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Federico di Chio, the head of the digital terrestrial television (DTT) project at Mediaset, believes the breadth of the DTT offer could put pressure on direct to home (DTH) operator […]

Oslo, Norway-based Telenor Satellite Services will offer cut-rate phone calls to sailors during the upcoming holiday season to spur demand. The company, in tandem with satellite operator Inmarsat, is extending […]

Stratos Global Corp. today announced discounts to select maritime satellite terminals in an effort to attract customers from the fishing industry and other maritime users. The deal, called “Come Sail […]

JSAT, the Japanese satellite operator, is looking to boost revenues in China and other parts of Asia via a new alliance with Taiwan telco Teleport Access Service (TAS). JSAT and […]

Futron Corp. ranked International Launch Service‘s (ILS) Atlas V and Proton launch vehicles first and second, respectively, in its just-released Best Launch Service Study And Analysis report, based on interviews […]

NDS, a leading supplier of Conditional Access (CA) and interactive TV solutions to satellite pay-TV operators around the world, named Alexander Gersh its new CFO. Gersh replaces Rick Medlock, who […]

Charlestown, S.C.-based BellSouth [BLS], which recently added DirecTV service to create an enhanced offering of bundled services, announced today its customers in that Designated Market Area (DMA) now will be […]

Stratos Global Corp. inked a three-year contract worth about $9 million to install and support a StratosITek VSAT broadband data and voice communications system for approximately 60 GlobalSantaFe Corp. offshore […]

German satellite pay-TV operator Premiere announced a positive set of third-quarter results, underlining the operator’s strengthening position in the German pay-TV market. The operator saw total revenues for the nine […]

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV Inc. reached a five-year, $3.5 billion agreement with the National Football League to extend and expand the company’s exclusive rights to carry “NFL Sunday Ticket.” Under […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered on schedule the flight structure and key payload support equipment to Northrop Grumman for assembly of the first space vehicle in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency […]

Hellas Sat now has assumed full control of the Hellas-Sat 2 satellite. In an announcement today, SES Astra‘s Techcom Unit handed over control of the Hellas-Sat 2 satellite to the […]

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio, the largest U.S. satellite TV services provider with more than 2.5 million subscribers, will launch its college basketball programming starting Nov. 15. XM, the official […]

GlobeCast boosted its global distribution network by announcing three channels have joined the network. The deals are with Racing UK, The Wrestling Channel and Discovery Networks Europe. New horse-racing channel […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] reported $1.86 billion in revenues and $102 million in net income for the third quarter of 2004, compared with $1.45 billion in revenues and $35 million […]

The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built GPS IIR-13 satellite finally was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Nov. 6. The satellite joins the 29 other GPS satellites […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to launch its Swift observation spacecraft aboard a Boeing [BA] Delta II rocket Nov. 17 at 12:09 p.m. EST. The launch […]

Satellite Today has learned that India is expected to strike a deal with and invest in the European Union‘s Galileo satellite navigation project, but no amount of that investment has […]

Humax, a key consumer-electronics manufacturer, is launching a new range of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Integrated Digital Televisions (IDTVs) in the U.K. The LB26-T will be the first of the […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] said its U.S. subsidiary, Spacenet Inc., has added commercial-grade, hybrid VSAT/DSL services to its Connexstar family of broadband connectivity solutions. Spacenet’s expansion of its Connexstar […]

Cincinnati Bell and DirecTV [DTV] formed a strategic marketing alliance that will enable Cincinnati Bell to offer its residential customers DirecTV service along with its other telecom offerings. Cincinnati Bell […]

National Geographic an-nounced Friday that cutting-edge satellites and telescopes will enable contact to be made with extraterrestrial life sooner than many people expect. A television program detailing this prediction will […]

Many turnaround efforts are long on rhetoric and short on results but a little more than one year at the helm was all Norsat International [NII] CEO Cameron Hunter needed […]

The early returns from BellSouth’s [BLS] bundled service offering shows that its partnership with El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV is producing results. Creative marketing efforts by BellSouth and a new holiday […]

There have been a number of efforts undertaken to provide satellite broadband for the masses. However, many of them have fallen by the wayside due to the high capital cost […]

Vehicle-navigation and -monitoring technologies are finding an open road of opportunity. To this end, Delphi Electronics & Safety will co-develop and manufacture the next generation of transceiver modems for Dulles, […]

By Robert Bell Times in the teleport sector are changing fast. So are the companies and their owners. “There was a time when satellite carriers just leased transponders and teleport […]

As Europe gears up for a greater High-Definition Television (HDTV) future, consumer-electronics manufacturers are gearing up to provide the next generation of digital equipment in consumers’ homes. In particularly, HDTV […]

TV Cabo, the leading pay-TV provider in Portugal, is closing in on 400,000 Direct-to-Home (DTH) subscribers in that country. The operator reported 378,000 DTH subscribers at the end of the […]

U.K. telco BT is claiming a technology breakthrough in the satellite industry, which could have some serious ramifications for satellite operators. It has developed a satellite modulation technology it claims […]