Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 12-09-09] Measat Satellite Systems (Measat) has appointed Janice Boo director of occasional use and broadcast services, the company announced Dec. 7.     Boo previously held senior sales positions at Total Sports Asia Limited, including most recently sales director of the media department.     Boo has experience managing sales and marketing for the broadcast...

[Satellite TODAY 12-08-09] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) completed its acquisition of select terrestrial, satellite and IP product lines and related technology from Logic Innovations for $600,000, IDC announced Dec. 7.     IDC paid $250,000 in cash, with $300,000 placed in escrow. Payment of the remaining portion of the purchase price and release of the escrow...

[Satellite TODAY 12-08-09] The Dec. 7 story, “Boeing ships DirecTV 12 to Baikonur,” should have read — Boeing has shipped the DirecTV 12 to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan in preparation for its launch next year, Boeing announced.     The Boeing 702 model satellite is scheduled for launch by International Launch Services Dec....

[Satellite News 12-07-09] In one of the biggest pay-TV consolidations of 2009, Middle East DTH platforms Showtime Arabia and Orbit merged in August to create Orbit Showtime. The platform, equally owned by the Orbit Group and the Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO), aims to bring 75 premium channels from the Middle East and North Africa together...

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-09] Boeing has shipped the DirecTV 12 to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan in preparation for its launch next year, Boeing announced.     The Boeing 702 model satellite is scheduled for launch by International Launch Services on Dec. 29. DirecTV 12 is expected to be operational in three to six months...

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-09] The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an updated version of HR 3750, commonly known as the Satellite Reauthorization Bill, Congress announced Dev. 4.     The bill, which upon signing was renamed the Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act, reauthorizes the license for satellite companies to carry distant network affiliate TV station signals....

[Satellite TODAY 12-04-09] Austrian public broadcaster ORF has purchased HD from SES Astra, the company announced Dec. 3.     ORF will launch its ORF2 HD platform on the Astra 1M satellite at 19.2 degrees East Dec. 5. In addition to HD, ORF will continue to broadcast both ORF1, launched in June 2008, and ORF2 in...

[Satellite TODAY 12-04-09] BSkyB Managing Director Brian Sullivan has been appointed CEO of Sky Deutschland, effective March 31, the operator announced.      Sullivan, a 13-year veteran of BSkyB’s customer department, will replace CEO Mark Williams who is leaving the company for personal reasons.      “Germany remains a largely untapped market, not just for pay TV...

[Satellite TODAY 12-03-09] GlobeCast has signed an international programming deal with Verizon, GlobeCast announced Dec. 2.     Verizon will launch three new three new channels from Globecast’s World TV package of channels to its FiOS subscriber base in the United States.     These three channels feature Korean, Mandarin and Greek programming. With these new channels,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-02-09]  Foxtel has launched a DVR satellite TV service in Australia using NDS’ XTV technology, NDS said Nov. 30.     The service aims to enable Foxtel subscribers to record movies, individual programs or an entire series immediately or weeks in advance.     “The launch of these solutions in Asia has been made possible...