Focus: Broadcasting

Telekom Austria TA launched a satellite global service package for international Internet service providers and government organizations, the company announced April 27.     The service bundle has been created specifically to be deployed on the Telstar 11N satellite. Telekom Austria and Telestar have been in a partnership since 2004.     The new service package includes...

Dolby Laboratories partnered with Arqiva to launch Dolby Direct Distribution Services, a European satellite content delivery network for digital cinemas, Arqiva announced April 27.     The service uses Arqiva’s international satellite infrastructure to distribute feature movies, trailers, and advertising content direct to participating exhibitors and cinemas. Dolby’s JPEG 2000 compression and two-pass encoding system will...

While floor traffic at NAB 2009 was better-than-expected for the IPTV sector, the show has been a continuation of a trend that leaves IPTV under-delivered and over-exposed, according to a sales representative for satellite and IP receiver manufacturer Atlanta DTH, who asked not to be named for this story.     “As usual, we have been...

This year’s NAB show was the first that I have attended and both my feet and my organizational skills are still in recovery mode. While carrying several bags full of press kits, CD demos and magazines at the Las Vegas airport, several attendees quickly identified me as a newbie and asked me if my feet...

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Zcom Networks finalized an agreement with TIN Network for the North American broadcast launch of Zcom’s Smart Money Network channel via satellite, Internet and fiber optic transmission, Zcom announced April 27.     Smart Money Network, a financial and business broadcasting channel, will be broadcast via Intelsat’s Galaxy 25 satellite to more than...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] German pay-TV operator Premiere has sold its 44 percent stake in Internet sports platform, Spox.com to the CRESCES Group, the company said April 22.     Premiere, a DTH operator in Germany, said the decision was in line with its strategy to focus on its core business.     Premiere said future Internet activities...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] Viasat Broadcasting, a Modern Times Group (MTG) subsidiary has 822,000 DTH subscribers, a across the Nordic region at the end of March, a loss of 10,000 customers when compared to the same period in 2009, according to ViaSat’s first quarter 2009 results released April 22.     At the end of March, Viasat...

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] International Datacasting Corp.‘s (IDC) wholly owned subsidiary, ProFline B.V., has been awarded a contract to provide a next-generation satellite distribution network to German public broadcaster Sud-West-Rundfunk (SWR), IDC announced April 23.     ProFline will provide an end-to-end system to SWR, based in Stuttgart, covers Southwestern Germany and reaches an estimated 14.7 million...

Maui LLC, a consortium of six broadcast stations headquartered in Hawaii, has deployed Harmonic’s ProStream 1000 stream-processing solutions and NMX digital service manager for a network rebuild, Harmonic announced April 22.     Harmonic said Maui’s system needed to be upgraded due to television transmissions that interfered with the astronomy community and equipment that threatened the...

Dish Network has launched Dish Earth, a channel offering live views of Earth, passing views of the moon, Venus, and unidentified flying object, the company announced April 22.     The Dish Earth channel content is supported by a camera installed on Dish Network’s EchoStar 11 satellite, launched into geo-synchronous orbit at 110 degrees West in...