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Direct-to-home operator Sky TV New Zealand is increasing the number of widescreen channels available to customers, as the National Geographic Channel will begin broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen in early April,...

ViaSat Inc. delivered a Ku-band satellite communications antenna kit to the U.S. Air Force that will be used on C-130 aircraft, the company announced March 16. The antenna enables use...

Iridium Satellite has appointed OTESAT-Maritel as an authorized service provider, Iridium announced March 16. A satellite communications equipment and services provider to the Greek and international maritime markets, OTESAT-Maritel is...

MobiTV has hired GlobeCast to manage content ingestion to support live-TV delivery to MobiTV’s mobile and broadband platforms in North America, GlobeCast announced March 18. GlobeCast will furnish constant channel...

Telesat Canada has signed a contract to aid in the launch of Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite, according to Vietnamese state news service TTXVN. Under the contract, signed in Ottawa March...

[3/19/07] Loral Space & Communications Inc. cut its net loss to $23 million in 2006, as revenues improved 27 percent to $797 million, the company announced March 15. In 2005,...

Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has created a new subsidiary, Premiere Sky, which will launch an eponymous programming package via satellite. Premiere Sky will hit the German market in September...

In a regular look at how satellite pay-TV operators are performing in Europe, Satellite News examines the most recent results of Europe’s leading DTH players, all of whom have announced...

Flexibility is the key to remaining viable in a changing market for video technologies, agreed a panel of experts speaking at the March 13 meeting of the Society of Satellite...

Bell ExpressVu, the Canadian DTH operator, is hoping it can maintain the pace in the Canadian digital TV market by bringing a number of potential new services to its customers....