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The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) joined the Digital Transition Coalition, a group originally formed to help accelerate the transition to digital television in the United States. The SBCA...

Eutelsat, one of the world’s largest satellite operators, will partner with Europe Online, a satellite broadband network services provider, to combine their satellite broadband Internet networks, operations, services and customers....

All preparations have been completed for the July 12 launch of Anik F2, a Boeing-built [BA] high-power satellite that will deliver North America’s first commercial satellite-based consumer broadband communications service....

Intelsat Ltd. reduced its workforce by between 40 and 50 jobs last week as part of an ongoing restructuring to realign its costs with revenues while advancing its search for...

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...