Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-11] News Corp. promoted British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) Customer Group Managing Director Andrea Zappia to serve as CEO of its Sky Italia satellite television unit, effective immediately, the company announced Aug. 1.    Zappia, who joined BSkyB in February 2010 to oversee the company’s sales, marketing and customer operations teams, replaces former...

The Latin America region has probably frustrated and intrigued the satellite sector in equal measure throughout the years. With economic instability rife in the early part of the previous decade, Latin America always seemed to be one of those regions where satellite could never quite reach its true potential. Fast forward to 2011, and Latin...

TV Globo, one of Latin America’s largest broadcasters, has carved out a strong position in its home territory of Brazil, the most populated area in the region with almost 200 million people. Octavio Florisbal, CEO of TV Globo, talks about the developing broadcast environment in the Brazilian market and how TV Globo is looking to...

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-11] SES Astra has signed a long-term satellite capacity agreement with U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV to renew its existing capacity lease and provide additional capacity to support future development with ITV’s channel offering, the operator announced July 28.    ITV currently utilizes six transponders to service the United Kingdom and Ireland at Astra’s...

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-11] Clear Channel Satellite will launch a Ku-band service on Aug. 1 that enables radio stations to receive their programming using a much smaller satellite dish, the broadcaster announced July 27.    Clear Channel Satellite President and General Manager Mike Hagans said the new Ku-band service positions the company to distribute audio networks...

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-11] Measat Satellite Systems has added Total Variety Network HD from Fox International Channels to the Measat-3/3a video neighborhood, bringing the total number of HD channels on the platform to 21, the operator announced July 26.    Total Variety Network is an Asian lifestyle and entertainment channel that will be subtitled in English,...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-26-11] The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) criticized a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Broadband Plan proposal to reclaim an additional 120 MHz of spectrum from broadcasters.    In a research report issued July 25, the NAB said that 40 percent of full-power local television stations in the United States would...

[Satellite News 07-26-11] Israeli satellite bandwidth optimization company Novelsat hopes its NS3T satellite transmission modulation technology will be considered a breakthrough improvement on the current second-generation DVB-S2 standard.    The NS3T solution for modems and modulators, which was made public July 20, is based on signal processing techniques that apply a mix of FPGA/ASIC algorithms...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-25-11] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) generated revenues of $44.53 million in its 2011 fiscal second quarter, according to its latest financial results issued July 22. While TSBc’s figures represents an increase compared to the 2011 first quarter, the broadcaster took a $5.87 million loss compared to the second quarter of last year.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-11] IP video distribution solutions provider Haivision Network Video has acquired both U.S.-based KulaByte and German imaging company MontiVision Technologies for an undisclosed amount, Haivision announced July 21.    KulaByte’s business, founded in 2004, served market segments including over-the-top (OTT) broadcast, HD Internet TV, live church streaming, education, corporate event broadcasting, live sporting...