Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 08-16-10] About 50 broadcasters and pay-TV operators will be offering 3-D TV services by the end of this year, according to a study published Aug. 13 by IMS Research.     The study, “3-D Video & Gaming in the Home,” said that 75 percent of the companies surveyed plan to test or offer 3-D...

[Satellite TODAY 08-13-10] SatLink has been contracted by Channel One Russia to provide broadcasting services to the Asia-Pacific region, SatLink announced Aug. 11. The long-term contract will see SatLink broadcast Channel One Russia’s international feed throughout markets over SatLink’s AsiaSat-5 MCPC (multiple channel per carrier) platform.     Channel One Russia provides Russian-language news and entertainment...

[Satellite TODAY 08-13-10] The European News Exchange (ENEX) has approved Sencore’s MRD3187B receiver decoder for use in satellite newsgathering applications, Sencore announced Aug. 12.     As a result, ENEX will recommend the device for use by 35 member stations located throughout Europe, the United States and Japan. ENEX said it selected Sencore’s MRD due to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-12-10] U.S. satellite pay-TV operator DirecTV has entered into a partnership with Google in which the Internet search engine company will sell its advertising inventory on several of DirecTV’s cable networks, the companies announced Aug. 11.     Advertising on the Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4, Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth, Chiller and TV...

[Satellite TODAY 08-12-10] The Amos 5i communications satellite will run out of fuel before its replacement, Amos 5, is launched in mid-2011, Israeli operator Spacecom Satellite Communications announced Aug. 9.     Spacecom said it must now find alternatives for Amos 5i’s telecommunications customers in Africa, which will result in a $12 million loss in the...

[Satellite TODAY 08-12-10] Broadcast service provider In Demand has extended its capacity lease with SES World Skies for video-on-demand, PPV and HD content delivery to cable systems across North America, SES announced Aug. 11.     In Demand will continue to use two transponders aboard SES World Skies’ AMC-1 and AMC-10 satellites to support In Demand’s...

[Satellite TODAY 08-10-10] EchoStar Corp. reported a 57.4 percent increase in its 2010 second quarter revenue over the same period in 2009 at $603 million but suffered a net loss of $41 million, the company announced in its latest financial results, issued Aug. 9.     EchoStar blamed the net loss on a 48 percent increase...

[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, has asked the U.K. Competition Commission to investigate concerns regarding BSkyB’s sale and distribution of subscription premium pay-TV movies.      In a statement issued Aug. 4, the regulator said that it was “concerned in particular that the way in which these movies are sold and distributed creates...

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-10] EchoStar Satellite Services has appointed Ken Carroll COO, the company announced Aug. 4.      Carroll will have oversight over capacity leasing, ViP-TV and other satellite-related businesses as they become operational and will report to EchoStar President Dean Olmstead.     Carroll previously served as president and COO at WildBlue and also has served...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of content management and global distribution broadcast services, has launched a new religious programming platform on Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 satellite, RRsat announced Aug. 3.     The platform, together with RRsat’s three other platforms already operating on this satellite, will broadcast more than 50 religious and ethnic...