Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today 04-07-09] Satlynx has purchased a “significant volume” of capacity on the Arabsat-5A satellite from Arabsat, Satlynx announced April 6.     The capacity deal covers the entire African and Middle Eastern regions as well as most of Central Asia. Satlynx says it already is working with customers to scope, design and begin the build...

[Satellite Today 04-06-09] SES Americom-New Skies signed a three-year capacity deal with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle for capacity aboard SES Americom’s Digital C platform, SES announced April 3.     Deutsche Welle will use 4.5 megabits per second of capacity on AMC-1 to deliver programming to cable headends and German, Spanish and English-speaking television viewers and...

[Satellite News 04-02-09] With many telcos now established as TV providers in their home markets, the question as to what impact this will have on the satellite sector was a prevalent one during SATELLITE 2009. “IPTV had been a success story for several telcos, while others are struggling,” John Krzywicki, partner at Analysys Mason’s U.S....

[Satellite Today 04-02-09] German pay-TV operator Premiere signed a deal with SES Astra to lease one-and-a-half additional transponders at Astra’s orbital position 19.2 degrees East in an effort to increase Premiere’s high-definition (HD) offering to subscribers, Premiere announced April 1.     According to recent market research studies conducted on behalf of SES Astra, 219,000 HDTV...

[Satellite Today 04-02-09] Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) won a set-top box contract with Israeli DTH operator, Yes, to provide the company with ADB’s 7820SX high-definition (HD) digital video recorder, ADB announced March 31.     This agreement follows an initial supply order of HD set-top boxes when Yes launched its HD service in 2007. With the...

[Satellite Today 04-02-09] Gulfcom signed a five-year distribution agreement with SES New Skies to leverage a full transponder of capacity aboard SES’ AMC-3 satellite, which will service the Caribbean region and fill in programming niches, SES announced April 1.     “The satellite coverage allows us to provide super station programming as well as top sports,...

[Satellite Today 04-01-09] Net Insight has won a transport solution deal with Italian satellite operator Telespazio, Net Insight announced March 30.     Telespazio, a provider of technologies for the broadcasting, distribution and transport of satellite signals, will deploy Net Insight’s Nimbra platform for a multiservice video contribution network in Italy. Net Insight develops media transport...

Tandberg Television’s operations are based on the progress of multimedia technology delivery methods. In the last year, the company has made notable steps in advanced compression systems, on-demand and content distribution solutions that are used by some of the world’s leading broadcasters, operators and programmers. Tandberg closed 2008 with a series a series of impressive...

[Satellite Today 04-01-09] GlobeCast renewed its lease with Eutelsat to use five Hot Bird transponders for broadcasting in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, GlobeCast announced March 30.     GlobeCast signed for a seven-year extension of all five transponder contracts.     From several of its 12 facilities worldwide, GlobeCast uplinks five digital multiplexes to...

With the continuing economic collapse, people in every industry are wondering how their particular sector will perform. In the satellite sector, there has been considerable opinion that satellite would do well. I believe that this is generally true, particularly in video distribution, where long contracts and growing demand will insulate the satellite industry from economic...