Author: Staff Writer

Via Satellite magazine, sister publication to Satellite News, named iDirect Technologies President and CEO John Kealey as the 2004 satellite executive of the year. “Kealey materializes a business practice that...

Multichoice, a pay-TV provider announced that MTV Base, the first pan-African music channel, was launched on its DStv platform. The channel will be broadcast via satellite to 48 countries in...

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) recently offered its satellite-based communications services to help Intel Corp. show off its latest Centrino mobile technology platform. Intel has been hosting a series of demonstration...

The satellite industry has launched an initiative that seeks to streamline earth station type-approvals procedures through the endorsement of a global standard and the expansion of an industry-authorized network of...

Gilat Satellite Networks Chairman and CEO Shlomo Rodav is confident the company can increase its overall revenues in 2005 and that the company can soon return to profitability. Gilat has...

By Robert Bell Pier du Plessis is South African by birth and a turnaround artist by trade. With a background in sales, marketing, finance and accountancy, he worked for several...

In what is a continuation of its trend to build a strong content offering, Sirius Satellite Radio announced last week that it signed an agreement giving the company exclusive North...

Space Systems/Loral announced it completed all assembly, integration and tests of the DirecTV 8 satellite more than two months ahead of the contracted schedule. The DirecTV 8 satellite, built for...

Digital+, the direct-to-home (DTH) platform in Spain, announced a subscriber growth for the first time in a number of quarters. At the end of December 2004, the operator had more...

Modulus Video said it opened a new office in Tokyo, Japan to support the growing demand from satellite, telecommunications and cable service providers for MPEG-4 AVC video encoding systems. Broadcast...