Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 04-09-12] The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) invested $12 million in a project with Canada’s Sirius Satellite Radio (Sirius Canada) with questionable results, according to documents and annual reports obtained and published April 6 by QMI Agency.    According to the financial report, the accumulated deficit of Sirius Canada, in which CBC owned a...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-09-12] A broadcast market analysis firm has predicted an increase in consumer spending on satellite TV industry services during the next five years and a 5.6 percent annualized revenue growth to $41.4 billion through 2017, according to an IBIS World report published April 6.    IBIS World Analyst Doug Kelly said the...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-06-12] BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch has confirmed his resignation from his position with the British satellite TV broadcaster to curb the damage done to BSkyB’s stock value, which has plummeted in the wake of a massive phone-hacking scandal that enveloped its sister publications.    BSkyB made the initial announcement April 4, which...

[Satellite TODAY 04-06-12] Satellite broadcaster Sirius XM Radio has inked a multi-year contract agreement with MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, to stream live radio broadcasts of every MLB game to SiriusXM subscribers’ mobile devices, the company announced April 5.     The service is being launched immediately, enabling...

[Satellite TODAY 04-06-12] Mexican commercial television broadcaster Grupo Televisa has contracted Gilat Satellite Networks to provide its SkyEdge 2 VSAT network for its private communication network across Mexico, Gilat announced April 5.    The SkyEdge 2 is a multi-service platform designed for the enterprise, rural network, cellular backhaul and government markets as a standards-based system...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-05-12] SES has won a satellite broadband service contract and a second deal to broadcast coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London, the FSS operator announced April 4.    Regional Internet service provider SkyGate entered into a five-year contract for the distribution of the SES Broadband satellite service, formerly known as Astra2Connect,...

[Satellite TODAY 04-04-12] Ateme and STI Telecom have successfully delivered and installed an HD-SAT turnkey satellite distribution platform for Brazilian broadcaster TV Record in São Paulo, the companies announced April 3.    The fully redundant satellite uplink system, integrated by STI Telecom and designed to include Ateme Kyrion encoders and decoders, is broadcasting TV Record´s...

[Satellite TODAY 04-02-12] Measat Satellite Systems signed an agreement with Encompass Digital Media to distribute the EdgeSport HD channel via the Measat-3 satellite located at the 91.5 degrees East orbital slot, the companies confirmed March 30.    EdgeSport is a 24-hour sports channel that was launched to the Asian market by IMG Media. The channel...

The opportunity of additional video display devices is to deliver content to more screens, but the risk to broadcasters is that some subscribers may go entirely online. Pay-TV satellite operators are accommodating the growing demand and satellite distribution companies are seeing a rising tide that lifts all boats in the market. With people showing more...

As editor of a communications publication, I receive a number of press releases related to new research and forecasts on the satellite market. I often think it would be interesting to go back to all the research that was issued in, say 2002, and see whether some of those 10-year forecasts regarding pay-TV uptake, new...