Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-22-10] Analysts and regional broadcasters have highlighted Indonesia’s DTH potential for years, and Measat Satellite Systems has entered into an agreement to lease Measat-3a Ku-band capacity to Patra Telekomunikasi Indonesia, the operator announced Oct. 21.     Patra will use the capacity to support its Aora TV DTH service in Indonesia. The agreement...

Did you miss the live Webcast? Watch it now On Demand! The ILS Proton rocket successfully lifted off from Pad 24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 15th at 12:53 am local time. This was the 6th ILS Proton launch of 2010 and the 5th SIRIUS XM Satellite launched on ILS Proton. After a 9 hour...

[Satellite News 10-20-10] Being the first operator to announce a 3-D initiative and launch a dedicated 3-D channel has helped U.K. pay-TV giant BskyB establish a reputation for staying ahead of the pace in the broadcast market.     However, this reputation also created a challenge. BSkyB said the quality of 3-D content would be the...

[Satellite TODAY 10-19-10] Kudelski Group value-added content protection solutions subsidiary Nagravision was selected to secure the roll-out of advanced digital services for Hsin Yeong An Cable TV (HYA) in Taiwan, Nagravision announced Oct. 18.     HYA, with more than 200,000 subscriber households, delivers analog TV services and cable modem broadband service to its subscribers. The...

[Satellite TODAY 10-19-10] EchoStar Satellite Services has released its News Gateway delivery service, which uses a combination of the company’s U.S. fiber network and IP multicasting technologies to route and deliver live, high-quality news video content from any one of EchoStar’s 210 U.S.-designated market areas, EchoStar announced.     News Gateway features an online interface, which...

[Satellite TODAY 10-19-10] Envivio is set to unveil a multi-screen video processing solution, which aims to provide a three-screen video headend to three of the five largest cable MSOs in the United States, the company announced Oct. 18.     The solution will be based on Envivo’s existing 4Caster C4 encoding and transcoding multi-screen platform, which...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-18-10] International Launch Services (ILS) carried Sirius XM Radio’s XM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton rocket from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, ILS announced Oct. 15.      XM-5, the fifth Sirius XM satellite to be launched on an ILS Proton, was placed at 80 degrees West but will be moved to its...

[Satellite TODAY 10-18-10] Russian DTH operator NTV-Plus has launched a 3-D TV channel in Russia, the company announced Oct. 15.      NTV-Plus’ 3-D channel launch makes Russia the second market after the United Kingdom (BSkyB) to launch dedicated satellite TV broadcasts in 3-D. Operators Sky Deutschland, Foxtel and DirecTV have announced 3-D TV initiatives and...

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-10] Pace has signed a deal with Seths Antenn & Teleteknik, which will see the company become Pace’s first systems integrator in the Nordic market, the company announced Oct. 14.     As a member of Pace’s global partner program, Seths, a reseller and systems integrator of CATV, satellite, and EuroDOCSIS systems, will offer...

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-10] Miranda has equipped Hungarian broadcaster Liga TV’s first HD truck with routing and signal processing systems, Miranda announced Oct. 14.     Miranda’s signal management system is based on an nVision 8288 HD/SD router equipped with 156 inputs and 240 outputs. Since a large majority of Hungarian television is broadcast in SD, the...