Focus: Broadcasting

[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. will be using the Intelsat global network to expand their programming transmissions across three continents, Intelsat announced Sept. 5. RRSat contracted for capacity on Intelsat’s Galaxy 23 and Intelsat 10 satellites for content broadcasting throughout Africa, Asia and North America. The Intelsat 10 satellite, located at...

[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] Asian satellite customers in Europe will have 10 more channels to choose from, thanks to a new deal for additional channels signed between Intelsat and GlobeCast, Intelsat announced Sept. 5. GlobeCast signed additional channels for its WorldTV Direct-to-Home (DTH) service in Europe, including Aag, a south Asian youth-based channel, Aaj Tak,...

[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] Stratos Global Corp. is using its AmosConnect system to connect 34 Blue Star GmbH vessels, the company announced Sept. 5. Stratos previously outfitted Blue Star’s vessels with one license each, installed on an Inmarsat Fleet F77 satellite terminal. Blue Star will now use AmosConnect Crew, which enables crewmembers at sea to...

[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] PT Indonusa Telemedia has implemented Harmonic‘s technology into its direct-to-home satellite service in Indonesia, the company announced Sept. 4. Indonusa Telemedia is using Harmonic’s DiviCom Electra 1000 multi-channel MPEG-2 standard definition encoders, as well as the ProStream 1000 stream processing platform with ProCipher scrambling technology used for both multiplexing and encryption,...

[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] Hughes Network Systems LLC is providing remote areas of Siberia with remote satellite terminals, the company announced Sept. 4. Hughes is providing the technology to Iskra Research and Development, of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Iskra will support a wide range of Web applications, VPN services, Voice over IP (VoIP), videoconferencing and broadcast and...

Arabsat will distribut3 the BBC‘s Arabic TV station to the Middle East, Southern Mediterranean and Europe, Arabsat announced Sept. 3. The station, which is scheduled to launch in late 2007, will reach 164 million viewers via Arabsat Badr-4, which is located at 26° East. Separately, Kosmas Georing Services and Arabsat have agreed to cooperate on...

Newtec is launching its Equalink modulator feature, the company announced Sept. 3. Equalink is designed to compensate for the effects of imperfections in the filters and amplifiers of a satellite. The technology will be implemented in Newtec’s DVB-S and DVB-S2 modulators, and improves the performance of the end-to-end satellite communications channel, the company said. Equalink...

ND SatCom‘s technology partner, Augsburg, Germany-based satellite newsgathering service provider rt1.tv, will launch a new service this summer, ND SatCom announced Sept. 3. The service, dubbed Comfort.link, includes a network of satellite newsgathering vehicles operated by remote control via database that will transmit TV production content via satellite. ND SatCom’s will provide system integration vehicles...

Newtech and SES Astra signed a cooperation agreement to test and demonstrate a new way to deliver television content, the company said Sept. 4. The managed satellite distribution system will deliver several mobile TV channels from Betzdorf, Luxembourg, to remote and unmanned terrestrial transmission sites beginning this fall. The system will be operated on SES...

Satellite operators painted an optimistic picture for the years ahead with new growth opportunities as well as strong demand in core markets such as video. The industry is“in a dynamic phase,” Yves Blanc, director of strategic planning and institutional relations at Eutelsat, said Sept. 3 in Paris at  Euroconsult’s 5th World Symposium on Markets for...