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CONNECTICUT: Panamsat, which claims to be one of the world’s top three satellite operators managing a global fleet of 30 satellites, has reported its financial results...
LONDON: The consolidated revenues for fixed satellite services (FSS) companies in 2002 has actually dropped, says Euroconsult’s latest analysis. In the 10th edition of its World...
MUMBAI: The Karishma imbroglio notwithstanding, Sahara Manoranjan has been gaining viewership for its entertainment programmes. As per the recently released TAM media report for Hindi speaking...
NEW DELHI: A limited edition of conditional access in the four metros, especially in Delhi and Mumbai, is on its way. The MSOs and cable operators...
PHOENIX, ARIZONA: Antenna Technology Communications which provides satellite communications systems has announced that Nielsen Media Research has selected the ATCi Simulsat C/Ku Multibeam antenna solution. ...
LONDON: This could be the way India goes in a post-CAS environment – free to air channels leading growth in the satellite TV market. Multichannel and...
Theres a lot of wishful thinking going on in government. That it can and should control pricing. That too, in a country which is moving from...
As uncertainty continues to swirl around the rollout of conditional access systems in the country, the belief that it might be better to wait for direct...
NEW DELHI: The multi-system operators are serious on implementation of conditional access system (CAS). The first consignment of set-top boxes (STBs) ordered by the Subhash Chandra-promoted...
MUMBAI: Cable Quest, a cable and satellite publication, has announced a seminar CAS Myth & Reality in The Park Hotel in New Delhi on 6 June....
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has announced that the third annual Casbaa Satellite Industry Forum will be held on 28 October...
MUMBAI: A success story in the war against the cable pirate. Only it is far removed from Indian shores. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of...
Indian television takes a leap forward once every decade. While television entered into our country in the early seventies, the first major television revolution took place...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Insat-3A satellite’s solar array and the two Antennas have been deployed. This follows the succesful placement of the next...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Atlas 3B(AC -204), the two-stage rocket capable of lifting payloads of upto 4500 kgs carried an Asian communication satellite, Asiasat 4, in space...
MUMBAI: The timing was certainly apt. As American-led forces marched into Baghdad, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp, which has made no bones about it’s unambiguous...
HYDERABAD: Tomorrow Indias first paid digital Telugu satellite television channel MAA TV will celebrate one year of operation. MAA carved a path of its own in...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it is working with SmartJog, a global content distribution service provider, to provide digital store-and-forward delivery of video content over satellite...
MUMBAI: After news channels, its time for radio! Sahara Swar, the first satellite radio in Mumbai’s suburban trains, will start by July this year. ...
LONDON: BBC may be making gains due to the Iraq conflict but its reach has been dealt a blow in Israel. The Jewish state’s three cable...
NEW DELHI: Well, news is filtering out from the closely guarded headquarters of the Capital-based TV software company-and-soon-to-turn-broadcaster NDTV. The two proposed news channels from Prannoy...
MUMBAI: B4U India operations vice president Vijay Thaker feels that the budget is a fair mix of reforms and procedural changes. Thaker says: “The budget...
MUMBAI:The emergence of the HITS (headend in the sky) operator is on the anvil in the fast changing broadcast scenario in the country, even as confusion...
Hong Kong: Intelsat and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) have struct an agreement to provide a new pay-television service for Hong Kong. Through the agreement, Intelsat will...
PARIS: One of Eutelsat’s major clients, GlobeCast has announced the launch of its new proprietary digital DTH platform on the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite via its...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
PARIS: Unfavourable weather conditions at the Spaceport in French Guiana have forced the delay of Arianespace’s Flight 159 with the Intelsat 907 satellite payload. The...
The road to a digital future ought to be paved with good intentions! Or so the powers that be would have liked to have it! But...
CHENNAI: Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is gearing up to promote its faith channel TBN India in the western and northern parts of the country. TBN channel...
MUMBAI: Two crucial space missions have been slated for 2003. First will be the placing of Insat 3A, the indigenous communication satellite in orbit by hi-tech...
CONNECTICUT: PanAmSat, the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite has reported revenues of $812.3 million for the year ended 31 December...
MUMBAI: Solomon Smith Barney (SSB) claims that the subscription revenues will eventually be linked to the content quality and the viewership. This will reiterate the fact...
KOUROU: The independent inquiry board that will determine the causes of Flight 157’s launch failure will begin its work on 16 December 2002. The attempted first...
NEW YORK : It was a deal that could have created a satellite behemoth. But US satellite television service provider EchoStar Communications Corp, on Tuesday said...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s (Casbaa 2002) conference ended on 5 December in Singapore’s splendid Esplanade Theatres on Bay complex on a...
MUMBAI: Recent Zee acquisition ETC Networks Limited announced today that its board would meet on Monday, 28 October to consider the unaudited financial results for the...
PARIS: Eutelsat has announced that the latest addition to its fleet of broadcasting satellites Hot Bird 6 has entered into commercial service and is now beaming...
She started as an assistant director, grew to be the director of the first and one of the most successful satellite soaps and has not looked...
MUMBAI:Thailand’s Shin Satellite PLc announced yesterday that India’s Department of Space (DoS) has extended the existing transponder leasing contract for seven C-band transponders on the Thaicom-3...
USA: PanAmSat which claims to be the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite and BT Broadcast Services have announced the formation...
While broadcasters, MSOs, cable ops and consumers grapple the possibilities and frailties of CAS in India, set top box (STB) manufacturers are dealing with the more...
Arianespace’s eighth mission of the year, a dual telecommunications satellite launch, will take place on 5 July. A heavy-lift Ariane 5 will loft the dual telecommunications...
Pakistan is negotiating a satellite deal with European and US operators to buy two satellites, one to occupy the 38 E orbital slot allotted to the...
The second CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum got underway today at Singapore, with an audience of 200 senior industry professionals from across the world in attendance. The...
Intelsat announced today that at 2:44 a.m. EDT the Intelsat 905 satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 44L vehicle. The satellite is expected to be...
B4U, the music channel, which is making a hard play at finding its place in the crowded channel bazaar in India, is slated to debut tomorrow,...
The R.Basu-Murdoch promoted Braodcast Worldwide has signed a memorandum of understanding with Win Television Pty under which the latter will carry the four Tara channels on...
Another bird has gone up in the sky with its eye on the Indian market. Americom Asia-Pacific (AAP)’s GE-1A satellite was launched successfully yesterday by ILS...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has announced eight new memberships for the regional multi-channel television industry body. The memberships have been...
Satnews, the comprehensive resource centre covering the satellite, broadband and broadcasting industries, has released its 2002 international satellite directory. The directory, used by satellite professionals, has...
