Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 03-10-11] Technicolor received a binding offer to sell its Thomson Video Networks (TVN) business to the Fonds de Consolidation et de Développement des Entreprises (FCDE) capital development fund […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-10-11] SatLink Communications is upgrading its occasional-use capabilities by adding HD DVB-S2 feeds and other technologies to its facilities, the company announced March 9.     The company’s HD DVB-S2 […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-07-11] Romanian telco RomTelecom has agreed to acquire DTH operator Boom TV in a deal that represents a significant consolidation of the Romanian DTH market, RomTelecom announced […]

[Satellite News 03-08-11] Cisco Systems launched its Internet Router in Space (IRIS) program on the Intelsat 14 satellite when the spacecraft was orbited in November 2009.      The router’s configuration, […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-04-11] AsiaSat has launched a new DVB-S2 DTH radio and television platform in Australia and New Zealand, the operator announced March 23.     Taiwanese broadcaster Teleport Access Services […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-11] Spanish broadcaster Starmax HD has contracted GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to households across Spain, GlobeCast announced March […]

The BBC strives to be cutting edge in providing services to households throughout the United Kingdom. The broadcaster made the move to HD long before many broadcasters and is formulating […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-01-11] Deutsche Telekom (DT) has signed a deal with SES Astra to combine Astra`s satellite free-TV offer, including HD Plus, with its IPTV product Entertain Sat, DT […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Ericsson has unveiled its Voyager 2 scalable satellite newsgathering product to meet growing consumer demand for HD news services, the company announced Feb. 28.    Voyager 2, […]

[Satellite News 03-01-11] About 42 percent of the 37 million IP-enabled, hybrid set-top boxes shipped worldwide in 2010 were satellite-enabled, according to a Feb. 28 report from IMS Research.     […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-28-11] Sky Deutschland added more than 130,000 subscribers in its 2010 fourth quarter to end the year with nearly 2.7 million subscribers in Germany and Austria, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-28-11] Liberty Global’s 2010 fourth-quarter profits fell 43 percent to $57.5 million from $100 million in the same period last year due to weaker tax benefits and losses […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-25-11] Media content protection and value-added service technology firm Kudelski Group reported a 7.6 percent increase in total revenues and operating income for its 2010 full-year fiscal period, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-25-11] Australian satellite pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar reported disappointing subscriber growth in 2010 due to the challenging market environment created by the economic recession, the companies […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-24-11] The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) named GE Satellite President and CEO Andrew Jordan to the CASBAA board, the broadcasting association announced Feb. 23. […]

[Satellite News 02-24-11] In 2009, Showtime Arabia and Orbit merged and created a join platform, OSN, now the dominant pay-TV service in the Middle East.     Under the direction of […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-24-11] DirecTV‘s fourth quarter 2010 revenues increased 11 percent to $6.62 billion compared to the same period in 2009, which helped the company generate net profits of […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-23-11] Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) has approved a 3-D TV delivery system specification for frame compatible plano-stereoscopic 3-D services, the broadcasting consortium announced Feb. 22.     The system […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] Harmonic released its Omneon MediaPort 7000 series of video I/O modules for its Omneon Spectrum media server system, Harmonic announced Feb. 22.    The single, configurable MediaPort […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) has launched the SBCA Foundation to place emphasis on health, welfare and education projects that benefit specific communities and populations […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings (CSR) shareholders have approved the merger of XM Canada with Sirius Canada, which would combine the country’s two satellite subscriber radio services, XM […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-18-11] Thaicom reported a 38 percent increase in revenues for its IPStar business in its fiscal 2010 year, with revenues from its Internet and media businesses also […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Microwave systems and components supplier Luso Electronics introduced two high-power, Ku-and C-band redundant combiner assemblies (RCAs), the company announced Feb. 16.     Luso’s RCAs facilitate automatic redundancy […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-17-11] Mobile carrier trade group CTIA and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have proposed spectrum incentive auctions that could raise up to $2.3 billion for U.S. TV […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Video delivery solutions provider Sencore entered into a partnership agreement with Sistemas Digitales in Mexico City to represent and support Sencore’s full line of broadcast products across […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Globecomm Systems completed its satellite uplink hub for Televisa at its Mexico City broadcast center, Globecomm announced Feb. 16.     The hub was designed by Globecomm under […]

  [Satellite TODAY Insider 02-16-11] The Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting proposed an increase to its foreign investment caps to help support satellite broadcasters’ efforts to digitize their networks, […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-16-11] Sirius XM Radio‘s full-year 2010 revenues were $2.82 billion – a 14 percent increase from its year-end total in 2009, the company announced in its latest financial […]

[Satellite News 02-16-11] Croatia’s T-Hrvatski Telecom is using satellite capacity from the three transponders it leased from Eutelsat in January to extend the reach of its MAXtv pay-TV service. T-Hrvatski […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-11] Sky-Stream, a Dubai-based connectivity and satellite service solutions provider, launched a satellite IP-TV streaming service over the iDirect TDMA platform, iDirect announced.     The service, powered by […]