Focus: Broadcasting

Solaris Mobile has launched EUR Radio – a new, free, pan-European digital satellite radio demonstration platform, which will serve the European Union region. Solaris Mobile announced the initiative today at […]

While the satellite industry is in many ways ‘a good news’ industry with stories of growth and opportunity in difficult economic times, this growth can also lead to problems. RF […]

Pace is confident that it will have a major DTH customer for its new range of advanced set-top boxes in the near future. It has already signed its first cable […]

Intelsat has signed two contracts with SkyStream, a Dubai-based provider of connectivity and satellite services solutions, for nearly 40 MHz of new C-band capacity on Intelsat 17, the operator announced […]

[Satellite News 09-12-11] Spacecom will return from the 2011 IBC convention in Amsterdam with a longer Eastern Europe customer list for capacity on its Amos satellite fleet. The operator signed […]

Scalable transport solutions provider Net Insight has partnered with Skyline Communications to allow Skyline’s DataMiner network management system to integrate with Net Insight’s Nimbra platform.    Scalable from small to […]

Bridge Technologies has launched a first complete solution for monitoring and analyzing DVB-T2 transmissions, with comprehensive support for the T2-MI stream format, the company announced Sept. 9.    The Bridge […]

Canal Plus Overseas has begun a migration to Thomson Video Networks (TVN) technology for its digital head-end serving Indian Ocean territories, Canal Plus announced Sept. 8.    Canal said the […]

Harmonic has introduced the Electra 9000 – a multi-codec, multi-format video encoder for broadcast, satellite, telco and cable operators, the company announced Sept. 7.    The Electra 9000 encoder delivers […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-12-11] Intelsat has contracted Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to build and deliver two high-power satellites that will provide DTH television service in Latin America, the FSS operator announced Sept. […]

The opportunities in Latin America are proving to be a hot talking point among the satellite community at IBC. The economic growth in countries like Brazil is at odds with […]

Telecom operators are becoming bigger believers in satellite technology. The advent of Ka-band satellites is prompting telcos, who previously had looked away from satellite, to re-assess the technology in terms […]

Intelsat has contracted Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to build and deliver two high-power satellites that will provide DTH television service in Latin America, the FSS operator announced Sept. 9.     Intelsat […]

Satellite operator SES unveiled its new brand identity, which focuses on the consistent use of the SES name and logo throughout its various global market segments, the company announced Sept. […]

MTG Viasat Broadcasting, a free- and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic States, selected Never.no’s Interactivity Suite (IS) and broadcast add-on to enable its partner, Harris RTX, to display […]

SoftAtHome, a software provider of home operating platforms, has collaborated with IPTV and OTT developer Huawei to create an end-to-end turnkey IPTV solution that enables operators to deploy services for […]

Video delivery solutions provider Sencore has introduced a new range of features and functionality for its contribution decoding services, the company announced Sept. 9.    Sencore said it is demonstrating […]

One of the major new satellite developments to happen during the past 12 months was Ka-band’s evolution from a concept to a reality in orbit. The bandwidth has taken off […]

Talia, a satellite voice and Internet service provider, known for its operations in Africa and the Middle East, is now targeting becoming part of the vibrant Latin American communications market […]

Liberty Global has unveiled Horizon, a wireless media entertainment platform that integrates cable- and web-based personal content on multiple screens and devices throughout the home, the company announced Sept. 8. […]

Spacecom has leased capacity to Croatia’s KLasik TV for video distribution on the AMOS satellite fleet located at the 4 degrees West orbital position, the satellite operator announced Sept. 8. […]

Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom has selected Ericsson to deploy and integrate a new IPTV platform that will deliver multi-screen interactive multimedia services to more than 900,000 subscribers, Chunghwa announced Sept. […]

Thomson Broadcast has rolled out its new Futhura Plus high-power television transmitter, designed to offer energy savings to broadcasters and a 50 percent improvement in efficiency over current standard transmitters […]

Teleport services provider SatLink Communications has introduced its new media analysis service, which aims to enable media companies to capture, monitor, collate and analyze their own and their competitions’ content […]

The pace of change in broadcasting is always stark when you attend an event like IBC, where the talk will undoubtedly center on the latest innovations in broadcasting such as […]

If 2010 was the year that saw 3-D TV start to enter the mainstream consciousness, 2011 is the year where DTH operators started to make good on their strategies in […]

GlobeCast has opened a new teleport and technical operations center in Rome to replace its previous facility, the company announced Sept. 6.    The new teleport was established to offer […]

The Al Jazeera Network has placed several orders with Newtec for its Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS) TV interactive terminals.    The MENOS all-IP solution, jointly operated by the […]

Amino Communications is set to demonstrate its over-the-top (OTT) IPTV set-top boxes at the IBC Trade Show.    The IPTV devices use both HLS live streaming and HTML5 formats to […]

Video delivery solutions provider Sencore has entered into a partnership and reseller agreement with Ecuadorian broadcast equipment distributor BPE Electronic.    BPE Electronic will act as Sencore’s exclusive reseller in […]