KKR Eyes PanAmSat Growth
The cost-cutting and restructuring that sometimes follows Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) acquisitions instead may be replaced by a cautious growth strategy upon completion of its planned purchase of...
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Broadcasters Draw Counter Punches
LAS VEGAS–Long-time National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President Edward Fritts used his powerful trade group’s annual meeting here last week to accuse the U.S. satellite radio operators of illegally offering...
NAB Shows Industry Responding To Hot Trends
By Paul Dykewicz, PBI Media LLC LAS VEGAS–The annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference is a good barometer of emerging hot trends and technological advances that will impact the...
Spotlight: Vatican Radio Goes Digital
Radio Vaticana, the voice of the Vatican, is the latest radio broadcaster to follow the ongoing trend to initiate a switch from analog to higher-quality digital transmissions. Radio Vaticana programs...
Multichannel TV Shows Stiff Competition
By Jimmy Schaeffler, The Carmel Group The North American multichannel market place has been a remarkably different place since DirecTV launched its first satellite on Dec. 17, 1993, and when...
NSS CEO Predicts FSS Ownership Rotation In 2004
New Skies Satellites [NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg was named chairman of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) earlier this month, and soon thereafter he gave an exclusive interview to Satellite...
The Satellite News Financial Ticker
Week of April 16 – 22, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol April 22 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year toDate Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.67 (13.5) (20.5)...
TCS Names Former Oracle Exec As VP/Network Solutions
Annapolis, Md.-based TeleCommunication Systems [TSYS] named former Oracle [ORCL] executive Michael D. Bristol as vice president for its Network Solutions Group. TCS provides professional services and secure wireless solutions to...
Parvis OrbiTrak PC/104 Receiver Provides GPS
Parvus Corp. unveiled the OrbiTrak 8R integrated GPS board for mobile and vehicular PC/104 embedded computer systems. Supporting both NMEA 0183 and TAIP ASCII protocols as well as binary TSIP...
Raytheon Tapped For Next-Gen MILSATCOM System
Raytheon Co. [RTN] won a contract from prime contractor Boeing [BA] to work on the next-generation MILSATCOM risk-reduction and system-definition program. The value to Raytheon potentially is $19.3 million during...