Today, we collect the hot topics on broadcasting in the past month. Now let’s go explore what happen in broadcasting world. News 1: RRSat Launches 24-Hours HD Sports Channel on Galaxy 23 RRsat Global Communications Network has launched Fight Now TV, a 24-hour HD sports channel on EchoStar’s Ku-band payload on the Galaxy 23 satellite,… Read More »
IPTV showed “exceptional” growth in the 12 months to March of this year, with the number of worldwide subscribers increasing by over 34% in the period to reach 48.2mn, according to new figures announced by the Broadband Forum.
SMIT (State Micro Technology Corporation) has supplied a new Secure Conax chipset pairing Conditional Access Module (CAM) to support ER-Telecom’s HD service expansion in Russia.
Neotion, a French based provider of highly?sophisticated processors (SoC) and Advanced CI & CI Plus Modules for Pay TV operators’ has been selected by ITI Neovision, a leading Polish DTH Pay TV operator as their exclusive supplier of CI Plus Conax Modules, for their HD satellite bouquet in Poland. The Neotion CI Plus Conax Chipset… Read More »
Consumer expenditures on entertainment media in North America and Europe grew a hefty 69% between 2000 and 2010 to reach USD 234.8bn, with cable and satellite TV retaining top slot as the leading form of entertainment media during the preceding ten years (or “noughties” as some have described them), according to a new report from… Read More »
Satellite TV platforms (both analogue and digital) will overtake cable TV in terms of users in Western Europe by 2015, according to a new report from German research firm InfoCom, with satellite platforms expected to total 52.4mn households in the region compared to cable’s 47.6mn.
During the switch to digital-only television, applications for satellite TV smart card activations are being processed at a rate of up to 600 every week indicating the move away from analog is not only to terrestrial broadcasts, but also to satellite. To help prevent people from being left without any signal during the switch to… Read More »
WARSAW — It is called Belsat TV, and it is the first and only independent satellite television channel for Belarus, broadcasting news and current affairs as well as cultural and children’s programs like “The Adventures of Uszatek the Bear.” Krzysztof Powidel/Belsat TV Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, the founder and director of Belsat TV, was jailed by the Communist… Read More »
AT&T has listed a new exclusive AT&T U-verse offer for AT&T wireless customers that sign up for U-verse services. AT&T wireless customer can take advantage of this new offer if they add a U-verse Satellite TV and Internet bundle. They would receive a $45 monthly discount for six months — covering the cost of U-verse Internet… Read More »
Tucson-based Channel Choice TV expands its commercial portfolio to include sporting venues, specifically the Kino Sports Complex, home of the Triple-A Tucson Padres. In addition to the many residences and businesses that already rely on Channel Choice TV every month, the company expands service to include larger local businesses, while still sustaining their passion to… Read More »