Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Digital+, a Spanish direct-to-home platform, has launched its first high-definition (HD) channel on satellite, operators SES Astra announced Feb. 8.     Canal+ HD, is being broadcast...

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Eutelsat has signed a deal with one of Germany’s biggest cable operators for a new digital platform in Germany, the satellite operator announced Feb. 7.    ...

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] KVH Industries Inc. posted revenues of $19.7 million in its 2007 fourth quarter, an increase of 13 percent of the same period a year ago, the...

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] EchoStar Corp. is among the companies that have agreed to invest $300 million into TerreStar Corp. to help fund the manufacturing and launch of TerreStar’s satellites,...

[Satellite News – 2-8-08] SatLink Communications, which launched a new MCPC (multi channel per carrier) platform on Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite Feb. 4, is hoping to deal with generate stronger revenues...

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable, has signed a contract with SES Americom to use 29 C-band transponders in the HD-Prime satellite network,...

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Spanish direct-to-home platform Digital+ added only 21,000 net subscribers in the fourth quarter to close 2007 with 2.1 million subscribers, the company announced Feb. 5.    ...

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Indian direct-to-home operator Tata Sky plans to introduce a personal video recorder (PVR) by the end of the year, the company announced Feb. 5.         The...

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Colombia’s Avianca Airlines will be installing Iridium value-added service provider Avionica’s Iridium-based satLink communications module on its fleet, Iridium announced Feb. 5.     Avionica’s satLink Iridium system...

[Satellite News 2-4-08] Verizon has surpassed 1 million customer barrier for its Fios IPTV service in the United States ramping up the pressure on its satellite and cable competitors.    ...