- December 19, 2024 — SES has announced that ASTRA 1P, positioned at 19.2°E, has completed testing and is now fully operational. Equipped with 80 transponders, ASTRA 1P can support hundreds of HD TV channels.
- December 6, 2024 — According to Anacom, at the end of 3Q 2024, there were 4.1 million residential subscribers to pay TV in Portugal, 59 thousand more (+1.5%) than in the same quarter of the previous year.
- December 10, 2024 — Synamedia and OSN Group have announced the launch of a CTV proposition for targeted advertising on linear broadcast channels, powered by Synamedia's Iris addressable TV platform.
- December 9, 2024 — Vivendi shareholders have approved the separation from Vivendi of Canal+, Havas and the Louis Hachette Group. First trading of the shares of the three will take place on December 16, 2024.
- December 4, 2024 — Samsung has announced that its Samsung TVKey Cloud is currently available through GTPL and Dish TV in India. The technology, co-developed with NAGRAVISION, eliminates the need for traditional STBs.
- November 22, 2024 — DIRECTV has terminated the agreement to acquire EchoStar's video distribution business, DISH DBS, following rejection by DISH DBS noteholders of the EchoStar debt exchange offer terms.
- November 13, 2024 — wedotv is expanding the distribution of its wedotv big stories channel to audiences across the Middle East and North Africa via EUTELSAT 7 West A, located in the region's 7/8°W video neighbourhood.
- November 12, 2024 — MultiChoice has released an update for the six months ended 30 September 2024. On a YoY basis, the company's linear subscriber base declined by 11% or 1.8m subscribers to 14.9m active subscribers.
- November 12, 2024 — EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) has released results for the period ended Sept. 30, 2024. Pay-TV subscribers fell 43,000 in Q3, to close at 8.03 million (5.89 million DISH TV, 2.14 million SLING TV).
- November 7, 2024 — Dialog Axiata has announced results for the nine months ended 30th September 2024. Dialog Television (DTV) maintained its subscriber base at around 1.6 million as of end Q3 2024.
- November 7, 2024 — Telefónica has presented results for the third quarter of 2024. In Spain, Pay TV net adds were 49,000 for the quarter. Elsewhere Pay TV subscribers fell 44,000, resulting in net global growth of 5,000.
- November 6, 2024 — Türk Telekom Group has announced third quarter 2024 results. TV Home recorded 20k net additions and maintaining its subscriber base at around 1.5 million.
- November 6, 2024 — SES has extended its contracts with Austria’s largest media provider and public broadcaster ORF and its content distribution subsidiary ORS Group on SES's prime TV neighbourhood at 19.2°E.
- November 5, 2024 — SES has extended its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). SES will provide playout services and satellite capacity to deliver WBD's channels across Germany and Austria from 19.2°E.
- November 4, 2024 — Telekom Srbija has extended the contract for SES to provide capacity on ASTRA 3C at 23.5°E for its M:Sat TV platform, covering Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
- October 31, 2024 — Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. Domestic video customers fell 365,000 in the quarter. Peacock paid subscribers grew by 29% YoY to 36 million.
- October 21, 2024 — Pay TV service revenue in the Philippines will increase slightly over 2023-2028, supported by strong growth in IPTV subscriptions and a steady rise in DTH subscriptions.
- October 17, 2024 — DISH Network (Nasdaq: SATS) has announced that Netflix Standard Plan (ad-free) is included with DISH TV subscriptions, at no additional cost for two years, for new DISH customers.
- October 17, 2024 — Foxtel Media is partnering with tvbeat to convert linear TV spots into digitally tracked impressions, enabling improved audience targeting, ad analytics and programmatic trading of linear ad buys.
- October 10, 2024 — SES has extended its 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°E.
- October 8, 2024 — SEI Robotics has joined forces with Dish TV India to launch Dish TV Smart+ Box, providing customers with access to OTT apps alongside their chosen satellite TV subscription pack.
