Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 03-10-10] Intelsat reported record revenues of $2.5 billion in 2009 but recorded a loss of 781.7 million, the satellite operator announced March 9. The loss included non-cash charges of $499.1 million incurred in the first quarter for orbital location impairments.    Revenue growth of 6 percent over 2008 was driven by continued strength...

[Satellite TODAY 03-10-10] GlobeCast signed a deal for an additional full transponder on the AsiaSat 5 satellite, GlobeCast announced March 9.    The increased capacity on AsiaSat 5, formerly AsiaSat 2, will be used to provide coverage of major live news and sporting events slated in 2010 such as the World Cup, Asian Games, G20...

[Satellite News 03-05-10] SES World Skies is getting ready to begin 3-D TV trials as it aims to place satellite at the forefront in terms of delivering 3-D media.    Beginning in April, SES will work with broadcasters, programmers, TV manufacturers and technology providers in a series of tests aimed at accelerating the delivery of...

[Satellite TODAY 03-05-10] French Broadcaster Canal+ Group reported 2009 revenues of 4.55 billion euros ($6.2 billion), a 1.6 percent increase compared to 2008, in its latest financial results, released March 1.     Canal+ Group EBITDA grew by 14.8 percent to reach 652 million euros ($881 million) in 2009, compared to 568 million euros ($774 million)...

[Satellite TODAY 03-04-10] Dish Network now has more than 14 million subscribers in the United States, the company announced in its 2009 full-year financial results, issued March 1. The U.S. pay-TV company added over 420,000 subscribers in 2009, with strong gains in the fourth quarter of about 250,000 net subscribers, to end the year with...

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-10] SES World Skies will join broadcasters, programmers, TV makers and technology providers in a series of tests aimed at accelerating the delivery of 3-D TV, the company announced March 1.     The trials, planned for this spring, will test eight major 3-D TV components in an end-to-end platform, including content production, formatting,...

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-10] Stratos Global has been contracted by the BBC to provide the U.K. broadcaster with an Inmarsat BGAN X-Stream mobile broadband satellite service to broadcast live coverage of a charity event in the Amazon region, Stratos announced March 1.     The deployment of BGAN X-Stream to cover “Helen’s Amazing Amazon Adventure” represents BBC...

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-10] Indian DTH platform, DishTV is still a year away from launching HD services in India, COO Salil Kapoor told Satellite News.      “We are working on HD services, but there is very little HD content right now. I think the content needs to be there, before we look to HD services. I...

Michel de Rosen took over the role of CEO of Eutelsat Communications from Giuliano Berretta in November. For most of the previous decade, he served as chairman and CEO of ViroPharma, a U.S. pharmarceutical company and since 2008 as chairman and CEO of SGD, a glass bottle manufacturer based in France. Now de Rosen will...

  Speak now or forever hold your peace or at least hold it for a long time until provision can be made to hear your arguments. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is required to consider your comments in the process of making rules. Public participation is essential to ensure that no issue has been...