March 18, 2008
Matthew Anderson, Sky's director of communications and brand marketing, is moving to parent company News Corp to become director of strategy for Europe and Asia. In his new post, he will lead communications, strategy, marketing and corporate and public affairs.
He follows former Sky chief executive James Murdoch who became chairman and chief ...
More changes at the top of Sky and News Corp
by Lin FreestoneFreesat service from RTÉ by 2009
by Lin Freestone
Champions League has a new home from 2009
by Alan Harten
March 17, 2008
Freesat is approaching its planned target of launching in spring 2008. A licence has been granted for the service's electronic programme guide.
The initial launch phase will focus on a targeted group of retailers - DSG, Comet, Argos and John Lewis - all of whom offer wide national coverage. Second phase retailers are yet to be confirmed.
Retail prices and registered ...
Preparations for Freesat launch
by Lin Freestone
March 12, 2008
The U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center announced today that they are awarding SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, their indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to supply SPAWAR with portable SATCOM terminals.
Six other companies also took parts of the contract, which has a total value of approximatly $491 million over the next five years. SWE-DISH is expected to take roughly ...
SPAWAR Contract Won By SWE-DISH
by Rohan Parker
March 10, 2008
The worlds current penultimate Christian television network, Daystar, have signed with SatLink Communications to offer their channel via SatLink's AsiaSat 2 MCPC (Multiple Channels Per Carrier) digital platform. This deal will allow millions of new viewers within Asia to pick up the channel.
SatLink currently have one of the widest selections of spiritual channels, especially in the Asian market.
SatLink is known for offering ...
Daystar Signs With SatLink
by Rohan Parker
March 7, 2008
At the annual Society of Satellite Professionals (SSPI) awards night WildBlue Communications Inc. were awarded with the 2008 Industry Innovator award due to a string of highly successful applications and service developments. David Leonard, WildBlue's CEO, accpeted the award on behalf of the entire company.
Last year saw WildBlue introduce two-way broadband internet service to both homes and businesses throughout the U.S., ...
WildBlue Communications Awarded By SSPI
by Rohan Parker
March 6, 2008
ITV2, together with ITV2+1, will begin broadcasting 24 hours a day on 17 March 2008. The director of operations at ITV's channels division considers that, as ITV2 is the number one digital channel in the UK, it is more than ready to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
As part of the changes, ITV2+1 will exchange ...
ITV2 to broadcast all day, every day
by Lin FreestonePlanned reshuffle of EPG by Sky
by Lin FreestoneWTA Award For CapRock Communications
by Rohan Parker IPTV Revenues To Hit $14bn By 2012
by Rohan Parker
March 5, 2008
Between them the USA, Canada and Europe, account for of 80% of worldwide revenues from DTH Satellite. These markets, and now mature and reaching saturation point, so now the focus is moving over to new developing markets in Eastern Europe and the Asian Pacific region.
By next year, it is predicted that the worldwide market for DTH will exceed ...
DTH Satellite grows rapidly around the world
by Alan Harten
March 3, 2008
Its been a while and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since the management teams from both Sky and Virgin Media have sat down and talked about the problems that has seen all of the Virgin Media subscribers lose the Sky basic channels, like Sky One, Sky News and Sky Sports News, which were taken away from the ...
Talks begin between Virgin and Sky
by David AllenNew prices for Sky+ and Sky HD
by Alan Harten
February 28, 2008
Throughout March and April, Sky is planning to add Sky Sports HD 3, Sky Movies Premiere HD and FX HD. The channels will air between 7pm and 2am.
FX HD will be a bespoke channel rather than an FX simulcast. Sky estimates that 90% of its output will be in high definition. It has been working with FX ...
Three more HD channels from Sky
by Lin Freestone
February 21, 2008
The UK version of the Black Entertainment Television will be launched on the Sky next week; the channel is one of the leading channels of its kind in the states and will be the first of its kind to appear in the UK.
At the moment the content will predominantly be from the US with programmes such as student reality show College Hill, crime documentary ...
BET launches on Sky
by David AllenOfcom renames channels
by David Allen
February 20, 2008
The very public battle between Virgin Media and BSkyB has created a very aggressive market for the TV, Broadband and Telephone sector.
In fact Sky’s advertising spend has increased by a massive thirty per cent to an estimated £160 million for the year 2007.
Most of the money around £115 million, went on traditional advertising such as TV, Press, Radio, Cinema and Outdoor ...
Sky counts the cost of advertising
by David Allen
February 18, 2008
Ever since Sky Sports dropped British Basketball from the small screen the sport has struggled to fine a home, and yet all of the time the leagues have been carrying on as normal which has cumulated in the BBL Trophy Final which is next month.
Fortunately the league has been in talks over the past few months with up and coming sports channel Setanta and ...
Basketball back on TV
by David Allen