- October 7, 2024 — DishTV is launching a Direct-to-TV service in India using TVKey Cloud by NAGRAVISION (SIX:KUD.S) and Samsung, offering secure satellite content on Samsung TVs without the need for a set-top box.
- October 1, 2024 — INVIDI has announced a partnership with Thaicom and PSI to launch addressable advertising in Thailand, starting on satellite in 2H 2025, followed by terrestrial in late 2026.
- September 30, 2024 — DIRECTV and EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) have entered into a definitive agreement under which DIRECTV will acquire EchoStar's video distribution business DISH DBS, including DISH TV and Sling TV.
- September 18, 2024 — Wiztivi has created a custom HbbTV app for Eutelsat. Wiztivi was chosen to design and develop the Sat.tv Connect application after successfully delivering Eutelsat's Fransat Connect HbbTV app.
- September 17, 2024 — According to Anacom, at the end of Q2 2024, there were 4.6 million pay TV subscribers in Portugal, up 86,000 year-on-year. The growth rate was the lowest (+1.9%) since the end of 2013.
- September 13, 2024 — Dish TV India, in collaboration with TiViCon, has introduced a satellite TV adapter, offering customers easy access to a mix of DTH and OTT streamed media through Android devices.
- September 13, 2024 — Eutelsat (Paris/London:ETL) has announced that Al Jazeera Media Network has reaffirmed its commitment to Eutelsat for satellite broadcast services across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
- September 13, 2024 — Irdeto has announced that it is powering Akash Digital TV's new DTH HD platform for Bangladesh. Building on a longstanding partnership, Akash's new set-top boxes now include Irdeto middleware.
- September 13, 2024 — Eutelsat (Paris/London: ETL) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with TV Plus to provide premium DTH broadcasting services across Australia and New Zealand.
- Leading German pay-TV platform Sky Deutschland reports that in 2013 its audience increased by over 300,000 subscribers to 3,667,000. Nearly half of these (1.8 million) subscribe to Sky’s high definition package. The broadcaster expects...
- The Czech Republic state broadcaster Česká Televize (CT) has added two children’s online applications to the HbbTV services offered alongside its broadcast channels. One app provides information and video on children’s programmes...
- Four new channels have been added to HD+, to bring the number of HD channels on the German high definition satellite platform to 20. The new additions are news channel n-tv HD, male orientated entertainment channels ProSieben Maxx HD and...
- Discovery Networks has launched a new channel aimed at women viewers in Central and Eastern Europe. Investigation Discovery Xtra (ID Xtra) is an off-shoot of the existing (more male-orientated) Investigation Discovery channel and focuses...
- Hot on the heels of the agreement between UK free-to-air satellite platform, Freesat and TV maker, Panasonic to incorporate Freesat’s Freetime EPG in Panasonic smart TVs, Freesat has made a similar agreement with Vestel, the World’s...
- The five HD channels from German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 will broadcast free-to-air over the Easter period. From April 18 until April 21, viewers with an HD TV and receiver, and a dish for Astra 19.2°E, will be able to watch Pro7,...
- Direct to home (DTH) satellite TV is the most popular means of TV reception in Europe, with 86.2 million European TV homes (35%) watching via a satellite dish in 2013, according to the annual market research study "Satellite Monitor"...
- Panasonic is adding Freetime to its new integrated Freesat satellite TV sets. Available in most of Panasonic’s 2014 range of Viera smart TVs, including 4K models, the Freetime EPG allows viewers to ‘roll back’ their TV guide for the...
- The new ASTRA 5B satellite has been successfully launched into orbit to provide more capacity for broadcasts to Eastern Europe and neighbouring countries. ASTRA 5B will be positioned at the 31.5°E orbital position, where ASTRA 1G is...
- According to Polish public broadcaster, Telewizja Polska (TVP), HbbTV services on its hybrid broadcast/online platform are now used by more than 320,000 viewers in Poland. TVP expects this to rise to 500,000 by the end of the year.