Focus: Broadcasting

[12-20-07 – Satellite Today] Wegener Corp. has received orders worth more than $1.4 million for its Unity 552 Enterprise Media Receiver, Wegener announced Dec. 20.     The orders are expected to be the first of a series of orders from the unnamed customer for a complete network upgrade to the Unity 552.     “Wegener designed...

[12-20-07 – Satellite News] The role of satellites in mobile television in Europe has been bought into sharper focus as Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI to launch the first trial of mobile TV based on the DVB-SH (digital video broadcasting–satellite services to handhelds) has been launched...

[12-19-07 – Satellite Today] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. completed the first phase of a turnkey satellite network solution for Vivo, Gilat announced Dec. 18.     Vivo, a customer of Brazil’s Telecomunicações de Sao Paulo (Telesp), deployed a GSM network using Gilat’s SkyAbis technology to provide backhaul and trunking to remote sites in north, northeast and...

[12-19-07 – Satellite Today] WorldSpace Satellite Radio has appointed Roberto Zaino, a pioneer of the radio broadcasting industry in Italy, as content director for WorldSpace Italia, the company announced Dec. 18.     Zaino launched Radio Milano International more than 30 years ago and also founded and ran his own media production company, creating numerous projects...

[12-19-07 – Satellite News] French broadcaster AB Groupe has launched a new satellite pay-TV platform, BIS, hoping to exploit the demand for low-cost pay-TV in France.     The basic package consists of 25 channels for a price of 4.90 euros ($7.18) a month and will throw down the gauntlet to the more expensive satellite, cable...

[12-18-07 – Satellite Today] Envivio Inc. will provide a video headend for Tus Telekom‘s standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) IPTV services in Slovenia, Envivio announced Dec. 18.      Tus Telecom will use the Convergence Generation headend to expand its existing SD IPTV to 108 channels, add six channels of HD content and migrate from MPEG-2...

[12-18-07 – Satellite Today] Israel’s Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) has signed broadcast deals in Hungary, Slovenia and Romania for transponder space on the Amos satellites, the company announced Dec. 18.     In  Romania, Spaceom signed a three-year deal with the Bucovina and Moldavia Church to broadcast Trinitas TV. In Slovenia, Spacecom signed a five-year contract...

[12-18-07 – Satellite Today] U.K. communications regulator Ofcom has published a consultation document investigating the pay-TV market which suggests that the regulator does not necessarily believe that there are issues with competition in the marketplace, a major boost for BSkyB.     The regulator is examining the competitiveness of the pay-TV market and whether customers are...

[12-14-07 – Satellite Today] Alcatel Lucent announced Dec. 14 that it had teamed up with mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI to launch the first trial of Mobile TV based on the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds) standard in Italy.     The trial will take place in Turin,...

[12-14-07 – Satellite Today] OpenTV, a provider of advanced television and interactive services, has been boosted by the news of a new deal with one of Europe’s leading DTH operators. The company announced Dec. 13 that it had signed a deal with Sky Italia, which has renewed its middleware licence agreement with OpenTV. Sky Italia...