Focus: Broadcasting

The Conditional Access (CA) market has been dominated by industry heavyweights NDS and the Kudelski Group, as both companies have beefed up their offerings in recent years and now offer range of middleware (interactive) and security services. For players such as Viaccess, the question is whether they can continue to compete effectively in such a...

[10-11-07 – Satellite Today]  RAMTelecom Inc. has been awarded a $468,000 contract by ShopCast to provide satellite services to support the EK3 Narrowcasting network in Wal-Mart Canada stores, RAMTelecom announced Oct. 10. ShopCast will use RAMTelecom services to enable the EK3 Narrowcasting Network to run Wal-Mart’s closed circuit TV. The in-store network is built around...

[10-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Sirius Canada has achieved more than 500,000 subscribers across the country, the company announced Oct. 11. The company, which was introduced in Canada 22 months ago, has added more than 200,000 subscribers since February, and holds 82 percent market share in Canada’s satellite radio market. Sirius Canada has partnerships with more...

[10-10-07 – Satellite Today]  Measat, the satellite operator based out of Malaysia, has signed new agreements, which signal its entrance into the south Asia video distribution markets, the company announced Oct. 10. It said today that Pacific Century Matrix (PCM), a provider of satellite-based television broadcast solutions, has signed agreements to use the Measat-3 satellite...

[10-10-07 – Satellite Today] The second satellite for the Ariane 5 mission scheduled for a Nov. 9 launch has been delivered to the Spaceport in French Guiana,        Arianespace announced Oct. 9. Thales Alenia Space’s Star One C1 spacecraft arrived at Cayenne Rochambeau International Airport aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo airliner, and was transported to the...

[10-10-07 – Satellite Today]  OmniBus Systems, a provider of comprehensive broadcast automation and content management solutions,  is expanding operations in the Asia-Pacific region following significant installations at broadcasters including NDTV, Astro, TV3, Discovery and Ascent Media, the company announced Oct. 9. "The Asia-Pacific region as a whole is experiencing a dynamic period of growth and...

[10-09-07 – Satellite Today]  The Modern Times Group (MTG), owners of the Viasat direct-to-home (DTH) platform, and Canal Digital have reached a deal that will enable all DTH subscribers to have access to the top rated channels in Norway. The deal, announced Oct. 8, is a non-exclusive agreement where both parties have agreed not to...

‘N’, the Polish direct-to-home (DTH) platform, owned by ITI Neovision, a subsidiary of the ITI Group, one of Poland’s leading media and entertainment groups, is one of a wave of new, innovative operators proliferating in the pay-TV markets of eastern Europe. ‘N’ is making quite a splash in Poland, one of the larger markets in...

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today] Middle East consultancy   Arab Advisors says there has been huge growth in the number of Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite channels in the Middle East. The company said Oct. 7 that the Arab world’s FTA satellite TV channels have grown by a "massive”270 percent between January 2004 and August 2007. By mid-August 2007,...

[10-08-07 – Satellite Today]  Intelsat Ltd and Telenor Satellite Broadcasting have completed an agreement for Intelsat to purchase 10 transponders on Telenor’s Thor 6 satellite, the companies announced Oct. 8. Intelsat will gain additional capacity to expand its direct to home (DTH) business within Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to further develop 1ËšWest...