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Feb 14 2022
NBC News Now is currently carring out HD tests on the Astra 2E satellite at 28.2° East. There is currently no launch date as yet, or any information about which satellite platforms it will be available on at present. You can manually tune in to the test transmissions on the following frequency: Astra 2E Frequency: […]
Apr 27 2021
Rupert Murdoch’s News UK has scrapped plans to launch a TV news channel after a review found the project was “not commercially viable”. News UK, which owns the Times and Sun newspapers, had been developing plans to regain a footing in the TV market with a new channel focused on delivering news programming via streaming. […]
Nov 8 2020
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bloomberg Quicktake will launch a 24/7 streaming news network on Monday, November 9, 2020, at 9 am EST with 10.5 hours of programming featuring ten original series and four live daily news shows. The breakthrough news network will provide a global view of the biggest stories for a […]
Apr 20 2020
NBC News has sold its stake in struggling pan-European broadcaster Euronews, dealing a blow to the France-based pay-TV channel, a company source said today. NBC, which acquired its 25-per cent holding three years ago, has sold the shares to Euronews’ majority owner, Egyptian telecoms billionaire Naguib Sawiris, the source told AFP. The deal has increased […]
Nov 27 2019
CNN is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Middle East hub in Abu Dhabi and looking ahead to expansion plans at the network’s key newsgathering, production, broadcasting and commercial centre. November marks a decade since CNN first went on air live from Abu Dhabi. Since then it has increased its footprint in the Emirate, made […]
Feb 26 2019
Financial news channel CNBC has commenced free-to-air tests in HD on the Astra 2E satellite. CNBC is one of the last news channels to make an HD service available in the UK and Ireland. The channel commenced test transmissions as an encrypted service at the beginning of the week, the channel has now switched to […]
Apr 18 2018
Ofcom has today opened seven new investigations into the due impartiality of news and current affairs programmes on the RT news channel. The investigations (PDF, 240.5 KB) form part of an Ofcom update, published today, into the licences held by TV Novosti, the company that broadcasts RT. Until recently, TV Novosti’s overall compliance record has not […]
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 13 2017
LUXEMBOURG, 12 September 2017 – European viewers will be able to continue to follow the news on SKY News International at the prime orbital position of 19.2 degrees East following an extension agreement announced by SES. Under the agreement, SKY News International will utilise SES’s capacity on ASTRA 1N and related uplink services to broadcast […]
Jun 30 2017
The BBC is closing down the standard definition feed of BBC World News on the Astra 1 satellite position at 19.2° East. This will affect viewers in those parts of Europe where the Astra 1 satellites are used for TV reception, notably Austria, France, Germany and Spain, and Belgium. Since 1st April 2015, the HD […]
May 2 2017
International Turkish news channel TRT World has made its official UK debut after months of testing on satellite, with its arrival on Sky. Sky viewers can now access both standard and high definition versions of the English-language news channel, which is operated by Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT. Under the motto “Where News Inspires Change”, the […]
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Mar 18 2022
Ofcom revokes RT’s broadcast licence
Ofcom has today revoked RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK, with immediate effect. We have done so on the basis that we do not consider RT’s licensee, ANO TV Novosti, fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence. Today’s decision comes amid 29 ongoing investigations by Ofcom into the due impartiality of RT’s […]
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By Expat • News Channels • Tags: Ofcom, RT