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The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) today announced that Hubbard Radio’s David Kolesar and consulting engineer Winston Caldwell are the recipients of the 2024 NAB Engineering Achievement Awards. They will be honored at the We Are Broadcasters Awards, held on the Main Stage of the 2024 NAB Show, April 16 at 9:30 a.m.
Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has announced the renewal and growth of their partnership with beIN MEDIA GROUP (beIN), the leading global sports and entertainment broadcaster, to provide the satellite capacity, uplink, connectivity and 24x7 operational support on Es’hail-2 satellite located at the 26⁰ East hotspot covering Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These upgraded services are based on Es’hailSat’s growing product and service portfolio, that continue to strengthen the multi-channel, multi-year, multi-transponder partnership between beIN and Es’hailSat.
Western Europe will lose nearly 9 million pay TV subscribers between 2023 and 2029 to reach 93 million – down by 8%. This is nowhere near as bad as the US as pay TV penetration will still be 53% by 2029 – down from 58% in 2023 according to Digital TV Research.
INTEGRASYS launches LEO NMS control and management of Non-Geostationary Satellites (NGSOs), including but not limited to Starlink with centralized redundant cloud infrastructure to accommodate the automation and AI portal to ease and operate a well-managed network providing uptime/downtime, speeds, QoS, SLA (Service Level Agreement) metrics per dish or terminal.
WORK Microwave, one of the leading manufacturers of advanced satellite communications equipment, launched its end-to-end Communication Package suite of equipment for multi-mission optical ground stations according to SDA and CCSDS standards.
Media software solutions provider today announced new leadership in the form of Sam Kamel as CEO and Fred Fourcher as Chairman. This marks a return for Bitcentral founder Fourcher, evolving Bitcentral from an essential software platform for nightly news preparation to a leading company in streaming media. Under Fourcher's guidance, Bitcentral will continue to redefine audience engagement, offering scalable solutions from traditional broadcast newsrooms to dynamic streaming online talk shows.
Hanwha Phasor, a UK-based satellite communications company, has announced two new key hires as part of the business’ expansion into the US market. Richard LePage joins the organization as a Business Development Director, United States Government (USG), and Scott McCobb joins as Hanwha Phasor’s Commercial Director, Aviation – both positions will include a seat on Hanwha Phasor’s leadership team.
INTEGRASYS launches BestPath a new tool that allows to select in operation or simulation of all possible connectivities and prioritize and switch for maximizing resiliency. INTEGRASYS launches BestPath for automating the path selection under acquisition or service disruption due to ENI, cyber power outage, or catastrophes as well as speeding the user enablement process and ensuring resiliency seamlessly. BestPath is a fast and easy-to-use disruptive technology, based on INTEGRASYS Enterprise Management & Control becoming an essential module for maximizing service in congested environments.
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM), today announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, a provider of highly secure satellite-based time and location services that complement and protect GPS and other GNSS-reliant systems.This acquisition continues Iridium’s philosophy of investing in differentiating technologies uniquely suited to its network that significantly outperform competing solutions according to the company.
