Rethink Technology Research’s Rethink TV service has launched a new report which shows how Direct to Home satellite TV (DTH) subscriber falls will accelerate and spread from North America to Europe and eventually to the Far East. Where subscribers numbers rise there will be falls in ARPU.

The new report is entitled, “Who benefits as Global DTH revenue set to shed $ billions – Forecast to 2024” and it is part of the Rethink TV series of forecasts, sold by Rethink as a subscription service.

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) released the 2019 State of the Satellite Industry Report at an industry briefing as part of the SIA-organized Government and Military Forum at the SATELLITE 2019 conference and exhibition in Washington, DC.  SIA’s 22nd annual industry report, produced by Bryce Space and Technology, LLC, is derived from proprietary surveys of satellite companies, in-depth public information, and independent analysis which are combined to assess the performance of key satellite industry sectors including satellite services, manufacturing, ground equipment and

It started with Iridium and Globalstar, the first satellite constellations. When Iridium began designing a 66-satellite system and Globalstar specified 48 spacecraft, the companies faced a completely new need: to standardize on a single design and produce it in quantity.

Conviva, a research firm that specializes on the streaming entertainment industry, has concluded that while adoption of streaming is increasing, so is the complexity of achieving the goal of seamless video delivery at scale. In its "State of the Streaming TV Industry for First Quarter 2019," Conviva said that maintaining a high-quality viewer experience across content and advertising is critical as streaming TV providers look to increase viewer retention and monetization.

NSR’s Maritime Satcom Markets, 7th Edition report, forecasts VSAT-enabled Maritime vessels to grow from over 20,000 vessels in 2018 to over 75,000 by 2028. Generating almost US$ 42 billion in cumulative revenues between 2018 – 2028, the Maritime satcom connectivity market has never looked more promising, NSR concluded.

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Pay TV revenues in Eastern Europe will peak at US$ 6.95 billion in 2019 - before slowly falling to $6.59 billion by 2024. According to Digital TV Research, analog cable revenues will drop by US$ 844 million over this period, so digital pay TV revenues will increase by US$502 million to US$6.56.

The number of subscription video on demand (SVOD) subscriptions [for movies, linear channels and TV episodes - excluding other platforms such as sports services] in North America will climb by 110 million from 160 million in 2018 to 270 million in 2024.

According to Digital TV Research forecasts, these figures are gross as many homes take more than one SVOD platform.

At the NAB 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Mike Antonovich, CEO of Eutelsat Americas on their offerings for the broadcast market in the Americas.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released the 2019 edition of Sizing the Teleport Market, an update to its 2018 report that presents the most accurate picture of market size, industry revenues, capacity spending, antenna counts and capital expenditure for the teleport industry.