Author: Staff Writer

UK cable operator Telewest is looking to put the pressure on satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB by revamping its digital TV packages in the UK market. The cable company is launching...

Tachyon Network, a Vienna, Va.-based provider of high-speed, broadband satellite communications for commercial enterprises, appointed Yaniv Oz to the newly created position of vice president of distribution channels. Oz joins...

U.K.-based pay-TV operator BSkyB has announced that Jeremy Darroch will assume the duties of CFO on Aug. 16. Darroch currently is group finance director of Dixons Group plc. BSkyB’s CFO...

McLean, Va.-based StarBand, a high-speed, two-way satellite Internet provider, is teaming with C-COM Satellite Systems to launch a self-pointing, mobile, high- speed Internet service. The partnership provides a new level...

EchoStar Communications Corporation [DISH], a Littleton, Colo.-based satellite TV services provider, signed ABC Channel 33, WYTV, in Youngstown, Ohio, as its 1,000th local channel in the United States. This addition...

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM], a global provider of end-to-end, satellite-based communications solutions, reached a $4 million settlement with an unnamed “major customer,” and it has received initial payments of $3.5...

Jurgen Schulte, CFO for SES GLOBAL S.A. [SESG], is retiring, succeeded by Mark Rigolle, who joins that company from Belgacom. Schulte joined SES in 1991 as finance director after a...

Mountain View, Calif.-based Actel [ACTL] is making available engineering samples for all three devices in its high-density RTAX-S family of radiation- tolerant, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The devices are intended...

NDS has added Music Choice, a European digital audio broadcaster, to its Sky platform in Italy. Music Choice is the first interactive music application to be deployed on the Italian...

London-based Inmarsat Ltd., a pioneer provider of global mobile satellite communications, chose Stratos Global Corp. as a possible partner in the commercial launch of its next-generation Broadband Global Area Network...