Eutelsat’s quarterly and 9-month financials show that its revenue growth remains firmly upward, although there are signs that its important ‘multi-usage’ segment is slowing in growth terms. Overall revenues are up 4.6 per cent for the quarter-year (to March 31st) and a matching 4.6 per cent for the 9 months to the same date. Video-based […]

Communications and information technology company Harris Corporation is to divest its Broadcast Communications business. Confirmation of the decision came as the company announced its third quarter results. William M Brown, president and chief executive officer, said the decision to divest Broadcast Communications resulted from a thorough review of the company’s business portfolio, which determined that […]

Belgium-based Newtec is to upgrade the Middle East and North African programming and exchange service (MENOS) to HDTV in order to make this year’s London Olympic Games the ‘first’ HDTV major sports event to be carried by the MENOS infrastructure. The news, announced at NAB  in Las Vegas, allows ASBU members to receive the live […]

Mindspeed Technologies, a supplier of semiconductor solutions for broadcast and network infrastructure applications, has extended its line of high-performance, asynchronous fully non-blocking crosspoint switches to include a 12.8 gigabits per second (Gbps), 160×160 device with two terabits per second (Tbps) switching capacity. The M20605 incorporates features that simplify system design, speed time to market, and […]

VDS, a developer of broadcast automation software, content design and plug-in products, has announced Streamliner, a new system for controlling streaming media in sync with linear broadcasts. VDS will present Streamliner for the first time at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in booth N3734. Powered by VDS Promotor, Streamliner solves one of the biggest […]

Elon Musk, the wealthy owner of rocket launch company SpaceX, is considering building a new satellite launch site in southern Texas, south of Corpus Christi, and almost on the Mexican Border. The plans call for a launch site to be built near Brownsville in Cameron County (and specifically south of Port Isabel). Musk’s company has […]

Miranda Technologies, a worldwide provider of infrastructure, playout and monitoring systems for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industry successfully added a new channel to a leading broadcaster’s service only three days after the station placed an order. Satellite Telecommunications Network (STN), the leading satellite service in Slovenia, already had nine channels on air […]

ScheduALL is a global provider of Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software for the media, broadcast, and transmission industries. The annual National Association of Broadcasters Show-NAB-held this year in Las Vegas April 16-19 is a perfect forum to showcase how ScheduALL is making genius possible with its innovative and extensible technologies that are bringing an often […]

Eutelsat Communications has officially launched its newsgathering service called ‘NewsSpotter’. The service expands the range of professional services provided through Eutelsat’s high-performance KA-SAT satellite and is provided by its Skylogic affiliate. Using a new generation of lightweight equipment, NewsSpotter broadens opportunities for newsgathering by offering broadcasters and service providers the ability to transmit High Definition […]

Signiant, a global player in intelligent file movement software for the media and entertainment industry, has announced the recent signing of new and expanded installations with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) and SRG SSR. “Three of the most recognisable brands in the German, Austrian and Swiss broadcasting industries have selected Signiant to facilitate […]