Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today – 3-24-08] The Measat-3A satellite will be launched aboard a Land Launch rocket Aug. 21, Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced.     Measat-3a, built by Orbital Sciences Corp., will be co-located with Measat-3 at 91.5° East and carry 12 C-band transponders providing coverage across a region bounded by Africa and Eastern Europe in...

[Satellite Today – 3-24-08] Financial investor Avenue Capital Group has acquired 6.5 percent of German pay-TV operator Premiere Star GmbH from Premiere GmbH & Co., Premiere announced June 24. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.     Premiere Star, launched commercial satellite pay-TV service in September and has more than 170,000 subscribers in Germany. Premiere...

[Satellite Today – 3-24-08] Arqiva has won a contract to provide video services using MPEG-4 technology to U.K. armed forces stationed overseas, Arqiva said June 23.     Under a contract from Services Sound & Vision Corp. (SSVC), Arqiva will increase the number of British Forces Broadcasting Service channels broadcast to U.K. armed forces personnel stationed...

 

[Satellite Today – 6-23-08] Alcatel-Lucent has announced a deal which should boost its plan to derive revenues from the Asian mobile TV market, linking up with SpeedCast Ltd. to jointly market, deploy and operate a shared, hosted DVB-H (digital video broadcast–handheld) platform for mobile TV operators in Asia, Alcatel-Lucent announced June 20.     The objective...

[Satellite Today – 6-20-08] Measat Satellite Systems has signed a significant new HD deal with National Geographic Channel Asia, the company announced June 19. The deal between the two parties sees the National Geographic Channel HD and two other SD channels, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild to be distributed on a Measat-operated satellite...

[Satellite Today – 6-19-08] Freesat aims to establish a strong niche for itself in the U.K. digital TV market. The new FTA satellite offering, from the BBC and ITV, which was launched in May this year enters into a crowded market where pay-TV satellite (BSkyB) has around nine million subscribers and the Digital Terrestrial Television...

[Satellite Today – 6-18-08] Foxtel, the Australian DTH operator, it set to launch its new HD+ service this Sunday, the operator said June 18. Foxtel also said that more than 15,000 Foxtel subscribing homes have already upgraded to Foxtel HD+ and the Foxtel iQ2 set-top-unit. The launch is a high-profile one in Australia and will...

[Satellite Today – 6-17-08] Tandberg Television has won further business from leading Korean DTH operator, Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting Co. Ltd., more universally recognized under its ‘SkyLife’ brand name, the company said June 17. Tandberg will be upgrading the satellite head-end system for SkyLife.     The enhanced MPEG-4 AVC system will allow SkyLife to expand...

[Satellite Today – 6-17-08] GlobeCast, like Thuraya, is also expanding its activities into the Asian region. The company, which recently announced a deal to acquire Pacific Century Matrix (PCM) in Hong Kong, said June 17 that it is to open a new open playout center in Singapore in October. GlobeCast Asia announced a deal to...