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[Satellite Today 05-08-09] DirecTV Group Inc. posted earnings of $201 million in the 2009 first quarter, down 46 percent from the same period in 2008, the company announced May 7....

[Satellite Today 05-08-09] David Rehr, president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will resign, the organization announced May 6.     During an interim period, Janet McGregor, NAB’s...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] Optisat has released its S2-S receiver satellite unit, a product that combines DVB-S2 satellite front-end with DVB-ASI and GbE IP outputs, the company announced May 6.    ...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) reported revenue of $20.7 million in its 2009 first quarter, a 6 percent decline from revenue of $22.2 million in the same...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA successfully launched a Delta II rocket carrying the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Advanced Technology Risk Reduction (ATRR) mission for...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] Avanti Communications signed contracts to supply broadband products to Italian distribution companies Tempestini Group and Hitek Partners, Avanti announced May 6.     Tempestini Group specializes in developing...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] El Corte Ingles will distribute Eutelsat’s Tooway satellite broadband service to retail consumers in Spain, Eutelsat announced May 6.     The two companies signed a distribution agreement...

[Satellite Today 05-07-09] Wegener released its MicroCasting solution, a satellite-delivered radio localization service that tailors national programming to local markets, the company announced.     The company also is promoting its...

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] The Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) will run a U.S. corporation, Universal Space Network (USN), as a subsidiary after the U.S. government approved SSC’s acquisition of USN with...

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] End-to-end broadcasting solutions provider, Harmonic, said it suffered heavy losses in its 2009 first quarter financial report released May 5.     The company’s CFO, Robin Dickson attributed...