Satellite television
Broadcasting of television using artificial satellites
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| April 21 2025 |
PBS Satellite Service
At 9:59 a.m. ET, PBS redesigned the HD03 feed after 16 years, updating the on-screen text, service name display, and NOC logo. The new design uses PBS Sans font, displays service name in all capital letters, and removed the previous clock showing both Eastern and Pacific Time.
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| April 9 2025 |
Intelsat 901
Intelsat declared an end of mission for Intelsat 901. MEV-1 moved the satellite into the graveyard orbit and undocked after completing its 5-year mission.
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| April 2025 | Initial planned closing date for the transaction, which was subsequently delayed. |
| March 24 2025 |
EBS TV
EBS TV was suspended by the Ethiopian Broadcast Authority after airing the rape case story of Birtukan Temesgen.
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| 2025 |
MLS Direct Kick
MLS Direct Kick was superseded by MLS Season Pass, which returned to DIRECTV.
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| March 1 2025 | MultiChoice planned a subscription rate increase for DStv and GOtv in Nigeria, with potential increases up to 20% for some packages, which was subsequently blocked by Nigeria's House of Representatives. |
| 2024 | Projected end of C-band analog channels on the Star One D2 satellite in Brazil, indicating a potential transition period for free-to-air broadcasting technology. |
| 2024 | Sky launched its mobile network Sky Mobile in Ireland, utilizing the Vodafone network. |
| December 2024 |
PBS Satellite Service
PBS launched a terrestrial feed of HD03 on the sIX platform as part of Phase F2 testing.
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| December 2 2024 | Began leasing ABS-CBN Corporation's soundstage in Philippines and introduced Astro One with three new packages: Entertainment, Sports, and Epic. |
| November 2024 | MultiChoice partnered with The Earthshot Prize as its African broadcast partner, with Cape Town set to host the first Earthshot Prize celebration in Africa. |
| November 18 2024 | Announced discontinuation of Astro Warna and Astro Premier as linear TV channels, merging them with Astro Prima and Astro Citra respectively. |
| October 2024 |
Satellite television by region
StarSat operated by On Digital Media served approximately 500,000 households in South Africa.
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| October 17 2024 | Revamped sports content lineup, replacing SuperSport channels with Astro-branded sports channels like Astro Premier League, Astro Football, Astro Badminton, and Astro Sports Plus. |
| September 2024 | Both companies filed with local regulators, maintaining the unchanged terms of their acquisition agreement. |
| August 15 2024 | Sky Sports channels added to Izzi platform, following AT&T's divestment of its 58.7% stake in Sky Mexico to Televisa. |
| June 2024 | Canal+ Group and MultiChoice released a joint circular, with Canal+ having obtained 45.2% of company shares and an interim board approving the revised offer. |
| May 2024 | AK Media was absorbed into AK Entertainment. |
| May 25 2024 | Launched Malaysia4Palestine, a special channel in partnership with RTM to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Palestine, featuring various Malaysian artists. |
| April 1 2024 | The sale of Animax to Nojima was finalized, with Sony first establishing AK Media to transfer shares. |
| March 2024 | MultiChoice reported an 18% drop in subscribers in Nigeria and lost 243,000 subscribers across DStv and GOtv platforms between April and September 2024 due to severe economic conditions. |
| February 1 2024 | Canal+ initially made an offer to MultiChoice's investors to acquire remaining shares at R105 per share, which was 40% higher than the previous day's offer of R75. |
| January 15 2024 | MultiChoice Group announced a partnership with Comcast to offer a standalone Premier League streaming plan on Showmax, expanding its streaming offerings in Africa. |
| 2023 |
Satellite television by region
MyTv Africa became defunct, marking the end of its operations in the satellite television market in Africa.
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| 2023 | Showmax was relaunched in partnership with Comcast, who acquired a 30% stake in the service. |
| 2023 | Astro won the Platinum Media Network Award at the Putra Brand Awards 2023 |
| December 18 2023 | Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan announced the sale of Animax and Kids Station to electronic store chain Nojima. |
| December 6 2023 | DGO rebranded as Sky+ in Brazil, while retaining DGO name in other Latin American countries |
| October 12 2023 | Go Shop ceased operations as part of the company's strategic realignment. |
| September 2023 |
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
HbbTV releases edition 2.0.4 with ETSI TS 102 796 specification version V1.7.1
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| September 2 2023 | A daily CITV programming block introduced on ITV2 from 05:00 to 09:00. |
| September 1 2023 | CITV channel closed, with programming moved to streaming service ITVX. |
| August 4 2023 | DNews celebrated its first anniversary with a special event held at the channel's headquarters in Buenos Aires, featuring high-profile personalities in attendance. |
| May 31 2023 |
PBS Satellite Service
PBS completed the move to Galaxy 16, decommissioning HD04 and HD05 satellite services.
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| May 31 2023 |
PBS Satellite Service
Discontinuation of HD04 and HD05 NPS Feed (SCPC)
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| May 3 2023 |
PBS Satellite Service
HD04/HD05 shutdown notice recorded with a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen.
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| February 2023 | French media company Groupe Canal+ acquired a 30.27% stake in MultiChoice, which eventually increased to 31.7%. |
| January 20 2023 |
PBS Satellite Service
PBS's main transponder on AMC-21 began simulcasting on Galaxy 16 satellite at orbital position 99°W.
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| 2022 | DNews news channel launched, offering newscasts and journalistic programs in partnership with international media outlets including Deutsche Welle, BBC, AFP, Reuters, and Europa Press. |
| 2022 | Astro received Platinum Awards in three categories at the Putra Brand Awards 2022: Media Network Award, Communications Network Award, and e-Commerce Award |
| 2022 | The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission began issuing Content Applications Service Provider (CASP) licenses to 35 broadcasting companies, with four approved to deliver satellite television content. |
| 2022 | Ended operations in Brunei. |
| 2022 | Astro became an Internet Service Provider and launched Astro Fibre, offering standalone broadband services for both residential and business customers through BIZfibre. |
| October 11 2022 | DirecTV Go officially rebranded as DGO |
| March 2022 | Claro TV rebranded to Claro TV+ in March, marking a significant update to the company's service identity. |
| January 1 2022 | Animax is shut down in Malaysia by Astro. |
| 2021 | Partnered with Netflix to expand content offering by making Netflix service available on Astro's platform. |
| December 13 2021 |
Ekspress satellites
Ekspress-AMU3 and Ekspress-AMU7 satellites jointly launched using Proton-M / Briz-M rocket. Ekspress-AMU3 is operational at 103.0° East and will replace Ekspress-AM33, Ekspress-AMU7 is operational at 145.0° East and will replace Ekspress-A4.
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| November 16 2021 | The sale of Vrio to Grupo Werthein is completed. |
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