Showtime Unveils 'Movietime' Channel
Showtime, the biggest satellite pay-TV operator in the Middle East, announced it would begin carrying a new movie channel in early March. The channel, called “Movietime,” boosts to 17 the...
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Trimble Supplies UNAVCO With GPS Systems
Trimble [TRMB], a Sunnyvale Calif.-based provider of GPS technology, is going to supply UNAVCO with Global Positioning System (GPS) reference station receivers for at least the next five years. Financial...
ViaSat Wins Intralot Contract For Nebraska Lottery Communications
ViaSat [VSAT], a Carlsbad, Calif.-based producer of satellite communications, has been awarded a contract by Athens-based gaming company Intralot to provide secure lottery communications applications in Nebraska. Financial terms were...
ChinaSAT Deploys Vyyo Solutions
China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite (ChinaSAT) has deployed Vyyo wireless broadband in Haikou, the capital of Hainan. Whan Research Institute, one of Vyyo’s system integrators, handled the installation. Haikou, located in...
Arianespace Flight 158 Postponed Again
France-based satellite launch service Arianespace has delayed flight 158 again, this time by several days due to a minor anomaly observed on the thermal protection of the main cryogenic stage...
Sirius To Provide Traffic and Weather Service
Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], a New York City-based satellite-radio provider, will offer around-the-clock traffic and weather reports for the top 20 markets. The reports will begin Feb. 29 with New...
Arianespace Postpones Rosetta Mission One Day Due To Weather
Arianespace‘s Flight 158 scheduled for today was postponed until Friday due to “wind conditions at altitude” affecting the Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The mission is to carry Europe’s Rosetta...
Gilat Clears Way To Acquire Remaining rStar Shares
Petah Tikva, Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF], completed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review process to let the company acquire all the shares of rStar common stock that...
VOOM Lineup Grows To More Than 30 HD Channels and 70-plus Channels Overall
Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, the satellite division of Cablevision Systems [CVC], announced that the channel lineup for its VOOM service now includes four HBO and Cinemax channels in high-definition (HD),...
Tandberg Scores Exclusive Deal With GlobeCast For 2004 Olympic Games
Southampton, U.K.-based GlobeCast, a satellite services company, has chosen Tandberg Television as its broadcast equipment provider of choice for this summer’s Olympic games in Athens. Tandberg, a provider of open...