Focus: Broadcasting

[Satellite Today – 3-5-08] SES New Skies will offer satellite capacity to international broadcasters for providing live coverage of the Olympics Games, the company announced March 5.     SES New Skies renewed its China resale agreement, allowing TV coverage around the globe via the SES New Skies satellite fleet. SES New Skies has been contracted...

[Satellite Today – 3-5-08] RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. will distribute Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s public television broadcasting service, to Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East, RRsat announced March 4.     RRSat has been distributing SVT to Asia through the Thaicom-5 satellite for the past three years. The expansion of services will be distributed...

[Satellite Today – 3-4-08] SatLink Communications will launch Daystar Television Network to SatLink’s AsiaSat 2 digital platform, SatLink announced March 4.     The Christian TV network will join SatLink’s bouquet of spiritual channels delivered to the Asian market via AsiaSat 2, which provides C-band coverage of China, India, Indonesia and 50 other countries.     "I...

[Satellite News – 3-4-08] In the final panel of SATELLITE 2008, “Satellite SWOT: Challenges and Opportunities for Satellite Enabled Communications”, industry executives discussed a variety of issues as well as casting an eye in to the future on what might be some of the hot talking points at SATELLITE 2009.     The Feb. 28 panel...

 

[Satellite Today – 3-3-08] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) signed a long-term capacity deal with Russia’s RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd., ABS announced March 1.     Under the agreement, ABS will distribute Channel One Russia on the southern Ku-band beam of its ABS-1 satellite to reach Russian viewers throughout Asia.     “Channel One Russia will join...

 

[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio will not exercise a termination clause in their merger agreement, extending the deal to May 1 while they continue to await U.S. government approval, the companies announced Feb. 29.     The two satellite radio companies announced in February 2007 a plan to combine their...

[Satellite News – 2-28-08] Israeli satellite operator Space-Communication Ltd (Spacecom) attracted the attention of SES in January, and the world’s second largest satellite operator made a bid for the owners of the Amos constellation.     But Spacecom turned down SES’s bid due to the price and the conditions of the deal. “Concerning the company’s debts,...

[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] Wegener Corp. is teaming up with ViaSat Inc. to support live video broadcasts over a VSAT network, Wegener announced Feb. 27.     Using standard ViaSat LinkStar uplink and downlink equipment, Wegener added live high-definition and standard-definition video streams to a VSAT network traditionally used to transmit data files. The video was...