Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV platform in the United Kingdom, is now in 1.7 million homes, which represents around 6 percent of U.K homes. According to […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Sirius XM Radio has announced the appointment of James E. Meyer as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Meyer has served as the interim CEO since December. He […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Modern Times Group MTG has announced that Viasat Broadcasting, which comprises MTG’s television broadcasting operations, will make its Viasat Premium HD package available to Mobile TeleSystems OJSC […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Advantech Wireless has announced the release of its new Direct to Home (DTH) solution: the new Sapphire Series 600W Ku-Band UltraLinearTM GaN SSPA/BUC.       Featuring high […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] OSN, a pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, has partnered with ABS-CBN, one of the largest Filipino TV networks in the world, to bring […]

Iraq has accused 10 satellite channels, including Al Jazeera, of airing "misleading and exaggerated" coverage of recent fighting and "promoting violence."

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) revenues continue to decline. The operator reported revenues of 237 million Norwegian Kroner ($40.46 million) in the first three months of this year, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-13] SES has announced that 22 percent of all TV households (or 3.7 million homes) in Ukraine in 2012 receive TV directly from satellites. The numbers are a […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] SES and Eutelsat Communications have both made key Ultra-HD (4K) announcements in the last 24 hours. Eutelsat revealed it was teaming up with leading Turkish pay-TV provider, […]

A new report from Digital TV Research indicates that the digital TV penetration in Latin America is about to shoot up.

Dish Network’s proposed deal for just under $26 billion to acquire Sprint Nextel (Sprint) is potentially a huge transformative deal on the U.S. communications landscape, which has direct implications to the satellite industry.

DISH Network Corporation has announced its intentions to acquire the third largest wireless carrier in the United States.

RigNet, a provider of managed remote communications solutions to the oil and gas industry, has announced it has entered into a global value-added reseller agreement with SnapTV AS, a Norwegian specialist in maritime and offshore infotainment and collaborative media.

The Over-The-Top (OTT) video market is now worth over $8 billion, according to the latest research by ABI Research. Major markets such as America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific have experienced year-on-year growth in excess of 50 percent in 2012. Is the strong growth in this market ultimately going to impact the satellite market?

GlobeCast Americas has expanded its solution-building capabilities in the continent with three strategic appointments to sales positions.

MEASAT Satellite Systems has announced an agreement with Martial Arts Networks to distribute the Martial Arts TV HD channel via the MEASAT-3a satellite.

TV Integração, the first Brazilian affiliate of TV Globo, has deployed Thomson Video Networks' ViBE CP6000 contribution platform and RD5000 MPEG-2/4 receiver decoder to provide video contribution services to more than 5.4 million viewers.

RRsat Global Communications Network has announced the launch of a new content management and distribution solution that enables major international broadcasters to reach cable headends and direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasting in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Eurochannel, an international TV channel dedicated to European films and series, has selected the Eutelsat 16A satellite to broadcast its signal across sub-Saharan Africa.

[Satellite TODAY 04-09-13] Via Satellite has launched its first dedicated edition for Asia. The issue will be distributed at the Asia Pacific Operators Summit (APOS) hosted by Media Partners Asia […]

ATEME has announced that Turner Broadcasting has used ATEME's Kyrion CM5000 encoder in its dual channel version for remote production.

RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, has announced several changes to the company's operational leadership team.

he compression market is heating up ahead of NAB with the main technology vendors making a flurry of announcements as they look to meet the needs of broadcasters and DTH players.

Ericsson has launched a new high-performance compression platform for the delivery of TV services over all networks.

GlobeCast Asia has selected Ideal Systems Singapore to design and build a new state-of-the-art multichannel broadcast facility in Singapore's emerging media city Mediapolis@one-north. The new GlobeCast facility will be located at a Infinite Studios building, which is a 10-story purpose-built structure with more than 24,000 square meters.

During its first participation at the CABSAT 2013 conference, My-HD Media, a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region television platform that offers a single viewing card solution for High Definition (HD) channels, announced a long-term strategic partnership with Arabsat.

Georgian media company JSC Global Contact Consulting has signed a multi-year lease with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the Eutelsat 36B satellite.

Georgian media company JSC Global Contact Consulting has signed a multi-year lease with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the Eutelsat 36B satellite.

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] The SATELLITE 2013 conference and exhibition is set to kick off Monday, March 18 with full-day pre-conference sessions focusing on the industry’s latest technical and engineering challenges. […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-14-13] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has signed a satellite transmission agreement with Neterra, a new direct-to-home (DTH), white-label, shared platform, called “the W1”, that offers pay-tv services in […]