Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today 10-28-08] Harmonic Inc., a provider of broadcast and on-demand video delivery solutions, reported net sales of $91.5 million in its third quarter 2008 results, up 11 percent from $82.3 million in the third quarter of 2007, the company announced Oct. 27.     International sales represented 39 percent of Harmonic’s revenue in its most...

[Satellite Today 10-24-08] NDS has seen a sharp decrease in operating profits as well as a fall in revenues in the 2009 first quarter, the company announced Oct. 23.     NDS, a supplier of conditional access and middleware solutions to satellite pay-TV operators, reported revenues of $182.2 million in the period that closed at the...

[Satellite News 10-23-08] Cyfrowy Polsat has staked a place as a satellite success story in Eastern Europe, as the company has overtaken Cyfra+ Cyfrowy to become the largest DTH operator in Poland. Cyfrowy Polsat has about 2.3 million subscribers and wants become much more of a force on the Polish communications landscape overall, recently launching...

[Satellite Today 10-23-08] Viasat will launch video-on-demand (VoD) services to its satellite subscriber base in Sweden within  a week, with plans to expand the availability of the service across Scandinavia, the company announced Oct. 22.         The DTH operator hopes ViasatOnDemand, a premium service for ViasatPlusHD subscribers, will stem its steady tide of subscriber...

[Satellite Today 10-23-08] RRsat has launched an additional platform on Galaxy-25 satellite Ku-Band, which provides services to DTH viewers and cable operators in the United States, RRSat announced Oct. 23.     The Galaxy 25 satellite, located at 97 degrees West, provides ethnic video content, offering programmers and content distributors access to millions of homes in...

[Satellite Today 10-23-08] LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, provided a turnkey solution to the U.S. Geological Survey allowing the agency to turn over the 1.710 to 1.755 GHz spectrum in the San Francisco Bay area, LGS announced Oct. 23.     The spectrum was auctioned to the wireless industry in August 2006 for $13.8 billion as...

[Satellite News 10-22-08] Viasat Broadcasting continues to see the numbers of DTH subscribers fall in Scandinavia, the company announced Oct. 21. The company, a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group (MTG), had 755,000 DTH subscribers in the Nordic region at the end of September, down 15,000 subscribers compared to the end of June.     However,...

[Satellite News 10-22-08] RRSat Global Communications Network will provide uplink and playout services for the new Fashion TV Paris high-definition channel, FTV HD, over Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and Africa, the network announced Oct. 22.     The new channel is available in Asia, Australia and Africa via the Thaicom 5 satellite and in Europe,...

[Satellite Today 10-21-08] Eutelsat Communications signed an extended capacity deal with Roots Global, a new pan-European TV platform for South Asian communities in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.     The new platform is managed by Singapore-based Spize TV, majority-owned by Global Asia Partners — an investment group dedicated to investing in high potential...

[Satellite Today 10-21-08] SES Astra has seen a significant increase in the number of high-definition (HD) channels broadcast via its Astra satellite system, the company said Oct. 20.     At the beginning of October, the number of HD channels broadcast on the system reached 55, an increase of 13 channels, or 30 percent, since August....