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A migration to advanced encoding solutions looms. To what solution and exactly when this might happen are the questions of the moment. Stunning results at lower bit rates have started […]

Benjamin Franklin once said, in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. If he were alive today, he may have added that nothing is certain but death, taxes […]

by Peter J. Brown Given what is at stake and the magnitude of what is unfolding at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) with respect to the […]

by Gerry Oberst Policymakers in Brussels and elsewhere in Europe are focusing on spectrum trading as a way to make more efficient and flexible use of radio frequencies. European satellite […]

The Boeing Company [BA] announced the sale of Boeing Digital Cinema assets to Access Integrated Technologies [AIX] of Morristown, N.J. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems sold the digital cinema equipment assets, […]

The World Broadcasting Unions International Satellite Operations Group (WBU-ISOG) unanimously approved a set of Universal Access Procedures (UAP) for all satellite uplinks, aimed at significantly reducing satellite interference. The WBU-ISOG […]

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] officials said today the company has signed an agreement with Microspace Communications to broadcast video, audio and data content throughout Latin America from its NSS-806 […]

Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS] executives said today the company signed a contract with PanAmSat to migrate PanAmSat’s three Boeing Satellite System 702 birds from their current ground control software system […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] said the U.S. Navy Space and Warfare Command exercised a production option on its contract with Raytheon. The pact calls for Raytheon to produce 41 extra-high-frequency satellite […]

The European Union reached an agreement for Israel to participate in building the Galileo global navigation system to rival the U.S.-based Global Positioning System (GPS). Financial terms were not disclosed. […]

NDS said it successfully completed the first phase of systems integration for Foxtel Digital in Australia. Foxtel launched its new digital TV service — Foxtel Digital — March 14, and […]

Richard Halka, the executive vice president and CFO of Stratos Global Corp. [SGB], is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. In his absence, Paula Sturge, the company’s vice president […]

Dulles, Va.-based ORBIMAGE, a remote sensing company that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection Dec. 31, 2003, received a 22-month ClearView contract worth at least $27.6 million to provide […]

Boeing [BA] once again has been selected to launch a satellite for DigitalGlobe to support the Colo.-based company’s expanding space-imaging business. The first opportunity occurred in October 2001, when Boeing […]

PBI Media’s Satellite and Defense Groups invite you and your team to a 90-minute Teleconference on April 20 that will feature key developments, such as those in the news items […]

Arianespace, CNES (French National Space Agency) and the European Space Agency (ESA) combined to share the 2004 Space Achievement Award given by the Colo.- based Space Foundation. The ceremony, held […]

Northern Sky, an Orlando-based satellite consulting and research firm, released a new report that predicts a receptive market response to DVB-S2, the satellite broadcast and communication industry’s second-generation digital modulation […]

WorldSpace Satellite Radio officials named Hamza Farooqui as managing director of WorldSpace South Africa. He will be responsible for driving the growth of WorldSpace Satellite Radio service in the African […]

San Jose, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturer Atmel [ATML] and Paris-based Parrot, a voice technologies company released the Parrot4 chipset to support in-vehicle Global Positioning System (GPS) and GSM/GPRS services. The new […]

Week of March 19 – 25, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol March 25 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.07 (6.3) (11.9) […]

Globecast is aiming to boost its revenues from Asia, the goal being to eventually grow its Asian segment to 20 percent of the company’s total. Indeed, an intensified focus on […]

Nebozzo, a 50/50 joint venture between U.S. investment companies TPG and Spectrum has in the last few days has taken a 9-percent+ stake in Eutelsat. This includes the stake previously […]

By Maury Mechanick, White & Case LLP For awhile, it was beginning to appear as though the former intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in the satellite industry never were going to go […]

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a provider of satellite broadband services through its DirecWay brand, has introduced a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access service aimed at such consumer-oriented businesses as […]

The high-stakes battles that pit price-gouging television programmers against increasingly resistant satellite and cable TV service providers are becoming more frequent than ever, and Congress is taking notice. Consumers are […]

The original investors of low-Earth-orbit satellite services Iridium and Globalstar who lost nearly all their money could not be blamed for regretting that either multi-billion dollar venture was built. Now […]

Luxembourg-based SES Global, the world’s largest satellite operating company, appears to be bottoming out and heading for a financial upswing starting next year. That is the view of key satellite […]

NDS CEO Abe Peled expects the main 2004 growth drivers for the company to come from lucrative contracts in Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. NDS recently […]

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] officials said their satellite radio service this Wednesday will debut XM America Left, a new talk-radio channel dedicated to “progressive” political viewpoints. America Left’s daily program […]

SES Americom, a unit of SES Global, said today that the company signed a deal to deliver live and recorded programming from XY.tv. XY.tv is a 24-hour network of original […]