Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite News 10-06-10] As the U.S. broadcasting industry looks to projected increases in third quarter advertising sales to help recover from a damaging 2010 second quarter with, analysts and investors are paying close attention to DirecTV, which faces a potential problem with its popular and lucrative NFL Sunday Ticket package.     Since 1994, DirecTV’s NFL...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-10] David Butorac has been named CEO of DTH operator Orbit Showtime Network, the company announced Oct. 3.     Butorac replaces Marc-Antoine d’Halluin, who stepped down at the end of September.     Butorac previously served as managing director of WIN Corp., an Australian regional cross-media company, and also has held positions at BSkyB,...

[Satellite TODAY 10-05-10] IP-based solutions provider International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) has entered into a partnership to supply Arqiva with digital cinema-specific content distribution applications and remote site equipment, IDC announced Oct. 4.     Arqiva, which previously selected IDC to implement an initial network, will expand the deployment of its network, supported by IDC’s digital cinema-specific...

[Satellite News 05-04-10] While Sky Deutschland has struggled to connect with Germany’s frugal consumer base since it acquired and rebranded Premiere in 2009, Morgan Stanley Media Equity Analyst Patrick Wellington hailed the pay-TV operator’s new CEO Brian Sullivan and his efforts to build a profitable long-term business model in one of Europe’s toughest TV markets....

[Satellite TODAY 10-02-10] Euronews signed a deal with Viasat Broadcasting to launch the Euronews channel on a number of satellite pay-TV platforms across the Nordic and Baltic region, the broadcaster announced Sept. 30.     The channel is being broadcasted from the Viasat satellite platform on the Astra 4A satellite to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in...

We’ve heard this story before – Apple has released another device that will, according to the media, forever change the broadcasting business. Since the company behind the device is Apple, the coverage is a little bigger and helps generates a more dangerous threat to competitors. In late August, Apple TV was unveiled to consumers as...

MediaCorp is the largest broadcaster in Singapore, and with Singapore likely to be one of the early adopters of 3-D TV in the Asia-Pacific region, MediaCorp likely will be at the cutting edge of the technology. MediaCorp also plans to launch a channel in North America in 2011 as part of the operator to move...

[Satellite TODAY 09-30-10]  Latens will provide content security to Dish Nepal’s new DTH platform, the company announced Sept. 30.     Latens’ will supply Dish Nepal with card-less Conditional Access (CA) technology, which will be supported by set-top box and middleware from Indieon and Arion. The 80-channel Dish Nepal DTH platform is targeting to gain more...

[Satellite TODAY 09-29-10] Virgin Media plans to join BSkyB in the 3-D broadcasting market in the United Kingdom, Virgin Media announced Sept. 28.     The cable broadcaster will launch its 3-D Movies On Demand offering and also unveiled an exclusive 3-D TV partnership with Samsung Electronics. Under the agreement, Samsung 3-D TVs sold in the...

[Satellite TODAY 09-28-10] European media company Vivendi has finalized the sale of nearly 8 percent of its stake in NBC Universal to General Electric (GE) for $2 billion, Vivendi announced Sept. 27.     In December, GE and Comcast signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast...