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Sirius Plans Sale of Additional Stock

Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] announced Wednesday that it plans to sell an additional 75 million shares of common stock, depending on market conditions. Terms and pricing are to be...

New Skies CEO Expects Growth This Year

New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg believes his company will grow its revenues this year, despite the continuing tough market conditions. The Dutch satellite operator is targeting high...

Transponder Monitor

72 degreesE: PAS 4 D Feed traffic from/to ART’s Beirut bureau uses 11532 MHz vertical, SR 5632, FEC 3/4, VPID 308, APID 256, ID:’ART-BEIRUT’ in encoded MPEG-2. 12727 MHz vertical,...

Inforetech, Asian GPS Deal

Inforetech Wireless Technology [OTCBB: WYRE], a Vancouver, British Columbia-based supplier of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology for the golf industry, has concluded a five-year distribution agreement with Asian GPS Golf...

New Launch Date for Rosetta

The Rosetta comet exploration spacecraft, the launch of which was delayed due to problems with the Ariane 5 rocket, will now be sent to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov- Gerasimenko instead...

GlobeCast Signs Abu Dhabi

GlobeCast, a satellite transmission unit of France Telecom [NYSE: FTE], has signed a long-term agreement with Abu Dhabi TV – the satellite channel of Emirates Media – to provide satellite...

To The Multimedia Victor Go The Spoils

By Jimmy Schaeffler There’s another battle brewing in the seven-year-old U.S. satellite TV war between Direct TV and EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH]. That battle is the threatened U.S. invasion by...

Spain Gets Ready For Digital+

The Spanish pay-TV merger between rival satellite platforms Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) is expected to finally be completed this month. Via Digital will be integrated into Sogecable...