- February 21, 2025 — Freeview New Zealand's satellite TV service is to move to Koreasat 6 in early April. The move is essential for service continuity as the current satellite nears the end of its commercial life.
- February 13, 2025 — Eutelsat (ISIN: FR0010221234; Paris/London: ETL) and Advanced Telecommunications Solutions and Services (ATSS) have renewed their satellite capacity agreement on the EUTELSAT 8 West B satellite.
- February 13, 2025 — Orange has released results to December 31, 2024. The company finished the year with 11.058 million IPTV and satellite subscribers, down 8,700 in the quarter, and down 86,900 year-on-year.
- February 13, 2025 — U.S. MVPDs, plus Ampersand and the VAB, have announced unified guidance on multiscreen TV advertising terminology, aiming to align the industry around the various TV advertising delivery types.
- February 10, 2025 — Space Norway has ordered THOR 8 from Thales Alenia Space. From 1°W, the THOR 8 satellite will ensure continuity of Space Norway's broadcast coverage over the Nordics, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- February 6, 2025 — Bharti Airtel has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. In the quarter Digital TV subscribers grew by 29,000 to finish the year at 15.823 million.
- February 2, 2025 — Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has released its 2024 Communications Market Report analysing both international and domestic telecoms and broadcasting industries.
- January 30, 2025 — Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has reported results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. Domestic video customers fell 311,000 in the quarter. Peacock paid subscribers grew by 16% YoY to 36 million.
- January 30, 2025 — ThinkAnalytics' AI will be integrated into search, voice search discovery and personalized recommendations across DISH, Sling TV, and DISH Anywhere services - on both satellite and OTT platforms.
- January 26, 2025 — Sky New Zealand is aware that a growing number of customers have experienced signal disruption following the decision by Optus to place its D2 satellite into an inclined orbit to conserve fuel.
- January 22, 2025 — 'yes' is migrating from satellite to OTT delivery, with satellite due to end in February 2026. The company is now considering continued limited satellite broadcasts beyond this date as well.
- January 8, 2025 — DIRECTV Advertising has announced the programmatic enablement of its linear satellite inventory, providing advertisers with access to audiences across satellite and streaming.
- January 7, 2025 — SKY Perfect JSAT has released end-December 2024 subscriber numbers for its SKY PerfecTV! multichannel pay TV broadcast service and optical fiber based re-transmission service.
- December 22, 2024 — DAZN has announced an agreement to acquire Foxtel Group from its majority shareholder News Corp and minority shareholder Telstra at an enterprise value of US$2.2bn, subject to regulatory approval.
- 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.
- 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.