Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite News 11-28-12] Social network integration with satellite video services has reached Thailand as a result of the platform’s rapidly increasing strength over cable rivals in the region. Satellite TV has been gaining in popularity over the past few years in Thailand, as its share has risen from 15 percent in January to 19.2 percent...

[Satellite TODAY 11-28-12] Nearly half, or 49 percent, of video consumers are viewing over-the-top (OTT) video through a broadband connection on their television sets in addition to the content they traditionally watch via cable or satellite, according to a survey published Nov. 27 by analysis firm Accenture. Of those OTT viewers, 50 percent were in...

[Satellite TODAY 11-28-12] Foxtel has selected Digital Rapids to provide encoding and streaming solutions to underpin Foxtel’s new video initiatives, the companies announced Nov. 28.       Foxtel purchased StreamZ Live adaptive streaming encoders and a Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management system from Digital Rapids to power its new Go App. The Digital Rapids encoders...

[Satellite News 11-26-12] Pay-TV operator Dish Network is not happy with a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal reported last week that would allow the company to use some of its spectrum for future LTE services, claiming that the proposal’s restrictions would have serious implications on the build-out of its planned network.    FCC Chairman Julius...

[Satellite TODAY 11-26-12] EchoStar and Arianespace will collaborate to launch several new satellites from the French Guiana spaceport over a multi-year period, providing EchoStar with launch capacity and flexibility for its satellite program, the companies announced Nov. 26. According to EchoStar Satellite Services President Anders Johnson, the collaboration between the EchoStar subsidiary Hughes and Arianespace...

[Satellite News 11-20-12] So far in 2012, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized almost a billion-and-a-half dollars in satellite transactions. Yesterday, the Ex-Im Bank added to its contribution to the industry’s growth by authorizing two transactions totaling $461 million in order to underwrite the export of American-made satellites to Hong...

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-12] Arabsat has partnered with Africa, Middle East and Central Asia satcom services provider Level421, the company announced Nov. 19. As part of the partnership, Level 421 has installed a new 6.5 m antenna pointing towards Arabsat-5C satellite at 20 degrees East, capable to also handle extended C-Band, and is currently live and...

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-12] Viasat Broadcasting will broadcast three of its channels on the Polish media group and owner of the country’s largest satellite operator Cyfrowy Polsat network, the Modern Times Group (MTG) subsidiary announced Nov. 19. Starting in November 2012 in Poland, Viasat’s Explorer, History and Nature factual pay-TV channels will be made available on...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-16-12] Internet search engine company Google has been in discussions with satellite pay-TV provider Dish Network in recent weeks regarding a potential mobile network joint venture, according to a report published Nov. 15 by the Wall Street Journal. The report cited sources familiar with the discussions, noting that the talks between the...

 [Satellite TODAY 11-15-12] Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) will provide multiple cable TV and satellite channels with uplink disaster recovery services deigned to deliver uninterrupted programming, the company announced at the New York Satcon Conference Nov. 12. ATCi has expanded its satellite services division with a platform designed to address economical digital broadcast solutions and...