Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite News 08-05-09] Canal+ hopes its recent deal with Microsoft to make its content available through the Xbox 360 video games console will help it gain stronger audiences, particularly among the younger parts of the French population, Frederic Vincent, business development director for Canal+ told Satellite News     Vincent said the deal, announced in June...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] GlobeCast has signed a deal with China Central Television (CCTV) to distribute CCTV’s newly-launched Arabic channel to the Middle East and North Africa via Arabsat’s BADR-6 satellite, GlobeCast announced Aug. 3.     In addition to a satellite distribution solution, GlobeCast will provide CCTV with fiber backhaul, allowing the MENA regional channel to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Sky Deutschland has appointed Wolfram Winter senior vice president of distribution and development, the company announced July 31.     Winter will be responsible for further developing co-operative relationships with all German cable networks, as well as with distribution partners in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.       Winter co-founded Premiere Star in March 2007...

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] BSkyB has hit a five-year annual subscriber net growth high in 2009, according to its full-year results, released July 30.     The U.K. operator expanded its customer base by 124,000 subscribers in its fourth quarter, which closed at the end of June, to reach 9.4 million total subscribers — a growth of...

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Vislink News and Entertainment is adding electronic news gathering (ENG) antennas to its range of SNG, ENG and wireless products for the broadcast industry, Vislink announced July 29.     The antennas are designed and manufactured by NSI, a developer of advanced remote controls and airborne, mobile and central receiver antenna systems for...

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Eutelsat has signed a capacity deal with GlobeCast for a transponder to broadcast channels by Romanian public broadcaster TVR, the operator announced July 29.     Eutelsat said the deal will double TVR’s resources at 16 degrees East orbital slot and enable the broadcaster to increase signal quality and support new channel growth...

[Satellite Today 07-29-09] Triveni Digital has signed a reseller contract with broadcast systems supplier Promexar to extend Triveni’s worldwide reseller network in Mexico, the company announced July 28.     Promexar will sell the full line of Triveni Digital products, including solutions for managing data and metadata in digital TV streams. The reseller will also provide...

[Satellite Today 07-28-09] EchoStar Satellite Services signed an agreement to deliver its ViP-TV IP video transport service to Citizens Cablevision, a broadband data, video and voice provider in Virginia, EchoStar announced July 27.     EchoStar will transport up to 42 high-definition TV channels to the customer’s IP headend. The ViP-TV transport service aims to offer...

[Satellite Today 07-28-09] Pace signed two separate contracts to supply high-definition (HD) set-top box and (direct-to-home) DTH technology to Sky Deutschland in Germany and Canal Digital in the Nordic region, Pace announced July 27.     Starting in August, Pace will support Sky Deutschland’s HD expansion plans across its territories. Sky, formerly Premiere, will acquire the...

[Satellite Today 07-27-09] Canal Digital, a Nordic pay-TV operator, saw an increase in profits for in the second quarter at $17.89 million compared to $4.27 million in 2008, the company said in its 2009 second quarter financial results, released July 23.     Canal Digital’s revenues mainly increased as an effect of higher penetration of additional...