News Broadcasting
Intelsat launches Europe broadband service
BERLIN: Intelsat yesterday launched its broadband service that provides direct Internet access via satellite up to 10 times faster than dial-up in Europe.
The broadband service supports e-mail, web browsing, e-commerce and e-learning and is targeted at all business users including home-office user, small-medium enterprises, corporations, institutions and organizations. It also provides center service, technical and marketing support and space segment, hub and teleport. The platform supports multicasting, streaming, distance learning, corporate training and VPN services.
Service will be provided on a wholesale basis. It will be distributed through in-country and regional service providers to end-users. President, Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing Ltd., John Stanton says: “One of the biggest assets of the Intelsat Broadband Service is that it is a fully integrated and pre-engineered turnkey solution, so providers can get the service to market quickly and easily. With low capital investment, service providers can deploy their retail broadband service rapidly and cost-effectively.”
The service utilizes the Intelsat 901 satellite located at 342E, the company’s teleport in Fuchsstadt, Germany and Gilat’s SkyStar 360E platform. Intelsat has commissioned and is operating a SkyStar 360E hub in Fuchsstadt. Intelsat is currently offered in Latin America, Europe and other key regions worldwide.
Broadband Service will be available for commercial sale to European service providers at the CWM Expo in Berlin, Germany from 3- 5 December.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
