The EU has fleshed out its core demands as regards the tender process for its proposed IRIS2 super-constellation of satellites. The European Commission (EC) issued its preliminary Request for Proposals on March 23rd and set a date for responses of April 26th. That date will slip (to July 31st) given the number of queries raised […]

Fox Sports Mexico has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Eutelsat on its 117 degrees West A satellite. Fox Sports Mexico is the country’s leading multiplatform pay-TV sports broadcaster, including channels Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3, and Fox Sports Premium, reaching more than 15 million Mexican households. The brand has a wide […]

Shortly, Eutelsat 13G, the operator’s very latest satellite, will be positioned at its ‘home’ location, 13 degrees East, but meanwhile it is being tested near 12 degrees East where reportedly four signals are being transmitted to ensure coverage is as expected. 13G was launched back in November 2022 and in February 2023, its sister craft […]

RecordTV has signed a multi-year agreement for carriage with Eutelsat on its 65 WestA satellite. RecordTV is a Brazilian media company focused on the content production and its distribution in Brazil and internationally. RecordTV is one of the largest TV networks in Brazil. The partnership enables RecordTV to migrate 15 HD channels to the Eutelsat […]

Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Indian billionaire telecoms tycoon and executive chairman of OneWeb, which is in the process of merging with Paris-based Eutelsat, said a secondary listing in London was a plan “we will deliver”. “The benefit is that you have a varied investor base to address to, but this is more a requirement of […]

Eutelsat’s important HotBird 13F satellite, launched back in October 2022, is now in orbit. It has taken the past few months since its SpaceX launch to steadily raise its orbital height using its on-board electrical propulsion. Prime contractor for the satellite was Airbus and Eutelsat is using the Airbus/ESA Eurostar Neo platform. Currently HotBird 13F […]

Mexico’s StarGroup has expanded its capacity agreement with Eutelsat for its StarTV direct-to-home pay-TV service. Operating via Eutelsat since 2016, StarTV will continue to benefit from coverage of Mexico at 117° West. StarTV DTH service was launched in 2016, replacing the regional platform TVZac, which had been broadcast through microwave distribution. Partnering with Eutelsat, StarTV […]

PCTV, a subsidiary of Mexico’s leading cable operator Megacable Comunicaciones, has added to its capacity on Eutelsat 117 West A satellite through a multi-year agreement. The deal further strengthens a decade-long partnership between PCTV and Eutelsat, expanding PCTV’s already extensive video services from Mexico to countries across the entire Latin American region. PCTV operates a […]

Eutelsat has signed a multi-orbit agreement with Intelsat to enhance connectivity solutions over Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific, including OneWeb services. Under this new seven-year, multi-million-euro capacity agreement with a progressive roll-out of assets over 2023, leveraging Eutelsat’s High-throughput satellites (HTS) in the Ku-band including the recently launched EUTELSAT 10B satellite and OneWeb’s […]

Luxembourg-based M7 Group, a European pay-TV provider owned by Canal+ Group, has concluded an agreement with the US Agency for Global Media or the satellite distribution of Current Time TV in HD via both ASTRA 19.2 and Eutelsat E9B. Current Time TV is a 24/7 Russian-language TV and digital network, providing live news, robust debate, […]