Arqiva, a communications infrastructure and media services company, has won a deal to deliver satellite services for Al Jazeera in the Middle East.According to the deal, Arqiva will support Qatars first satellite...
Globecast and ARABSAT have extended their relationship for the distribution of the Global Arabic Bouquet (GAB), a grouping of premium Arabic channels from the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) that...
Khalid Balkheyour.Arabsat and Morgan Company for Information and Communications Technology (MICT) have signed a capacity contract at 20 degrees East. Under the agreement, Arabsat will provide...
ViewSat, a global provider of broadcast services for television and radio, has announced record growth owing to the increase in the number of channels in the region. During 2013, the...
A recent report has revealed that pay-TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will grow by more than 83% between 2010 and 2020 to USD 5.60 billion....
ISOL, a provider of satellite services in Lebanon, has selected Atemes Kyrion CM5000 for its DSNG (Digital Satellite News Gathering) operations.Based in the centre of Beirut, ISOL is an independent...
Inmarsat has signed an agreement with Globecomm, appointing the specialised managed satellite services provider as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Global Xpress, serving the Government market in Africa and...
SIS LIVE, an operator of Satellite News Gathering (SNG) vehicles, has selected ATEMEs Kyrion encoders and decoders to equip 18 new Ka band vehicles with the latest compression technology for...
Khalid Balkheyour, CEO, Arabsat.Arab Satellite Communications Organisation (Arabsat) has undertaken a transition plan for load distribution as part of its strategic plans to support and develop...
ScheduALL, a global provider of enterprise resource management software for media and transmission, has effectively centralised the management of bookings across Encompass Digital Media Inc. in the United States.Encompass owns...
ViewSat, a global satellite transmission company, has secured capacity across North America, reaching seven million people.ViewSat is now able to offer its growing client base, situated principally in the MENA...
New research and analysis by the Arab Advisors Group has revealed that as of August 2013 the four satellite pay TV operators, broadcasting from the region, offered a combined total...
Globecast is providing services to NHK WORLD, delivering the channel via satellite to new audiences in Central and Western Africa. NHK WORLD, the international broadcast channel of Japanese national public...
ViewSat 9m antenna.ViewSat, a global provider of broadcast and transmission services for television and radio channels, has announced the launch of its second MENA satellite transponder...
TDA and Newtec at the TDA-ASBU MENOS signing session.Satellite communications specialist, Newtec and Télédiffusion dAlgérie have signed a multi-million Euro contract to deploy several of Newtecs interactive satellite...
Eutelsat Communications and Qatari partner Es'hailSat have announced that their jointly-owned Eutelsat 25B/Es'hail 1 satellite has been successfully launched by an Ariane 5 rocket and is on course for geostationary...
Cliff Nelson, CEO, My-HD.Irdeto has announced that My-HD, a satellite pay-TV platform in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA), has selected its Media Protection to...
Khalid Balkheyour, President & CEO of ARABSAT.GlobeCast and satellite operator Arabsat are offering new solutions for broadcasters seeking to distribute programming in North Africa. The collaboration...
BBC World News will be offered as a High Definition (HD) feed across the Middle East from August 5 on Arabsat.Arabsat will be the BBCs first distribution partner in the...
Cliff Nelson,CEO, My-HD.My-HD, a satellite Pay-TV platform in the MENA region has unveiled a host of High Definition (HD) Rotana Channels, one of the largest TV...
Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour.Baghdad-based Iraqi Media Network has built a satellite TV broadcast platform to broadcast on Arabsat satellites at its Hot Spot 26° East .This...
Arab Advisors Groups research has revealed an increase in adoption of social media platforms by the 40 analysed free-to-air satellite channels. The 40 analysed channels were selected on the basis...
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (YahSat), a private joint stock company fully owned by Mubadala, has appointed Masood M. Sharif Mahmood as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as of June...
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (YahSat), a private joint stock company fully owned by Mubadala, has announced the UAE launch of YahClick, its satellite broadband internet service. YahClick will...
In a bid to support the local community, Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (Yahsat), a private joint stock company fully owned by Mubadala, in partnership with the Zayed Higher...
Intelsat S.A., a provider of satellite services, and Ericsson have announced the successful demonstration of a true 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD), end-to-end video transmission over satellite to Turner Broadcastings...
ViewSat has chosen IS20 to support growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. ViewSat has recently extended its reach to additional areas, including the Middle East, Europe and North America, in response to...
Newtec MDM6000 satellite modem.Mobile 3G networks in Africa are set to benefit from new-generation Newtec modems including, S2 Extensions technology that boost the performance and efficiency...
Khalid Balkheyour, President and CEO of Arabsat.Arab Satellite Communications Organisation - Arabsat was awarded as the Best Satellite Operator of the year at SATCOM Africa...
