Once again this year, Hispasat, the Spanish satellite-based telecommunications operator, is exhibiting at Satellite 2019 in Washington, D.C., the world's most important trade fair in the satellite sector. The fair, which starts today and lasts until Wednesday, 8 May, brings together the sector's leading actors and hundreds of companies and speakers.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, leader in the distribution of content in Spanish and Portuguese, has announced the call for entries for the second edition of the Hispasat 4K International Film Festival, one the first festivals in the world entirely dedicated to short films, shot and post-produced in 4K.

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., (TSXV: CMI) the leading global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced today that it has successfully tested its first Ka-band phased array modules based on the company’s patent-pending phase shifter technology. The 4×4 sub-array antenna module technology has been developed in partnership with the University of Waterloo at its Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) under the guidance of Dr. Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini, director of (CIARS).

ABS and TRACE announce an agreement to broadcast TRACE Urban via ABS-2, Global C-band beam across the Asia Pacific region – The channel will debut on 1st May 2016.

TRACE Urban is the #1 international urban music channel, giving a unique insight into urban culture and featuring the most popular urban music genres: R&B, hip-hop, dance, and rhythmic pop. TRACE Urban is available in 130 countries to 60 million subscribers, and covers all aspects of urban and youth culture.

Satellite operator Kacific Broadband Satellitesand Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, today announced they have agreed on a cooperation for powering Kacific’s interim services using Newtec Dialog® to be deployed and to provide affordable satellite broadband connectivity in the Pacific.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL) announced today that its commercial solutions segment has signed a multi-year contract valued at approximately $12.0 million with a major telecom equipment manufacturer. Under the terms of the contract, the telecom equipment manufacturer, which also is a global distributor of Comtech's services, will support the continued roll out of Comtech’s solutions to several wireless operators across the globe, including a large-scale North American-based wireless operator

Advantech Wireless, a global leader for High Throughput Satellite (HTS) broadband communications solutions, will be demonstrating at the 2016 NAB Show its new record breaking WSM-5000 DVB-S/S2/S2X High Throughput Wideband Broadcast Satellite Modulator designed to transmit carriers of up to 600MHz.

The WSM-5000 supports single carrier data rate up to 500MSPS (600MHz) with an improved 1% roll-off-factor delivering cost savings of up to 30% in Broadcast and Broadband DVB- S2X deployments.

STN, a leading provider transmission services and solutions to broadcasters, announces that it is spearheading a new commercial initiative to help content owners and broadcasters across the Asia-Pacific region to reach new audiences in the international markets including Europe, Africa and the US. STN’s goal is to help Asia-Pacific-based broadcasters to take advantage of the growing phenomenon of ‘diaspora broadcasting’.

ND SatCom and Centrum Szkoleniowe Hector (CSH) announce their Cooperation on delivering Satellite Courses in Poland. As a result of this cooperation, a broad range of courses certified by ND SatCom will be available for polish customers, at CSH training centre in Warsaw.

Spanish telecommunications satellite operator HISPASAT, in collaboration with Cellnex Telecom, has expanded the number of Atresmedia television channels it currently distributes across the American continent through its Hispasat 30W-5 satellite.  

In addition to the channel Antena 3 Internacional, which HISPASAT has broadcast since 2002 in SD (Standard Definition), it will now broadcast the channels Hola TV and Atreseries Internacional. These three international channels are currently distributed in HD format (High Definition).