Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite TODAY 11-20-09] Liberty Media shareholders have approved initiatives proposed by the company to separate itself from Liberty Entertainment and related entertainment businesses in order to combine Liberty Entertainment with the DirecTV Group, Liberty Media announced Nov. 19.     Liberty Entertainment will be split into two temporary units, which will both be called Liberty Entertainment....

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-09] DirecTV named Pepsi Co. CEO Michael White as its new president and CEO, replacing DirecTV interim CEO Larry Hunter effective Jan. 1, DirecTV announced Nov. 18.    White will retire from Pepsi at the end of the year and also joins DirecTV’s board of directors.    Before joining Pepsi as vice president...

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-09] Harris Corp. has provided its Harris One end-to-end broadcast channel playout solution to Rotana TV in order to upgrade the broadcaster’s central master control room, Harris announced Nov. 18.     Harris provided Rotana with Nexio technology, automation, servers, master control switchers, branding systems, routers, multiviewers and processing equipment. As part of the...

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-09] Ondas Media has signed a content co-operation agreement with Jazz FM, a leading U.K. jazz radio channel, the company announced Nov. 17. The partnership will see distribution of Jazz FM’s content on the Ondas Media digital satellite radio platform to be broadcast across the internationally recognized borders of 27 European countries.     ...

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-09] Canal 3 Benin has joined the GlobeCast platform on Astra 4A (Sirius 4) at 5 degrees East, GlobeCast announced Nov. 16.     GlobeCast receives Canal 3’s signal via satellite in C-band at its Paris technical operations center. The feed is then uplinked to GlobeCast’s sub-Saharan Africa distribution platform on the Astra 4A...

[Satellite News 11-17-09] Marcus Englert, director of new media and diversification at ProSiebenSat.1, believes that the German consumer broadcast market is now ready for HD.     ProSiebenSat.1 Media, one of Germany’s top broadcasters, announced in July that three of its channels, Sat.1, ProSieben and kabel eins will be broadcast in HD via HD Plus’s new...

[Satellite TODAY 11-17-09] Winegard has introduced the RoadTrip Minimax, an in-motion RV satellite TV antenna with a 20-inch diameter, the company announced Nov. 16.      The fully automatic antenna is equipped with a one-button on and off control located inside the RV and DVB technology to enable the antenna to more accurately lock onto signals...

[Satellite TODAY 11-11-09] Measat Satellite Systems reached an agreement with Rainbow Media and Ascent Media to distribute Rainbow Media’s Sundance and WE TV channels across the Asia-Pacific region via the Measat-3a satellite, the operator announced Nov. 11.     Ascent Media will contribute a complete file-based workflow and fully automated playout system, operated in a shared...

[Satellite TODAY 11-11-09] The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has re-elected Marcel Fenez, global director of entertainment and media practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers, as its chairman, CASBAA announced Nov. 10.     Robert Gilby, senior vice president and managing director of Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) was named as a new member of CASBAA’s...

[Satellite TODAY 11-11-09] International Launch Services (ILS) received a contract from Sirius XM Radio to launch the XM-5 satellite on an ILS Proton in 2010, ILS announced Nov. 10.      XM-5, the fifth Sirius XM satellite in the constellation to be launched by an ILS Proton, was built by Space Systems/Loral and is based on...