Alan Spencer

Two multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) have launched the first commercial linear Ultra HD services to cable and IPTV subscriber homes in the US. The services were launched using SES’s satellite-delivered, pre-packaged, Ultra HD …

Sky to Show Test Match Cricket in 4K UHD

by Alan Spencer

Sky Q customers in the UK and Ireland, that have Sky Sports and Sky’s Q box, will be able to watch England’s four cricket test (international) matches in Ultra HD this summer. The test …

Orion Almost Reaches 3 Million Subscribers

by Alan Spencer

Orion, the Russian DTH platform operator, has ended the first quarter of this year with 2,978,500 subscribers, which is a 1% rise compared to the previous quarter. Revenues were $13.5 million, which is up …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Russia| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 15

39 Flex Supports UltraHD & HDR

by Bob Raikes

The Mobile TV Group in the US will show its 39 Flex 4K broadcast truck at NAB. The truck has already been used for covering significant events in UHD-4K across the US and it …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Outside Broadcast| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Only 3% of MENA TV Channels are HD

by Alan Spencer

A report from Noorsat on TV viewing in MENA, indicates that although 80% of viewers in the region are already equipped to receive HD TV, the region is lagging behind the rest of the …