Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today 04-16-09] Eutelsat has moved its Kabelkiosk digital cable platform to the Eurobird 9A satellite, Eutelsat company announced April 15.     Eutelsat Deutschland said that with the move, Kabelkiosk platform, which offers German and international content, will make a significant contribution to the full transition to digital of cable markets in the regions it...

[Satellite Today 04-16-09] Tandberg Television won a contribution deal with Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU), Egypt’s national broadcaster, to supply Tandberg’s MPEG-2 encoding solutions, Tandberg announced April 14.     The MPEG-2 encoders are part of ERTU’s efforts to expand its SDH microwave network covering the Red Sea and North Coast Sinai. The expanded network...

[Satellite Today 04-15-09] Liberty Sports Group signed a multi-year contract with Intelsat for satellite capacity to distribute its three regional sports networks to viewers across the United States, Liberty announced April 14.      Liberty will use capacity on Intelsat’s Galaxy 17 satellite, located at 97 degrees West, to broadcast the FSN Northwest, FSN Pittsburgh and...

[Satellite Today 04-15-09] SatLink Communications signed a deal with SES Astra to acquire capacity on SES Astra’s Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite, SatLink announced April 14.     Astra 4A, located at 5 degrees East, will host SatLink’s new multi-channel per carrier  broadcasting platform, which aims to reach sub-Saharan African customers with free-to-air and encrypted DTH...

[Satellite Today 04-14-09] Crawford Satellite Services has launched the All Sports Network (ASN), a live sports channel, in high definition (HD) to Asian audiences, marking its official entrance in the region, Crawford announced April 13.     Hong Kong-based Yes TV Network, who runs and operates ASN and other sports channels in Asia, selected Crawford for...

[Satellite Today 04-13-09] Harris Corp. released new enhancements to its Nexio family of video servers, the company announced April 8.     The enhancements include direct file importing of both GXF (SMPTE 360M) and Avid MediaStream MPEG files. These capabilities, coupled with the Nexio server’s ability to accommodate multiple software codecs, aim to streamline the broadcast...

[Satellite Today 04-10-09] Newtec will unveil two mobile TV space products — the AZ810 stream aggregator and the HZ914 multistream satellite receiver, the company announced April 9.     The new offerings support DVB-S2 multistream technology for the primary distribution of digital terrestrial and mobile TV content over satellite.     Multistream is a satellite transmission solution...

[Satellite Today 04-09-09] Fransat, a free French digital terrestrial television (DTT) offer, will launch in June with a majority of the channels available via Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird 3 satellite, Eutelsat announced April 8.     Assembled by Eutelsat in the Fransat platform, the 18 channels will be available with no subscription fee to all homes equipped...

[Satellite News 04-09-09] DirecTV already has seen better than expected take-up of its video-on-demand (VOD) services launched in spring 2008, DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual told Satellite News. “We are seeing high levels of consumer satisfaction. We also have a number of improvements coming,” he said.     The U.S. satellite pay-TV operator, which has about 18...

[Satellite Today 04-08-09] Half of U.K. television households are using pay-TV service, according to the Digital Progress Report released by Ofcom April 6.     According to the report, 49.5 percent of households either had a pay-satellite or cable service on their main TV set by the end of 2008. The report also claims that BSkyB...