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The Satellite News Financial Ticker

Week of Jan. 9-15, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Jan. 15 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.74 (2.1) 6.6 22.9 15.1...

News Corp To Boost DirecTV

News Corp’s completion of its long-anticipated acquisition of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], its coveted satellite television unit DirecTV, and other subsidiaries offers a host of potential advantages for the combined...

XM, Sirius Fuel Growth Engines

The two U.S. satellite radio service providers, Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] and New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI], demonstrated last year that fierce head-to-head competition can be...

Making Sense of the UN's WSIS

By David Hartshorn GENEVA – The recent World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) – a United Nations initiative that aims to bridge the digital and knowledge divides — yielded...

Arianespace Makes Positive Start To 2004

Arianespace has started the year with two key launch contracts from Japanese satellite operator JSAT. Under the contract, Arianespace will launch the JCSAT-9 satellite and another future satellite. Commenting on...

Sirius CEO Defends Costly NFL Pact

The $220 million that Sirius Satellite Radio [NYSE: SIRI] agreed to pay to offer National Football League (NFL) games for the next seven years starting this fall should pay off...