Sami Boustany, Acting CEO of YahLive.Following the exit of former CEO Mohamed Youssif, Sami Boustany has been appointed Acting CEO of YahLive by Al Yah Satellite...
Dubai's content and service providers will now be able to move rich data around more swiftly and cost-effectively following the addition of IX Reach to the first carrier neutral internet...
According to a report released by media research company Discover Digital Arabia, there are 73.3%, privately owned Arab satellite channels with 25.8% being government-owned, the remaining channels, roughly 1%, are...
Intelsat S.A., a satellite service provider, announced a multi-year extension agreement with Lebanon-based ART/International Network Distribution (IND), an aggregator and distributor of niche and international channels in the global market.ART/IND...
Mohamed Youssif, CEO of YahLive.Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle, is now available for the first time across the Middle East and...
Talia and Newtec will provide a new satellite communications backbone infrastructure for AGSM.MOBI, a mobile operator in Somalia. Based on Newtecs FlexACMtechnology, the network will enable reliable mobile voice, data,...
My-HD Media has signed a long-term strategic partnership with Arabsat, expanding the reach of its channels to over 170 million viewers in more than 80 countries across the Middle East,...
As part of its strategic collaboration and long-lasting partnership with Arabsat, CETel extended a part of its capacity lease with Arabsat on the powerful satellites Arabsat 5A at orbital position...
YahLive, the High Definition television satellite broadcast platform and Home of HD for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has expanded its distribution network of YahLive certified satellite...
Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkheyour.Arabsat has signed an agreement with the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation (OTE), one of the largest telecom groups in South Eastern Europe, for the...
ARABSAT has finalised the mission definition for BADR-7 and confirmed the in-orbit delivery contract to the consortium of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space which has already started building the new...
As part of a new deal, GlobeCast will provide YahLive with a 24/7 monitoring and reporting service for its satellite signals (video, audio, and data) across the MENA region. The...
The Egyptian government has denied trying to restrict the freedom of speech and expression by stopping satellite channel reported Kuwait Times.Egypt's Minister of Information Salah Abdulmaqsood at a press conference...
ViewSat, based in the UK and specialising in delivering television and radio to sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Middle East, has expanded its channels. PlayBox has supplied two playout...
Mohammed Saifi, Broadcast Engineering Manager, twofour54As satellite communication technology evolves and grows continuously, satellite networks are increasingly subject to radio frequency interference from a variety of ground transmitters.Interference has become...
GlobeCast and FRANCE 24 have announced they will expand their exploratory Hybrid Broadband Broadcast Television (HbbTV) service to the Middle East this year with the support of Orange and Arabsat.The...
Mohamed Youssif.UAE-based satellite operator, YahLive, and a UK-based communications infrastructure and media services company, Arqiva, have announced a new partnership to establish a European hub from...
JP Delport.Cobhams wireless camera system has been used in SNG trucks at Sky News Arabia. The equipment, including Cobhams MPEG4 encoder, was originally demonstrated at Sky...
UAE-based satellite broadcasting company, YahLive, and free-to-air Arabic TV channel, Tawazon TV, have signed a deal announcing a long-term partnership for Tawazon TV programmes to be broadcast in high definition...
Eutelsat Communications is in the final phase of preparation of satellite transmissions of the London Olympic Games, the world's leading international multi-sport events, expected to generate over 2,000 hours of...
Ali Al Kuwari, CEO, Es'hailSatAl Jazeera Networks (AJN) and EshailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote closer...
Eutelsat, one of three largest satellite operators in the world, has granted approval to ProSat Solutions GmbH and their D120M and D150M auto-pointing antennae. These two products are now added...
With plans to partner with local media hubs, Paksat CEO Usman Bajwa believes that the Pakistan-based satellite operator is well positioned to leverage...
The satellite industrys flying car is finally making its way down the production line writes Drew Klein,...
From left: Serge van Herck, CEO of Newtec and Yahsat CEO, Tareq Abdul Raheem Al Hosani.Yahsat has launched a new dedicated business service called YahCarrier that...
Serge Van Herck, CEO, NewtecAt CABSAT 2012, Yahsat, the UAE-based satellite operator, has announced that it is to implement Newtecs FlexACM technology for its high-speed, Ka-band...
Iraq has deployed Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS) TV interactive terminals from NewtecBroadcasters in Iraq will now have access to their own IP-based and fully...
YahLive has allocated both satellite capacity and a number of HD channels to provide broadcasters with connectivity and service, from London to the Middle...
One of the earliest developers of Ka-Band antenna technology, Canada-based ASC Signal, will be demonstrating its patented sub-reflector tracking technology, among other...
AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 are scheduled to launch in the first half of 2014 from the launch complex of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX),...
Hamdi Ould Mahgoub, the Mauritanian Minister of Communication and Relations, visited the headquarters of the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation...
