Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 11-15-11] GlobeCast Americas CEO Lisa Coelho has created a dedicated Latin American sales team and a refocusing strategy for its ad-hoc broadcast services in North America as part of a series of planned organizational changes designed to maximize the company’s regional footprint, GlobeCast announced Nov. 14.    The Latin American sales team will...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-10-11] The global consumer online video market was worth close to five billion euros ($6.89 billion) in 2010 and could go over 21 billion euros ($28.93 billion) by 2015. This forecast comes from French research company, IDATE which released its latest research report on the subject ‘Online Video: Uses, Markets, Delivery Technologies/CDN’....

[Satellite News 11-10-11] Romania’s largest telco Romtelecom is looking to make more of an impact in Romania’s competitive pay-TV market. The operator, which has around 1.2 million DTH subscribers in Romania, is targeting a greater presence in the country’s television market, but Romtelecom’s Residential Segment CCO Ovidiu Ghiman believes this task will not be easy....

[Satellite TODAY 11-10-11]  SkyVision Global Networks is set to launch a range of new services in the next week as it looks to boost its position in the African communications market. The company announced Nov. 9, that it will launch new Ku-band VSAT Services in Africa, which it says will offer “robust and dependable IP...

[Satellite TODAY 11-09-11] Gilat Satcom partnered with Over-the-Top (OTT) video platform provider Tvinci to jointly roll out a full duplex satellite-based OTT TV solution, the companies confirmed Nov. 8. The solution aims to utlilize Gilat Satcom’s satellite-based connectivity services and Tvinci’s Pay OTT platform to deliver accessible OTT TV content to PCs, connected TVs, set-top...

[Satellite TODAY 11-09-11] The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) filed a petition for a declaratory ruling with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against a satellite dish ordinance bill (No. 100200-AAA) recently enacted by the Philadelphia Municipal Government, SBCA announced Nov. 4. According to the details of the ordinance, Philadelphia residents of single-family homes...

[Satellite TODAY 11-08-11] GlobeCast has signed a contract with Trace to broadcast its Trace Sports HD channel on SES’ NSS-806 satellite, GlobeCast announced Nov. 7.             Trace is a multimedia group and an international broadcaster that specializes in the production and distribution of channels dedicated to urban music and sports celebrities and has a longstanding...

[Satellite News 11-08-11] EchoStar Corp. generated a 42 percent, year-over-year increase in its 2011 fiscal third quarter revenues at $863 million, but the company’s profit margin dipped into a net loss of $19 million after reporting a $5.2 million profit during the corresponding period in 2010, according to its latest financial results issued Nov. 7....

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-07-11] Pay-TV operator DirecTV gained more than 327,000 subscribers in the United States during its third quarter 2011 ­— the company’s highest net addition result in seven years — due to the strength of its NFL Sunday Ticket promotional content package, according to its latest financial results issued Nov. 3.    DirecTV...