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New Skies Satellites BV announced Oct. 25 an expanded, multi-satellite agreement with Services Sound and Vision Corp. (SSVC), under which the organizations would create a new multi-channel television service designed...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sent a second request for information to Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co. regarding the formation of the Untied Launch Alliance (ULA) joint venture. The companies...

Sirius Satellite Radio will launch Nov. 1 a channel dedicated to the music of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The channel will feature music from the entire Springsteen...

Iridium Satellite LLC announced Oct. 24 a 35 percent discount on crew calls placed with prepaid scratch cards on major holidays, as well as the first day of each month...

Conditions are right for the ascendancy of high-definition television (HDTV) over its analog counterpart, according to Bryan Burns, vice president, strategic business planning and development at ESPN Productions. Citing statistics...

Two major pay-TV operators in Australia said that subscription television will be 100 percent digital in the country in less than two years. Austar CEO John Porter and Foxtel CEO...

Path 1 Network Technologies Inc. will launch a pair of new products to support its strategy for using the public Internet infrastructure for broadcast video contribution. The Vx8000 2.0, a...

Encore Networks received a contract from Satellite Communication Technology Ltd. (SCT) to provide satellite connectivity at construction sites, Encore announced Oct. 24. SCT deployed Encore’s VSR-30 router for European construction...

Israel’s ECI Telecom received a contract from Intelsat to provide components for a communications backbone in the Washington, D.C. area, ECI announced Oct. 24. ECI will provide its XDM Multi-Service...

World Communications Center (WCC) said Oct. 24 the state of Alaska renewed its contract with WCC to supply satellite communications services for state government and agencies. WCC said it received...