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- Dish Gains Subscribers, Sets Special Dividend
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, beat Wall Street forecasts by posting a gain of 241,000 subscribers in the third quarter and surprised investors with a plan to pay shareholders a special dividend of $2 a share.Analysts at Bernstein Research had forecast...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Telecom Roundup: Telecom Diversity, Nortel Cuts, Dish Dips, Smartphone Reliability
- Obama's team to find new FCC chair headed by proponent of diversity in media participation; Nortel cuts jobs and its outlook for the rest of the year after losing $3.4 billion last quarter; Dish misses analyst expectations by nearly 40 cents a share; and a study raises arguments over whether...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- BSkyB and UKTV close on-demand deal
- BSkyB is offering UKTV channels through its Sky Player, bringing the company’s channels to online TV for the first time. The deal will make archive programming and current output from channels such as Gold and Eden available to Sky’s digital...
- Articles 2009-03-05
- Dish founder buys USD8m in company shares
- Dish Network co-founder, James DeFranco, has bought 800,000 company shares, valued at USD8.06m, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. News of the sale comes days after the satellite TV and DVR firm's share price hit a year low of USD8.34 per share. ...
- Articles 2008-11-24
- Star joins Jupiter in Indian TV venture
- News Corp's Asian unit Star is expanding its presence in the fast-growing Indian TV market by forming a joint venture with regional broadcaster, Jupiter Entertainment. The venture, called Star Jupiter, will include Jupiter's majority stakes in six south Indian regional...
- Articles 2008-11-17
- Satellite Television Industry Loses Millions In Profits To Fraud
- The satellite industry is expected to generate 171 billion dollars by 2007, with a large portion of this revenue being generated by satellite television service, such as Direct TV and Dish Network. As in any multi-billion dollar industry, there are those that illegally profit through the big business of fraud...
- White papers 2006-05-30
- 6 Ways To Build Trust And Ramp Up Your Marketing
- Nowadays, amid mounting marketing clutter and ads beamed everywhere, from satellite TV and radio to elevator and doctors' offices, it's important to gain profile as a company that customers remember and can rely on. You ought to focus on how you can demonstrate to customers that, no matter what goes...
- White papers
- Digital Entertainment
- The last twenty years have seen an explosion of breakthroughs in personal technology. Digital cameras, satellite television, CDs, and the Internet have changed the face of entertainment. One of the most important aspects of digital technology is the way that it affects the distribution of information, or content. Information that...
- White papers 2003-04-02
- Big Bets for the U.S. Cable Industry: Key Opportunities for Future Revenue Growth
- After two decades of robust growth, the U.S. cable TV industry is facing significant challenges to future growth. With more than 300 existing programming channels resulting in increased audience fragmentation, the prospects for creating additional revenues by launching new channels are very limited. At the same time, the pool of...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- EchoStar's Ergen Hands Off CEO Post; Will Stay On As Chairman
- Charlie Ergen (pictured, left) is handing off his duties as president and CEO of satellite TV company EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) to returning exec Michael Dugan. Ergen will stay on as chairman, a post he also holds at Dish Network, which spun off EchoStar in January 2008. Dugan serves on...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Chinese Broadcaster's New Media Arm Gets A $25 Million Investment
- Phoenix New Media, the four-year-old new media unit of Hong Kong TV broadcaster Phoenix Satellite Television is getting an influx of funds from three investment firms. Morningside Ventures, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, and Bertelsmann Asia Investment Funds are backing the operation with $25 million; Intel Capital is providing $10...
- External links 2009-11-09
- Phoenix New Media raises USD25m
- The media arm of Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite TV has raised USD25m from Intel Capital, Bertelsmann Asia Investment Funds and Morningside Ventures. Founded in 2005, Phoenix New Media belongs to one of the few independent broadcasters in China. by Editorial
- Articles 2009-11-08
- Satellite TV CEO Changes for Tough Times
- A newly named DirecTV CEO and departure of EchoStar's CEO are the results of industry turmoil requiring insight beyond stale industry we-used-to-do-it-this-way answers. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
Additional Resources
- AT&T is opposing DIRECTV's efforts to block carriage of a satellite TV service on an AT&T satellite.(Brief Article)
- AT&T is opposing DIRECTV's efforts to block carriage of a satellite TV service on an AT&T satellite. In a filing last month, DIRECTV asked the FCC not to allow carriage of the planned AlphaStar satellite TV service on the AT&T Telstar 402 AT&T is opposing DIRECTV's...
- Research articles 1995-06-26
- Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) last week said he has a plan for providing local TV signals to rural satellite TV subscribers, a problem that concerns many of the Congress members from rural districts.
- The House and Senate are reconciling legislation that would allow satellite TV providers to offer local TV signals in local markets, which the law currently forbids. Because satellite TV carriers have limited capacity, DirecTV and EchoStar are unli The House and Senate are reconciling...
- Research articles 1999-09-27
- PHOENIX SATELLITE TV TO SPIN OFF IFENG.COM
- AsiaInfo Services 03-28-2008 Phoenix Satellite TV to Spin Off Ifeng.com HONG KONG, Mar 28, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd. (Phoenix TV and SEHK: 8002) will spin off its Internet platform Ifeng.com and list i AsiaInfo Services 03-28-2008...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Strategy Analytics: Satellite TV Gains Not Always Cable Losses; Satellite Grows U.S. Multichannel TV Market as Millions Add Service.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 April 2005-Strategy Analytics, Inc: Strategy Analytics: Satellite TV Gains Not Always Cable Losses; Satellite Grows U.S. Multichannel TV Market as Millions Add ServiceC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07042005 Boston, MA - Although U.S. satellite TV providers signed up over ...
- Research articles 2005-04-08
- Satellite wars. (news briefs on joint venture between satellite TV companies ASkyB and EchoStar and other stories in the news)(Brief Article)
- Shares in cable companies fell on news from the digital-satellite front. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, due to launch its ASkyB 200-channel satellite TV service in America, announced a $1 billion joint venture with EchoStar, a fast-growing satellite broadShares in cable companies fell on news from the digital-satellite...
- Research articles 1997-03-01
- PHOENIX SATELLITE TV PLANS TO BE LISTED ON SEHK MAIN BOARD
- AsiaInfo Services 06-13-2007 Phoenix Satellite TV Plans to Be Listed on SEHK Main Board HONG KONG, Jun 13, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Limited, a leading satellite multi-channel operator in the Asia-Pacif AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- Strategy Analytics: Satellite TV Gains Not Always Cable Losses; Satellite Grows U.S. Multichannel TV Market as Millions Add Service
- BOSTON -- Although U.S. satellite TV providers signed up over three million customers last year, the impact on most cable operators was relatively small, says a new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics. The report, "US Multichannel TV Update: Satellite Gains, But Does Cable Lose?" notes that while Direct...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
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