Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] Faizan Productions has signed a lease agreement with Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S to broadcast “Madani”, a religious channel, […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] European satellite radio company Ondas Media, has entered into a commercial agreement with Renault to install satellite receivers in Renault vehicles and its affiliates across Europe, Ondas […]

[Satellite Today 05-12-09] Dish Network reported a 21 percent increase in its first quarter earnings, released May 11, at $312.7 million, up from $258.6 million in 2008. The company’s revenue […]

[Satellite News 05-12-09] Dish Network reported a 21 percent increase in its first quarter earnings to $312.7 million, the satellite pay-TV operator announced May 11. Dish reported revenues of $258.6 […]

[Satellite Today 05-12-09] Ensequence, an interactive television company, has been chosen by Welsh broadcaster S4C to create and deploy interactive television services for U.K.-based subscribers of Freeview digital terrestrial TV […]

[Satellite Today 05-11-09] Crawford Satellite Services extended its fiber network, supporting Crawford Connect, with live connectivity via Studio-on-Main, in Columbia, S.C., the company announced.     With the new national and […]

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] Wegener released its MicroCasting solution, a satellite-delivered radio localization service that tailors national programming to local markets, the company announced.     The company also is promoting its […]

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] Optisat has released its S2-S receiver satellite unit, a product that combines DVB-S2 satellite front-end with DVB-ASI and GbE IP outputs, the company announced May 6.     […]

[Satellite News 05-06-09] End-to-end broadcasting solutions provider Harmonic suffered heavy losses in its 2009 first quarter financial report, the company announced May 5.     CFO Robin Dickson said the 22 […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] The Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) will run a U.S. corporation, Universal Space Network (USN), as a subsidiary after the U.S. government approved SSC’s acquisition of USN with […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] End-to-end broadcasting solutions provider, Harmonic, said it suffered heavy losses in its 2009 first quarter financial report released May 5.     The company’s CFO, Robin Dickson attributed […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and MediaQuest are developing a high-definition (HD) direct-to-home (DTH) offering for commercial release in 2009, PLDT announced in its first […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] DirecTV will merge with its majority shareholder, Liberty Entertainment, in an effort to consolidate Liberty’s broadcasting and programming units, the companies announced May 4.     The new […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] Bezeq Israel Telecom will merge with Israeli satellite TV provider Yes, the companies announced May 4.     The conditions of agreement require Bezeq to raise its investment […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Bell Canada is proposing a Freesat digital TV service to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the company announced April 29.    Bell said believes the […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Giga-Com, a supplier of satellite and terrestrial microwave systems to the media and broadcast industries, has fulfilled a contract for the manufacture, integration and supply of 20 […]

Throughout the past few years, the names of major software companies quietly have crept into more and more satellite-related business developments. Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Apple are just a […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] BSkyB has reached 1 million high-definition (HD) subscribers according to the company’s first quarter results released April 30.     BSkyB said it reached its milestone after adding […]

A time-honored inside joke gets played out each year the Friday afternoon we close up SATELLITE. Show director Jennifer Heinold tapes shut the last box of office supplies, eyeballs the […]

As technological advances in space and on Earth lead to a new generation of handheld receivers, the prospect of mobile satellite services (MSS) breaking into the consumer mass market with […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] France Telecom‘s earnings fell 4.4 percent due to costs associated with buying programming for its new television services in France, the company announced in its first-quarter financial […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] NDS signed a contract with DoxTV, a value-added service provider in China, to bring digital TV services and Video-on-Demand to the country and provide an end-to-end suite […]

[Satellite Today 04-29-09] NeuLion Inc. launched iTVRSN, an IPTV network for Romanian audiences in North America, the company announced April 28.     The set-top-box service provides viewers with a selection […]

[Satellite News 04-29-09] SES Americom has added six high-definition (HD) channels from MTV networks to its HD-Prime distribution platform, bringing the total number of HD channels delivered by SES platforms […]

[Satellite Today 04-29-09] Dish Network named Bernie Han COO, the company announced April 27.     Han will oversee Dish Network’s operations, information technologies and finance functions. Han formerly served as […]

Dolby Laboratories partnered with Arqiva to launch Dolby Direct Distribution Services, a European satellite content delivery network for digital cinemas, Arqiva announced April 27.     The service uses Arqiva’s international […]

While floor traffic at NAB 2009 was better-than-expected for the IPTV sector, the show has been a continuation of a trend that leaves IPTV under-delivered and over-exposed, according to a […]

This year’s NAB show was the first that I have attended and both my feet and my organizational skills are still in recovery mode. While carrying several bags full of […]

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Zcom Networks finalized an agreement with TIN Network for the North American broadcast launch of Zcom’s Smart Money Network channel via satellite, Internet and fiber optic transmission, […]

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Telekom Austria TA launched a satellite global service package for international Internet service providers and government organizations, the company announced April 27.     The service bundle has […]