Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-18-11] Thaicom reported a 38 percent increase in revenues for its IPStar business in its fiscal 2010 year, with revenues from its Internet and media businesses also increasing 21.3 percent over the previous year to $21.3 million, Thaicom announced in its latest financial results issued Feb. 17.     Thaicom generated $76.5 million...

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Microwave systems and components supplier Luso Electronics introduced two high-power, Ku-and C-band redundant combiner assemblies (RCAs), the company announced Feb. 16.     Luso’s RCAs facilitate automatic redundancy in a two-amplifier phase combiner when configured with the manufacturer’s controller. In the event that a service provider’s amplifier fails, the combiner aims to allow...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-17-11] Mobile carrier trade group CTIA and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have proposed spectrum incentive auctions that could raise up to $2.3 billion for U.S. TV stations and $33 billion or more for U.S. treasury based on the value of the spectrum, the two groups said in a Feb. 15 report...

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Video delivery solutions provider Sencore entered into a partnership agreement with Sistemas Digitales in Mexico City to represent and support Sencore’s full line of broadcast products across the Mexican market, Sencore announced Feb. 16.     Sistemas Digitales will offer Sencore product lines in video monitoring and signal delivery as well as provide...

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-11] Globecomm Systems completed its satellite uplink hub for Televisa at its Mexico City broadcast center, Globecomm announced Feb. 16.     The hub was designed by Globecomm under a contract signed in early 2010 to support Sky’s DTH programming over Mexico via seven SD and three HD video carriers on 9-meter and 11-meter...

  [Satellite TODAY Insider 02-16-11] The Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting proposed an increase to its foreign investment caps to help support satellite broadcasters’ efforts to digitize their networks, ministry officials announced Feb. 15.     The current Indian satellite TV foreign investment cap for distribution companies stands at 49 percent. According to documents posted...

[Satellite TODAY 02-16-11] Sirius XM Radio‘s full-year 2010 revenues were $2.82 billion – a 14 percent increase from its year-end total in 2009, the company announced in its latest financial results issued Feb. 15.     Sirius XM ends the year with $587 million in available cash. "With only $104 million of debt maturing before 2013,...

[Satellite News 02-16-11] Croatia’s T-Hrvatski Telecom is using satellite capacity from the three transponders it leased from Eutelsat in January to extend the reach of its MAXtv pay-TV service. T-Hrvatski CEO Ivica Mudrinić told Satellite News that in markets like Croatia, where heavy infrastructure investments are rare, satellite enables telcos to quickly deploy services.   ...

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-11] Sky-Stream, a Dubai-based connectivity and satellite service solutions provider, launched a satellite IP-TV streaming service over the iDirect TDMA platform, iDirect announced.     The service, powered by iDirect’s satellite platform, uses Apple TV to provide customers in the Middle East and Africa to access to on-demand programs in remote locations where such...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-11-11] Norwegian company Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) received approval from its board to procure and launch the Thor 7 satellite by the end of 2013, the company announced Feb. 10.     The operator said the Ku- and Ka-band satellite will provide critical expansion of broadcasting services and data communications capacity to meet...