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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting) is a company that operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. It also produces TV content, and TV channels. It is controlled by 35% shareholder News Corporation, an American company chaired by Rupert Murdoch. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was a company set up in 1986 to provide direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom. ...
Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...
News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ...
Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931), Australian-born American media proprietor, is the major shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ...
History
Evolution of UK satellite television This section should include corporate history not a rehash of Sky Digital. Download high resolution version (918x663, 74 KB)Original Powerpoint presentation by Mark. ...
Download high resolution version (918x663, 74 KB)Original Powerpoint presentation by Mark. ...
Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...
Improving technology The Astra satellite network began with the launch of the analogue Astra 1A in 1989. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward BSkyB was able to begin expanding its services (the Astra satellites were all orbitally co-located so that they could be received using the same dish). 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The launch of the first Astra 2 series satellite at a new orbital position, 28.2° east, in 1997 (followed by more Astra satellites as well as Eutelsat's Eurobird at 28.5°E), enabled the company to launch a new all-digital service, Sky Digital, with the potential to carry hundreds of television and radio channels. The Astra 2 fleet at 28.2° east maintains a geostationary orbit 35,600km from earth and was built by Hughes, now Boeing Satellite Systems. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Eutelsat (European Telecommunications Satellite Organization) is a French corporation founded in 1979. ...
Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...
Hughes developed the AIM-120 AMRAAM, one of the worlds most advanced air-to-air missiles Hughes Aircraft Company was a major defence/aerospace company founded by Howard Hughes. ...
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) is a leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities in Everett, Washington, near Seattle, Washington. ...
Terrestrial competition BSkyB has faced competition from terrestrial such as the ONdigital digital terrestrial television service (later renamed ITV Digital). BSkyB defeated its rivals partly thanks to aggressive marketing and partly because of its rivals' numerous technical and administrative failures. One of these problems was that its method of encryption was easily breakable. However, Sky was more receptive to ITV Digital's FTA replacement, Freeview, in which it holds an equal stake with the BBC and Crown Castle International. Three BSkyB channels are available on this platform: Sky News, Sky Travel, and Sky Sports News. ITV Digital used to be the sole British terrestrial digital television broadcaster. ...
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels (SDTV) and/or better quality of picture (EDTV, HDTV) and sound (AC3, Dolby Digital) through a conventional aerial instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ...
ITV Digital used to be the sole British terrestrial digital television broadcaster. ...
Failure to appear is the legal term for the failure of a defendant or respondent to appear within the stated time before a tribunal as directed in a summons. ...
Freeview is a free-to-air digital television service in the United Kingdom broadcast from terrestrial transmitters using the DVB-T standard. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ...
Crown Castle International Corp. ...
Sky News is Europes first 24-hour television news channel, originally launched as part of the 4-channel Sky Television satellite package in February 1989. ...
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Sky Sports News is a 24-hour sports news channel in the United Kingdom. ...
Management Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, originally the sole owner of BSkyB, currently has a 38% stake in the company. It also fully owns the similarly-named Sky Italia and about 78% of New Zealand's SKY Network Television Limited. Murdoch's son, James, became CEO of BSkyB in 2003. This announcement caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders. News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ...
Sky Italia is an Italian television network owned by News Corporation. ...
SKY Network Television Limited, often trading as SKY, is an Auckland, New Zealand-based pay television operator. ...
James Murdoch (born 1972) is the CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. ...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...
Nepotism means favoring relatives because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities. ...
Sky utilizes the VideoGuard pay-TV scrambling system owned by News Digital Systems, a News Corporation subsidiary. There are tight controls over use of VideoGuard decoders; they are not available as stand-alone DVB CAMs (Conditional Access Modules). BSkyB has design authority over all digital satellite receivers capable of receiving their service. The receivers, though designed and built by different manufacturers, must conform to the same user interface look-and-feel as all the others. This extends to the PVR offering (branded Sky+ ). Although the manufacturers have to follow BSkyB's design criteria, this leads to many innovative features such as instant Pay-Per-View (due to the ability to record encrypted streams and decrypt on play). Many people think that giving the broadcaster such total control over the viewing experience (and viewing prices) may keep other PVR features from appearing on BSkyB's receivers due to the monopoly position over the decoding CAMs. BSkyB initially charged additional subscription fees for using a Sky+ PVR with their service; however, early in 2004, this additional £10 charge was quashed (albeit only to subscribers whose package includes two or more premium channels) to encourage existing owners to upgrade seamlessly. The Economist has suggested that News Corporation would eventually like to merge BSkyB with its US satellite operation, DirecTV and possibly its Star network to form a global satellite TV company. VideoGuard is a conditional access television system produced by NDS. It is used almost exclusively on digital satellite television systems operated by News Corporation, who own a majority of NDS. It is also used on Viasat. ...
News Digital Systems is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. ...
DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC...
A Conditional Access Module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which gives a DVB television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware the facility to decrypt scrambled programmes. ...
The personal video recorder (PVR), also called digital video recorder (DVR), is a consumer electronics device that records television shows to a hard disk in digital format. ...
Front cover of UK edition, May 7, 2005 The Economist is a market liberal weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Limited in London. ...
DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that broadcasts digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States. ...
Star TV (Satellite Television for Asian Region) is an Asian TV service owned by the News Corporation. ...
Joint ventures Sky News Australia is a 24-hour television news channel in Australia. ...
Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, or PBL, is one of Australias major media companies. ...
The Seven Network is an Australian television network available in most Australian capital cities. ...
Sky and cable television The other two major pay-TV operators in the United Kingdom are the cable operators NTL and Telewest. Unlike Sky, NTL does not produce a large amount of content of its own, although Telewest owns the Flextech production company. They broadcast the main Sky channels, and this is one of their principal selling points. Thus they are not only Sky's rivals, but also its two most important customers. They compete with Sky on price, and are able to diferentiate themselves from Sky through their ability to offer bundles of services such as internet access and telephone service. Sky is allowed to restrict certain channels such as Sky Sports Xtra to its direct customers, who are also able to use certain interactive features of its programming which are not available to cable viewers. Competition between Sky and the two cable companies is regulated by Ofcom. NTL (NASDAQ: NTLI) is a US listed company providing cable services. ...
Telewest Broadband (formerly Telewest) is one of the two major cable companies in the United Kingdom. ...
Flextech is a British television company. ...
The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...
See also SES-Astra (Société Européenne des Satellites-Astra) is a Luxembourg-based corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ...
Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...
Sky One is British Sky Broadcastings flagship entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ...
External links - Sky TV homepage (http://www.sky.com/)
- English Language TV Channels Throughout Europe (http://www.englishsattv.com/)
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