Focus: Broadcasting

By Peter J. Brown The movie industry is waking up to the fact that satellite-based distribution today represents a viable alternative to the old way of distributing films. When it...

SES Americom‘s new Internet-protocol (IP) TV service promises "a front-row seat to the next phase of video technology" for more than 30 programmers and networks that have signed deals to...

DTV Lost amid widely published speculation last week that Rupert Murdoch might divest his interests in DirecTV were definitive answers about what such a move would mean to the satellite...

The market for set-top boxes (STB) that combine Internet Protocol (IP) and direct broadcast service functionality is growing, and Michael Arden, an analyst with ABI Research believes satellite pay-TV operators...

DirecTV and Echostar have nearly 30 million subscribers in the U.S. between them. While they continue to trail established cable competitors in total subscribers, the two satellite operators also must...

Internet Pro-tocol (IP) TV and high-definition (HD) TV and their potential impact on the satellite industry and telecommunications world as a whole were among the hot topics at the International...

There have been some significant events throughout the past few months in the direct-to-home (DTH) market in Europe. A number of pay-TV operators have launched high-definition (HD) services as they...

When a corporation has multiple projects underway simultaneously, and those projects are spread out around the globe, having an advanced network in place that can disseminate a wide range of...

An increasing number of organizations are discovering that the only way to guarantee their communication systems stay online during times of crisis is to employ satellite backup systems to their...

By Peter Brown More than 800 emergency response and technical support personnel along with two dozen or so satellite-equipped vehicles descended on San Diego in late August for the Strong...