Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 05-17-10] The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals granted Dish Network and EchoStar’s request for a full-court review of the ruling in the two company’s patent dispute with TiVo, EchoStar announced May 14.     “We believe the issues that will be considered by the full court on rehearing will have a profound impact...

[Satellite TODAY 05-17-10] Spanish DTH platform Digital+ has lost more than 10 percent of its subscriber base in the period from March 2009 to March 2010, according to the company’s 2010 first-quarter results, issued May 13.     Digital+, a subsidiary of Spainish broadcaster Prisa, had 1.8 million subscribers at the end of the first three...

[Satellite TODAY 05-17-10] Dish Network has entered a multi-year partnership with end-to-end IPTV service provider NeuLion to distribute Dish Network’s international channels using NeuLion’s IPTV network, the companies announced May 14.     The partnership aims to provide international programming via IPTV to consumers without access to satellite TV. NeuLion will supply IPTV network components such...

[Satellite TODAY 05-17-10] Sensio Technologies appointed Patrick Whittingham to its board of directors, the company announced May 13.     Whittingham previously served as president of the Sony Broadcast and Production Systems Division for 28 years. He now serves as president of Toronto-area media technology consulting firm PGW & Associates and sits on the boards of...

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-10] ESPN Star Sports selected GlobeCast as its technical broadcast partner to deliver ICC World Twenty20 cricket sporting events from the West Indies to more than 181 territories around the globe, Globecast announced May 13.     GlobeCast will deploy engineers at three cricket venues in Guyana, St. Lucia and Barbados and provide a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-10] The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA) May 12, renewing laws that govern the retransmission of broadcast television content by satellite companies.     The bill renews for five years statutory licenses that allow satellite TV companies to retransmit broadcast stations to their customers...

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-10] MTV has renewed its contract with Arqiva for the uplinking of two transponders to the Astra satellite system at 19 degrees East, Arqiva announced May 13.     MTV uses Arqiva’s uplinking to provide distribution of its programming into Europe. MTV has a number of distribution services with Arqiva, including the provision of...

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-10] Liberty Global is teaming with Samsung, Intel, NDS and Nagravision to build a multimedia home gateway for its digital TV customer base, LGI announced, May 12.     The multimedia home gateway, scheduled for deployment in Europe in the first half of 2011, is an IP platform capable of distributing video, voice and...

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-10] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) entered into a contact valued at 1.2 million euro ($1.5 million) contract with an unnamed pan-European content distribution company to provide its Superflex Pro Video product line for the expansion of the customer’s 3-D live content and digital cinema content distribution networks, IDC announced May 10.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 05-10-10] Ericsson is confident that its 3-D TV partnership with ESPN will be a precursor to many more 3-D deals, as the two companies work to incorporate a complete standards-based video processing solution, featuring encoders and receivers, for the ESPN 3-D sports network, Ericsson CTO Giles Wilson told Satellite TODAY.     Wilson, who...