Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 11-04-10] Odeon UCI, the largest cinema chain outside the Americas, will deploy Arqiva’s Digital Cinema Satellite System, Arqiva announced Nov. 2.     Under the agreement, signed through Arqiva’s Digital Cinema partners Arts Alliance Media, Arqiva will install its satellite receive equipment at nearly 100 cinemas for UCI in Italy and Portugal, UCI Kinowelt...

[Satellite TODAY 11-04-10] Artel has released its DLT710 multi-format 3G-SDI capable signal generator and test module, the company announced Nov. 3.     The DL4000-based DLT710 module is designed for both automatic link verification of all serial digital video formats and as a signal generator and functional test monitor for 3G-SDI, HD-SDI, SD-SDI, DVB-ASI and ATSC...

[Satellite TODAY 11-03-10] BSkyB has expanded its technology contract with Web-based media monitoring and management solution provider Actus Digital to provide its Actus View multi-channel transmission ingest, content detection and monitoring solution, BSkyB announced Nov. 2.     BSkyB, which contracted Actus to provide a variety of technologies to the broadcaster earlier this year, will use...

[Satellite TODAY 11-03-10] Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel signed deals with several Hollywood Studios to bring movies to Foxtel subscribers in a similar timeframe with DVD releases, the operator announced Nov. 2. Starting this week, selected titles on Foxtel’s existing PPV movie service and its new broadband-connected Foxtel On Demand Internet television service will be released...

[Satellite News 11-04-10] Bharti Airtel, one of India’s biggest telcos with more than 100 million wireless subscribers, is making satellite services a larger part of its overall strategy in the areas of VSAT service and pay-TV     The operator launched DTH services in March 2009 and already has about 3.5 million subscribers. “We were the...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-02-10] Egyptian Information Minister Annas el-Fiqi has ordered all satellite broadcasters providing uplink services or television networks with uplinks to reapply for permits, revoking all existing licenses for its regional satellite television uplinks, the state-owned MENA News Agency confirmed Nov. 1.     El-Fiqi said the move aims to put an end to...

[Satellite TODAY 11-02-10] Globecomm has received a $3.8 million contract from an unnamed media and entertainment company to design and install antenna diversity switching systems for the customer, Globecomm announced Nov. 1.     The antenna switching systems will work to enhance direct-to-home service availability. In addition, Globecomm will refurbish the customer’s existing antennas and provide...

[Satellite News 11-02-10] Europe Media Port (EMP), a global teleport provider, is having a strong 2010 backed by recently signed deals with O3b Networks and Kahkeshan Digisat.     Dimitrios Papaharalabos, head of sales and marketing for EMP, told Satellite News that these deals were crucial for the company’s expansion efforts in both the video and...

The National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit research organization that calls the beginning and end of recessions, declared in September that the recession that gripped the globe throughout 2008 and much of 2009 had ended. The bureau says the Great Recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, making it the...

Discovery prides itself on being a pioneer in HD and is approaching 3-D in the same manner, says John Honeycutt, executive vice president and head of international business operations for Discovery Networks International. Honeycutt speaks with Via Satellite about the company’s 3-D plans.  VIA SATELLITE: Has HD been a revenue generator? Honeycutt: It is all...