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By Peter J. Brown The data broadcasting market is no easy thing to define these days. Can you blame it on the growing number of Gigabit Ethernet routers? Not exactly, […]

By Mark Holmes Industry executives increasing their portfolios with Euros and British Pounds witnessed dramatic changes in the European broadcasting arena, a phenomenon that may result in major ramifications for […]

Like their North American counterparts, European satellite news gathering (SNG) crews are furiously busy these days. Whether it is covering breaking news such as the recent Iraq War, political events […]

by Gerry Oberst This past July, the European Commission (EC) sponsored a plenary meeting in Brussels regarding the longstanding EC Satellite Action Plan (SAP). The EC initiated the SAP in […]

AsiaSat, the leading Asian satellite operator, has seen its revenues and profits drop in the first six months of 2003. Its revenues in the first half of 2003 were HK$456 […]

110.5ºE: Sinosat 1 D Followers of the banned Falun Gong cult are being blamed for another satellite jamming incident in China. On 12 and 13 August programmes from the state […]

The North American satellite landscape has dramatically changed with Intelsat securing a deal to acquire some of the Loral Space & Communications satellite assets. But, Loral has now confirmed that […]

By Keith Bernard Last month, two officials representing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held a press conference in Washington, D.C., outlining developments and upcoming activities for the […]

By Thomas Watts EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] continues to outpace the competition, as shown by its second quarter results. EchoStar’s DISH network added 270,000 net new subscribers in the quarter, […]

New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] continues to show healthy revenue numbers, which are above most analysts’ expectations. In its second quarter results announced on Aug. 12, the operator announced quarterly […]

Premiere, the German satellite pay-TV operator, added less than 100,000 net subscribers in the first six months of 2003. The operator continues to make slow progress towards profitability. By June […]

Week of Aug. 15 – 21, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Aug. 21 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.82 3.7 (18.3) […]

Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS), a division of Ascent Media Group, is teaming up with Intelsat to deliver Channel One Russia Worldwide Network (formerly known as Public Russian Television) from […]

SES Americom, the U.S. subsidiary of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], announced that Minneapolis-based Victory Sports has signed a multi-year agreement for C- band satellite bandwidth on AMC-4 for the distribution […]

Alpha Spacecom [OTC BB: ASPC] has signed an agreement with China Film Group (CFG) to create a satellite digital cinema and home distribution platform for major Western and domestic motion […]

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has received an authorization to proceed (ATP) on a navigation antenna for the Anik F1R spacecraft, currently in production at European manufacturer Astrium. A contract is […]

Frequency Electronics [AMEX: FEI] has been awarded a contract to develop a new family of frequency reference sources for multiple on-board satellite applications. Under the development contract, FEI will adapt […]

Star Choice Communications has unveiled a high-definition (HD) satellite receiver, the Motorola DSR500 HD, to serve the Canadian satellite TV market. Star Choice will be adding three new high-definition channels […]

The Optus C1 communications satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for SingTel Optus and the Australian Department of Defence under a contract with Mitsubishi Electric, has successfully completed a complex […]

DirecTV and EchoStar Communications [NYSE: DISH] have filed a lawsuit against Tennessee’s Commissioner of Revenue that challenges the sales tax imposed on direct broadcast satellite (DBS) customers. The sales tax […]

New York-based Loral Space and Communications’ financial performance slipped during the second quarter, reflecting a continuing deterioration of the company’s condition that led it to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy court […]

EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] is livening up the bankruptcy court auction for Loral’s North American satellite assets by making an informal proposal to top Intelsat’s $1 billion offer. Loral entered […]

By Leslie A. Taylor The 2003 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-03), concluded on July 4, reached a number of important decisions in the area of satellite communications, benefiting the industry as […]

Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [Toronto: MDA] is finding increased interest in environmental and agricultural data supplied by its RADARSAT-1 satellite. Richmond, B.C.-based MDA’s Geographic Information Products Group recently was […]

The average price difference between cable and satellite TV service has narrowed significantly over the past five years, with the average monthly expenditure for satellite service falling below cable for […]

McLean, Va.-based StarBand Communications, a high-speed, two-way satellite Internet provider, has undergone a revamping as it prepares to emerge from Chapter 11-bankruptcy court protection by year-end. The company recently filed […]

Norsat International [Nasdaq: NSAT], a provider of satellite products for high-speed data transmission, faces the same financial challenges that many satellite companies confront. One difference, however, is that the company […]

Week of Aug. 8 – 14, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Aug. 14 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.65 0.8 (30.1) […]

Power2Ship [OTC BB: PWRI.OB] has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with ARL to provide ARL’s 70 agents, operating 500 trucks, with a Power2Ship GPS/PDA device for each truck […]

iSECUREtrac Corp. [OTC BB: ISRE.OB], an Omaha, Neb.-based developer of global positioning systems (GPS) for tracking and monitoring, signed a stock swap deal with Tracking Systems, a Harrisburg, Pa.-based electronic […]