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Echostar Communications Corp. reported total revenue of $2.18 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2005, a 12.8 percent increase from the $1.93 billion for the corresponding period in 2004. […]

OpenTV, which supplies middleware and other interactive solutions to satellite pay-TV operators worldwide, has seen some strong growth in overall revenues. This was one of the highlights as the company […]

ViaSat Inc. finalized March 14 a $13.8 million subcontract modification with The Boeing Company for the Family of Advanced Beyond-line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) program. As part of the Boeing team, ViaSat […]

Stratos Global Corp., a global communications provider and distributor of Inmarsat satellite services, announced March 14 it won a National Individual Standing Offer (NISO) awarded by the Canadian Department of […]

Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS) announced March 14 that Peter Brickman has been named managing director of content distribution for North America by AMNS COO Margaret Craig, to whom Brickman […]

Glowlink announced March 14 the rollout of a geolocation product with integrated interference detection and monitoring capability. Targeted for the satellite communications market, the new product can detect interference or […]

Gilat Satellite Networks won a key contract in Latin America in terms of boosting education resources to classrooms in Mexico. The company announced March 14 that a consortium of leading […]

Panamsat Corp. has made an equity investment in Pegaso Banda Ancha, which provides Internet connectivity throughout Mexico, Panamsat announced March 13. Pegaso Banda Ancha, launched by Grupo Pegaso in February […]

High-definition (HD) channel provider Euro1080 has begun broadcasting HDTV footage of the Winter Olympics, the company announced. Euro1080 will use Astra, Sirius, Eutelsat and more than 35 cable and Internet […]

Com Dev International Ltd. recorded revenues of Cdn. $32.7 million ($28.2 million) in its 2005 first quarter, up 7.5 percent from revenues of Cdn. $30.4 million ($26.2 million) in the […]

Telesat Canada set records for full-year revenues and earnings, reporting a profit of Cdn. $88.9 million ($76.6 million) in 2005, as revenues jumped 31 percent to Cdn. $474.7 million ($409 […]

Euronews announced the appointment of Eurochannel as its exclusive representative for South America. Eurochannel’s mission will be to extend the distribution network of the multi language news channel across the […]

Arianespace kicked off its 2006 launch calendar with an Ariane 5 ECA placing a pair telecommunications satellites in orbit March 11. The Spainsat governmental telecommunications spacecraft and the Eutelsat Hot […]

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd awarded Panamsat Corp. a $44.2 million contract to oversee the launch of the Measat 1R satellite, Measat announced March 10. The spacecraft will be launched […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. will begin development of a constellation of Earth observation satellites under a Cdn. $7 million contract ($6 million) from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the […]

U.K. cable operator Telewest has launched high-definition (HD) service as it looks to get a jump on similar plans from satellite operator BSkyB. The service is available to more than […]

XM Satellite Radio must use advertising on music channels owned by Clear Channel Communications, XM revealed in a March 3 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Clear Channel, […]

Advantech Advanced Microwave Technologies Inc. completed the acquisition of the Satellite Networks group from EMS Technologies Inc., the companies announced March 9. Advantech, based in Montreal, manufactures satellite and terrestrial […]

Panamsat Holding Corp. recorded a profit of $72.7 million in 2005, rebounding from a loss of $79 million in 2004, the company announced March 9. The 2004 loss was impacted […]

Miranda Technologies Inc. announced March 9 that Alsumaria TV, Iraq’s leading satellite television channel, has taken delivery of a master control and channel branding processor and a master control panel […]

Arabsat 4A, left in a wrong orbit during a Feb. 28 launch anomaly, can still be delivered into a usable orbit, Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency, said. […]

The digital satellite set-top box market, the largest of the digital TV set-top box markets, reached 65 million units in 2005 and is projected to grow to 79 million units […]

SES Astra has teamed up with conditional access (CA) vendor Nagravision, as SES Astra gets ready to launch digital TV services in Germany. Nagravision will provide an end-to-end, turnkey CA […]

Raytheon Co. has achieved in-orbit acquisition and data transfer via the U.S. Milstar satellite constellation with the company’s Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical-Terminal, Advanced Extremely High Frequency, Raytheon announced. This […]

Com Dev International Ltd. announced March 8 that it won contracts by Northrop Grumman to begin production of beam select subsystems and switch assemblies for use in the third Advanced […]

Mobile Satellite Services provider Inmarsat plc posted revenues of $491.1 million in 2005, up from revenues of $480.7 in 2004, driven by growth in providing services to the maritime sector, […]

Arianespace moved its Ariane 5 ECA to the launch pad in preparation for a scheduled March 9 launch of a pair of spacecraft, Arianespace announced. The mission with place Hisdesat’s […]

Landmark Aviation signed an agreement to distribute Arinc‘s high-speed satellite broadband communications systems for business aircraft, Arinc announced March 8. Landmark, a provider of business aviation services, will sell and […]

Gulfsat Communications Co. will use ViaSat‘s Linkstar broadband network to provide shared hub network services, ViaSat announced. Gulfsat will use the Linkstar network to provide networking and Internet services to […]

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems will supply mobile satellite communications equipment to Arabic TV station MBC TV to boost the station’s live news coverage in the Middle East. MBC broadcasting stations will […]