Loral Names Schwartz's Successor
Michael Targoff has been elected CEO of Loral Space & Communications, replacing the retiring Bernard Schwartz, the company announced Feb. 2. Targoff has served as vice chairman of Loral’s board...
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Intersat Provides Digitalglobe Imagery to Brazilian Telecommunications Company
Intersat, the Brazil-based partner of Digitalglobe, has provided satellite imagery to South America’s largest telecommunications operator, Digitalglobe announced Feb. 1. Telemar will use the high-resolution imagery from Digitalglobe’s Quickbird satellite...
Dish Network and Lifetime Entertainment Services Reach Agreement
Echostar Communications Corp. and Lifetime Entertainment Services announced Feb. 1 that they have reached a multi-year agreement that will return Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network to the Dish Network....
BSkyB Doubles Sky+ Households
U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, BSkyB ended 2006 with slightly less than 8.1 million subscribers, with net subscriber growth of 215,000 in the fourth quarter, the company announced. BSkyB has also...
EADS Astrium-ISRO Team To Build Eutelsat W2M Satellite
Eutelsat Communications awarded a contract to build the W2M communication satellite to a partnership of EADS Astrium and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Eutelsat announced Feb. 1. W2M will...
Schwartz To Step Down As Head Of Loral
Bernard Schwartz, chairman and CEO of Loral Space & Communications Inc., will retire effective March 1, the company announced. Loral spokeswoman Jeanette Clonan said a replacement would be announced Feb....
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Telesat To Use ViaSat Broadband System For Education In Colombia
ViaSat (www.viasat.com) said it is supplying its Surfbeam broadband satellite network to Telesat (www.telesat.ca), enabling Telesat customers in Colombia to provide Internet access to schools and other projects. Telesat customers...
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EMS Satcom To Deliver Search And Rescue System To Venezuela
EMS Satcom (www.emssatcom.com), a division of EMS Technologies Inc., said that Venezuela’s Insituto National de Aviacion Civil awarded EMS Satcom a $2.9 million contract for the company’s search and rescue...
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Editor's Note: Ergen May Not Sell, But Such Developments Must Be Noticed
Facing mounting competition from cable and telecom companies, it is no surprise that industry rumors resurfaced that AT&T may buy Echostar outright rather than merely reselling the satellite television company’s...
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Great Circle Shipping Equips Fleet With Iridium Communications System
Great Circle Shipping (www.preciousshipping.com), a Bangkok-based ship management company, is fitting 34 of its bulk cargo carriers with Thrane & Thrane’s maritime Iridium terminals under a service contract with Singapore...