Oct 12 2017
Dual-mission satellite will enable SES to accelerate delivery of HD and UHD channels using C-band capacity across the US, while Ku-band payload will serve EchoStar’s enterprise, media and broadcast needs Luxembourg/ Cape Canaveral, 12 October 2017 – SES announced today that the EchoStar 105/ SES-11 satellite was successfully launched into space on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 […]
Oct 10 2017
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out more detail about what it intends to examine in its investigation into the proposed takeover of Sky Plc by 21st Century Fox. On 20 September, Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport referred Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to the […]
Oct 9 2017
Sky Q is continuing the development of its premium TV platform by adding even more features in late 2017. The latest addition is voice control, which is an extension to the system’s existing voice search capabilities. From 5 October, Sky is rolling out the ability to navigate directly to channels, play back recorded content and […]
Oct 4 2017
Sky will drop RTÉ from its platform if the Irish Government does not continue to oblige the public service broadcaster to offer its channels to pay-TV companies for free. Sky, which is 39 per cent-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, told the Oireachtas communications committee on Tuesday that there “could only be losers” were […]
Oct 2 2017
The BBC World Service is now available on DAB digital radio in Denmark following a national switch to DAB+. Overnight from 30th September to 1st October 2017, the Danish DAB network was switched to the newer DAB+ standard, providing room for new services to launch, including the BBC World Service, which now occupies a 40kbps […]
Oct 1 2017
BBC World News has ceased broadcasting in standard definition on Astra 19.2°E. The BBC has decided to end its dual transmission of both standard and high definition versions of BBC World News via the Astra 1 satellite group. The HD version of the channel, launched in Europe in April 2015, now remains the default way […]
Sep 29 2017
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, September 29, 2017 – International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 9 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the 3rd commercial mission of the year […]
Sep 27 2017
Watch the live webcast at 2:30 PM ET at http://asiasat9.imgondemand.com/ General mission information and launch status updates are available at the website (ilslaunch.com), twitter (#ILSLaunch) and Facebook (@ilslaunch). Payload: AsiaSat 9 communications satellite SSL 1300 Separated spacecraft mass: Approx. 6,140 kg (13,536 lbs) Launch Vehicle: Proton Breeze M 705,000 kg (1,554,000 lbs), including payload 58.2 […]
Sep 27 2017
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, today announced that it has finalised and published its IPTV Specification. This specification builds on HbbTV 2. The new specification has been published by ETSI as TS 103 555 […]
Sep 27 2017
Today, Amazon announced the all-new Fire TV featuring 4K Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range (HDR), and Alexa Voice Remote. Forty percent more powerful than Fire TV Stick, the next generation of Amazon Fire TV works seamlessly with 4K Ultra HD or HDR compatible TVs giving you true-to-life picture quality and sound with vivid colors, 60 […]
Sep 26 2017
Luxembourg, 26 September 2017 – The emergency.lu Rapid Response Kit has been deployed by the Government of Luxembourg to provide vital satellite-enabled connectivity to the coordination center in Dominica, following the devastation brought by the Category 5 Hurricane Maria, announced SES and its partners today. The connectivity provided on an SES satellite is used for […]
Oct 12 2017
Licensees fined for illegal Sky Sports viewing
In the first of three cases, Janet Ferguson, Lisa Kaye and Arnold Martin of The Mayflower[1] in Bootle, Merseyside, were found guilty in their absence of six offences and were each fined £750 per offence and ordered to pay £170 Victim Surcharge and costs of £779.77, totalling £5,449.77 each (a grand total of £16,349.31). In […]
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By Expat • UK Media News • • Tags: FACT, Federation Against Copyright Theft, Sky Sports