Telenor Group - partner of Eurovision Song Contest

2009-09-14: The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced the Telenor Group as Presenting Partner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. The three shows, Semi-Finals on 25 and 27 May and the Final on 29 May 2010, will be televised live, hosted by the Norwegian national public broadcaster NRK.

Infinity TV on Astra 2B - 28,2E satellite

2009-09-14: Uniquely positioned to enable the rapid expansion of television broadcast services across Africa, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A., announced Pathfinder Communications has signed a multi-transponder, multi-year deal to deliver its new Infinity TV package over the ASTRA 2B satellite to homes throughout Nigeria.

Viaccess announces CI Plus support with Neotion

2009-09-14: Viaccess, a France Telecom company, leader in conditional access and Neotion, the leading provider of highly-sophisticated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) MPEG-4 processors today announced the support for Common Interface+ (CI Plus) on Conditional Access Modules (CAMs). A demonstration of Viaccess CI Plus commitment with Neotion will be displayed during the IBC 09 Forum (Sept 11- Sept 15, Booth 1.A51).

Al Jazeera TV Selects Irdeto

2009-09-14: Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services, today announced an expanded relationship with Al Jazeera Sport, part of the Al Jazeera Network and a leading provider of sports TV services in the Middle East and North Africa. Irdeto will now protect Al Jazeera Sport’s premium content across its entire digital TV network and as part of the agreement, will source more than 500,000 Irdeto Smart Cards.

NHK Global Media Services Launches its HD Platform

2009-09-14: Intelsat announced that G-Media, a subsidiary of NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, signed a multi-transponder, multi-year renewal and expansion contract with Intelsat. NHK will use G-Media\'s backbone capacity on three Intelsat satellites, program turnaround services at three Intelsat teleports and Intelsat\'s video fiber network to transmit the first global High-Definition (HD) news channel, NHK World TV.

Eutelsat - the operator of the year

2009-09-14: Eutelsat Communications has been awarded the prize for Fixed Satellite Services Operator of the Year for the second consecutive year by Euroconsult, a leading analyst and research company in satellite applications and digital broadcasting. Bestowed by a jury of experts from Euroconsult, Space News and Satellite Finance, using rigorous quantitative and qualitative standards, the prize was awarded at this week’s annual World Satellite Business Week event in Paris.

NKE-1 is literally a module on a chip

2009-09-14: NKE-1 single chip truly is the most optimized ever combination of security, advanced CI Plus capabilities, and performances at a price point that is set to meet Operators’ and Consumer Electronics momentum in these challenging Digital Switchover times.

Progress in the Formation of the DVB-T2 Patent Pool

2009-09-14: On the occasion of IBC2009 and ETSI approving the specification for the DVB-T2 Standard (ETSI EN 302 755), the most advanced technology for broadcasting digital TV on terrestrial networks, SISVEL announces that it has been coordinating meetings among owners of patent rights that have been evaluated as essential to the DVB-T2 standard by independent experts.

CCTV chooses GlobeCast for launch of 4 channels to Europe

2009-09-11: GlobeCast has launched four additional channels for Chinese broadcaster CCTV on its platform on EuroBird 9A satellite for pan-European coverage. CCTV-4, CCTV Espańol (Spanish), CCTV Russian and CCTV Arabia now have access to a potential audience of 300 million households. GlobeCast has a long and successful relationship with CCTV.

TRT a major shareholder in euronews

2009-09-10: Euronews S.A. (euronews) and the Turkish Radio-Television Corporation (TRT) have announced that TRT has become a shareholder in euronews with a stake of 15.70%.
TRT becomes the fourth main shareholder of euronews after France Télévisions (25.37%), RAI (22.84%) and RTR (16.94%). The agreement came into effect on 6th of August 2009.