Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite News 11-29-11] FSS operators have big plans for Africa in 2012, with investments in fleet and service expansion across the continent in a race set to begin with the launch of new satellites.             Intelsat is prepared to launch three new satellites to its 22-spacecraft fleet serving Africa in 2012, backed by new contracts...

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-11] Educational news network Channel One News has extended its multi-year contract with satellite video service provider Keystone Enterprise Services to continue supplying turnkey satellite network and support services for direct-to-school news broadcast    Keystone Enterprise Services beams Channel One News signals via nationwide satellite connectivity. Channel One News reaches more than five...

[Satellite News 11-22-11] Deutsche Telekom (DT) launched its satellite TV offering Entertain Sat at the beginning of September and reached 50,000 subscribers by the end of the month. With such strong early take-up, DT now considers Entertain Sat a key part of its video strategy in Germany, according to Telekom Deutschland Head of Marketing Christian...

[Satellite TODAY 11-21-11] FSS operator Eutelsat categorically denied reports that it is interfering with its own satellite signals in order to prevent reception of international Farsi-language channels in Iran.    In a company statement issued Nov. 17, Eutelsat said recent reports suggesting the operator was buckling to pressure from the Iranian government, were contradictory and...

[Satellite TODAY 11-21-11] TiVUS has signed an agreement with an unnamed digital media services company to secure broadcast rights agreements for all needed cable channels and premium content providers to hotels, the company announced Nov. 18.    The contract allows TiVUS HD content to be delivered via its private Ku-band satellite feed of hotel HD...

[Satellite TODAY 11-16-11] UAE-based satellite broadcasting company YahLive has signed a partnership agreement with telecom operator Du for collaboration on satellite broadcasting services, the companies announced Nov. 15.    YahLive, a partnership entity between Yahsat and SES, will allow Du to establish uplink services to its Y1A satellite located at the 52.5 degrees East orbital...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-16-11] FSS operator SES activated full service on its recently launched QuetzSat-1 satellite and signed a capacity agreement with High TV 3D to distribute the channel from its Astra 23.5 degrees East orbital slot, the company announced Nov. 15.    The all Ku-band high-powered QuetzSat-1, successfully launched in September on an ILS...

[Satellite TODAY 11-16-11] U.S. Pay-TV operator DirecTV exercised an option in its multi-launch contract with Arianespace to include a mission to send a new DirecTV Latin America service-providing satellite into orbit, the companies confirmed Nov. 14.    Arianespace will orbit the new spacecraft in 2014 on an Ariane 5 rocket launched from the European Spaceport...

[Satellite TODAY 11-16-11] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has signed a deal valued at more than $125 million to lease multiple transponders on its Condosat ABS-2 satellite to GT Satellite Systems S.A. (GTSS), the operator announced Nov. 15.    The deal is subsequent to similar transponder lease agreements announced by GTSS in 2009. GTSS platform services...

[Satellite TODAY 11-15-11] German technology developer 2wcom Systems has delivered its FlexXtract monitoring solution to Media Broadcast to support Deutschland Radio broadcasts of its DAB Plus programs via a network of 27 satellite-feed DAB Plus TX-stations, 2wcom announced Nov. 14.    The company said its FlexXtract solution receives SCPC MPEG2 transport streams and extracts the...