Orange TV Grows

by Satellite Hobby on February 28, 2010

Orange TV, part of the huge France Telecom organisation, has announced that its total European digital TV subscriber base has grown by a massive fifty three per cent to 3.217 million during the past year.

In France, which is of course the key area for France Telecom, Orange TV performed well, showing an incredible forty seven per cent increase in subscribers as at the end of December 2009.

However the French company includes online TV with its satellite subscriber base, which probably has more to do with providing advertisers with full viewer figures rather than any attempt to massage the amount of subscribers that the company has on its books at any one time.

Figures are up generally for Orange TV, with sport and film service users standing at 633,000 compared with 130,000 in 2008, while on demand services increased by 67 per cent to 8.5 million.

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Sky Deutschland feeling the strain

by Satellite Hobby on February 28, 2010

The German pay TV satellite provider Sky Deutschland, which of course is controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is expecting to report a loss for 2010, but for the following year the broadcaster is expecting to see a profit.

Sky Deutschland, which is the country’s largest pay TV operator, will be posting a loss of between 130 million and 170 million Euros for the year 2010.

This will be reversed in the following year but by how much has not been predicted.

The company is in good shape and when it comes to average revenue per customer, the broadcasters is claiming that currently three quarters of its customers are paying in excess of thirty Euros per month.

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RAI signs up SES Astra for new channel launch

January 31, 2010

Italian public broadcaster RAI has had a long relationship with Eutelsat, but that hasn’t stopped it signing with SES Astra for a new channel launch.
SES Astra says it has signed a capacity agreement with RAI to use capacity from Astra’s 19.2 degrees East orbital position to broadcast its new international channel Yes Italia to a [...]

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Amos-5i satellite starts operations over Africa

January 31, 2010

Spacecom, the Amos satellite fleet operator,  announced that the Amos-5i satellite has reached its 17 degrees East orbital position and has begun commercial service.
With clients from Africa, Europe and the Middle East already on board, the Amos-5i satellite enables Spacecom to start serving the growing African market with C-band and Ku-band capacity.
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BSkyB Receives More Profits

January 31, 2010

The satellite, broadband and phone provider BSkyB has once again defied the recession and posted an increase in revenues and at the same time have been signing up new customers.
If ever a business was recession proof Sky TV would have to be up there with the leaders.
Sky TV is now within sight of the long [...]

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Happy New Year to all our readers

January 3, 2010

Sat4fun wishes all of you a Happy New Year.

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New Freesat set top box from Humax

December 12, 2009

The new Freesat set top boxes announced this week by Humax will not only offer the user access to free to view satellite TV through Freesat but, like many of the boxes coming to the market recently, will also offer access to the BBC iPlayer and possibly the ITV Player.
There will be two versions of [...]

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A third of Brits listen to Internet radio

December 12, 2009

A survey undertaken by RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research) has revealed that a third of those questioned said they have listened to an Internet radio station.
The poll, conducted in November, questioned 977 UK adults on their listening preferences. The figure of a third extrapolated would represent 17.4 million people who’ve tuned into net radio in [...]

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BBC Worldwide can go ahead with UKTV purchase

November 28, 2009

Just as Virgin Media pulls out from its decision to sell the Virgin Media TV channels, it would seem that the BBC Trust has finally given BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial division, the go ahead to purchase the other 50 per cent of UKTV.
UKTV is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media, with [...]

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Sky Deutschland starts HDTV promotion

November 28, 2009

Sky Deutschland is making a decisive push into the HD TV satellite market by offering consumers a reasonably priced HD TV Starter box.
Priced at just 199 Euros, the HD TV Starter pack includes the HD set top box and a pre paid HD TV subscription.
There are two different types of starter pack, the DTH satellite [...]

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