Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 05-21-10] Dish Network has launched Google TV, an open platform designed to integrate multichannel television with Web media content, the companies announced May 20.     Dish Network subscribers using Google TV will now have the ability to simultaneously search for content across Dish Network, the Internet and their DVRs while overlaying related online...

[Satellite TODAY 05-21-10] Bryan McGuirk, senior vice president of media services at SES World Skies, will be leaving the company at the end of May to form a new venture in the media and entertainment sector, SES World Skies confirmed May 19.       SES World Skies Senior Vice President of Global Sales Scott Sprague will...

[Satellite TODAY 05-20-10] Israel’s Yes satellite TV provider has launched video-on-demand (VOD) and broadband services using OnDemand, an add-on module that supports multiplatform on-demand services within Pilat Media’s IBMS broadcast management system, the company announced May 19.     IBMS controls content re-ingestion in MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 formats and inserts extra metadata that enables searches of...

[Satellite TODAY 05-20-10] Intelsat will temporarily relocate playout facilities, uplink and satellite segment on Intelsat’s IS-709 satellite to the 54.85 degrees East orbital slot to accommodate FIFA 2010 World Cup broadcasting requirements, the operator announced May 19.     Intelsat is providing more than 700 MHz of satellite capacity on more than seven of its satellites...

[Satellite News 05-20-10] The Broadcast & Beyond 2010 event in London saw executives from BSkyB and SES Astra give updates on 3-D and hybrid TV in Germany.     Chris Johns, chief engineer, BSkyB presented early statistics related to BSkyB’s launch of 3-D TV in the United Kingdom and said the reaction to BSkyB’s 3-D launch...

[Satellite TODAY 05-18-10] GlobeCast has revealed the details of its network and services to rights-holders and non-rights-holders for worldwide distribution of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa this summer.     In a May 18 company statement, GlobeCast said it would offer rights-holding broadcasters dedicated HD and SD uplink and downlink paths available to and...

[Satellite TODAY 05-18-10] Israeli satellite operator Spacecom has signed a long-term agreement with U.A. Inter Media Group, Ukraine’s national broadcaster and leading channel network, Spacecom announced May 18.     U.A. Inter Media will nine shift nine of its satellite TV channels, including Inter+, Enter, Enter Film, NTN, K1, K2, Mega and MTV Ukraine to Spacecom’s...

[Satellite TODAY 05-19-10] Measat Satellite Systems has signed an agreement with GlobeCast and SPE Networks Asia to distribute the Southeast Asian feed of the AXN HD channel via the Measat-3 satellite, the operator announced May 18.     This is the second AXN HD channel Measat will distribute for Globecast, bringing the total number of its...

{Satellite News 05-18-10} With the 2010 FIFA World Cup less than a month away, satellite companies are preparing to play their part in delivering content from South Africa to the rest of the world.     Many industry analysts were worried that fiber telecom IP services would push satellite out of World Cup delivery participation, illustrated...

[Satellite News 05-18-10] While the cable and satellite industry enjoyed a 5 percent customer satisfaction rating increase in the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s (ASCI) 2010 first quarter report as a whole, Dish Network stood out as a clear winner as it topped rival satellite pay-TV provider DirecTV by three points to become the highest rated...