European DVR Deployments Advancing Rapidly
IMS Research estimates that by the end of 2005, more than 2.6 million households in Europe were using a digital video recorder (DVR). By 2010, this market is forecast to...
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XM Adds Oprah To Lineup
XM Satellite Radio signed an three-year, $55 million agreement to carry content provided by Oprah Winfrey’s radio company, XM announced Feb. 9. Under the agreement with Harpo Radio Inc., XM...
SATELLITE 2006 Sets Record With Attendance, Exhibiting Companies
From Feb. 6-9 in Washington, D.C., The SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition played host to more than 7,400 attendees and 245 exhibiting companies. Held annually by Via Satellite magazine and...
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Satellites Support Businesses Working For Sustainable Development
The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun working with several large multinational businesses to integrate satellite data into the companies’ corporate sustainable development (CSD) efforts, ESA announced. The practice of...
Skylogic Wins Tuscany Deal
Eutelsat subsidiary Skylogic Italia won a contract to provide satellite broadband access to public administrators in Tuscany, Italy. Under the contract awarded by the region of Tuscany, Skylogic will provide...
Alcatel Alenia Space Provides Ground Segment Cosmo- Skymed
Alcatel Alenia Space will provide the Defense User Ground Segment for the Cosmo-Skymed earth observation program to the French Ministry of Defense, Alcatel announced. The 32 million Euro ($38.3 million)...
International Datacasting's Profline B.V. Operations Wins Network Upgrade Contract
International Datacasting Corp. announced yesterday at the SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., that ProfLine B.V., their wholly owned subsidiary and base of operations in Europe, received a...
Globecomm Systems Announced Record Growth
Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced the company’s fiscal 2006 second quarter increased 2.3 percent to a record $29.9 million, compared to $29.2 million...
EuroNews Gains 20
NTU, the Ukrainian public broadcaster, has become a shareholder in EuroNews. It has become the 20th shareholder of EuroNews with its acquisition of 1 percent of share capital in SECEMIE...
BSkyB Announces New Executive Roles
BSkyB, the U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, has restructured some key management roles as it targets 10 million DTH customers in 2010. The new roles have been created as Sky looks...