Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-15-10] For the past year, satellite pay-TV provider DirecTV’s financial growth has defied the logic of the consumer economy and baffled analysts. As its major cable rivals report historic losses attributed to consumers cutting pay-TV from their monthly budgets, DirecTV has generated an impressive $2.78 billion cash on net income of $1.5...

[Satellite Today 11-15-10] Measat Satellite Systems signed a capacity deal with GlobeCast to distribute one of Asia’s major sporting events, the operator announced Nov. 11.   Measat will provide a total of two transponders on the Measat-3 and Measat-3a satellites that GlobeCast will use to distribute the Asian Games 2010, which began Nov. 12 and...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-12-10] Despite adding 45,000 new subscribers in its 2010 third quarter, Sky Deutschland is a long way from proving its reliability as an investment, according to UBS Media Equity Analyst Tamsin Garrity.     “We see significant medium-term potential in the German pay-TV market, with a potential catalyst should Sky sign a cable...

[Satellite TODAY 11-10-10] Teranex Systems, a manufacturer of high-performance video processing platforms, and Sensio Technologies have integrated Sensio’s 3-D frame-compatible stereoscopic compression technology to Teranex’s 3-D VC1-3D-ENC and VC1-3D-DEC encoding and decoding applications, the companies announced Nov. 9.     Teranex and Sensio said they partnered on the project to add capabilities enabling delivery of high-quality...

[Satellite TODAY 11-09-10] EchoStar reported $5 million in profits during the 2010 third quarter, backed by a 26 percent increase in revenues over the same period in 2009 to $607 million, the company announced Nov. 8.     While EchoStar’s profits plunged compared to its net income of $294 million reported a year ago, the company’s...

[Satellite TODAY 11-09-10] France Télévisions has installed and deployed a disaster recovery solution from Thomson Video Networks (TVN), which includes TVN’s Sapphire broadcast servers and ProConsultant Informatique’s Louise broadcast management software, TVN announced Nov. 8.     TVN and ProConsultant Informatique collaborated on the project to develop a disaster recovery system that could provide backup for...

[Satellite News 11-09-10] ESPN, which is aiming to one of the early movers in the 3-D broadcasting arena, has completed a comprehensive research study looking at the early impact of 3-D and is happy with the results.     Artie Bulgrin, ESPN’s senior vice president of research and sales development told Satellite News that the study...

[Satellite TODAY 11-08-10] Clear Channel will renew its capacity deals with SES World Skies for 144 MHz of capacity on four satellites to deliver connectivity and content to subscribers and audiences in the United States.     Under the agreements, Clear Channel has secured 46 MHz on SES-1, 36 MHz on AMC-8, 36 MHz on AMC-9...

[Satellite TODAY 11-08-10] Dish Network reported total revenues of $3.21 billion for its 2010 third quarter, a 10.9 percent increase compared with revenues of $2.89 billion for the corresponding period in 2009, the U.S. pay TV operator announced Nov. 5.     Dish Network’s net income increased by triple-digit percentages to $245 million for the quarter,...

[Satellite TODAY 11-05-10] DirecTV reported double-digit revenue growth for the fourth consecutive quarter, with 2010 third quarter revenues improving 10 percent to $6.03 billion compared to the same period in 2009, the company announced Nov. 4.     The U.S. pay-TV operator’s net income increased 31 percent to $479 million and diluted earnings-per-share grew 49 percent...