Focus: Broadcasting

Vislink, a broadcast solutions provider, has appointed two new key members for its team.

OTE, a dominant telecommunications provider in Greece, saw second-quarter success with its satellite TV offer, adding a total of 174,964 subscribers to its ranks.

ATEME, a video compression solutions provider for the broadcast industry, announced that Karen McCone, has joined the company as vice president, media accounts for the Americas region.

Five EchoStar-engineered products have been selected as finalists in this year's Cable & Satellite International (CSI) Awards.

Advantech Wireless, a global designer and manufacturer of satellite, radio frequency equipment and microwave systems, has received new orders in excess of $1 million to supply 600W and 1.2kW Ku-band SapphireBlu Series of UltraLinear GaN based High Power Amplifiers (HPA) for Direct-to-Home (DTH) projects from a major customer in Asia.

RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, reported a record $29.5 million in revenues for the second quarter of 2013.

Platco Digial, a low-cost direct-to-home (DTH) company that supports a multi-channel strategy offering content carriage to local broadcasters, will bring South Africa free satellite TV through OpenView HD, a free-to-view satellite TV offering with an initial 15 channels.

Agogo, a new mobile audio service, aims to collect the span of online audio offerings such as Spotify, Rdio, and NPR and connect them, in a single interface.

The Global VSAT Forum (GVF), the Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG), the World Broadcasting Unions- International Satellite Operators Group (WBU-ISOG) and the Radio Frequency Interference – End Users Initiative (RFI-EUI), have partnered to host a series of interference prevention meetings throughout IBC.

GlobeCast and Arabsat have partnered to offer new solutions for broadcasters seeking to distribute programming in North Africa.