yes
Type	Satellite television provider
Country	Israel
Availability	Throughout Israel
Owner	Public (49% Bezeq)
Key people	Offer Bloch (CEO)
Launch date	July, 2000
Website	http://www.yes.co.il/ (Hebrew)

D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd, founded in 1998, is the sole satellite television provider (DBS) in Israel. It began broadcasting in July 2000 under the trademark yes. The largest shareholder of the provider is the Bezeq corporation holding up to 49% of its shares. The creation of D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd. broke the cable monopoly in Israel which had lasted more than a decade and ushered in digital broadcasting technology to the country. Image File history File links Yeslogo. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Israel. ... Bezeq logo Bezeq (בזק) is Israels national telecommunications provider, and had a monopoly on wire-based telephony. ... Look up July in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to as direct-to-home signals. ... Bezeq logo Bezeq (בזק) is Israels national telecommunications provider, and had a monopoly on wire-based telephony. ...

The early years of the company were unstable due to technical and financial difficulties. Even though the three cable companies in Israel - Matav, Tevel, and Golden Channels wanted to compete with the satellite company by slashing prices, the subscriber base grew due to the unique and new services that yes offered, as well as the lack of cable coverage in many rural areas. The threat of this national company allowed the three cable companies to merge into one company under the name HOT, a union the government monopoly regulator had prevented until then. Hot is a telecommunications and cable television company in Israel founded on August 18, 2003. ...

Nowadays, D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd. provides television services to more than half a million customers using two Israeli satellites – Amos 1 and Amos 2. The company broadcasts more than 200 different television stations from around the world along with exclusive Israeli channels such as yes+ and yesSTARS. In 2004, D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd. started offering its customers the first DVR (Digital video recorder) in Israel, called yesMax (similar in function to the Tivo) and soon will provide Video on demand services as well. Amos is a name for a series of Israeli communication satellites. ... Carried by the Israeli satellite television provider yes, the yes + (yes PLUS) Channel is an Israeli television channel that broadcasts foreign (British and American)TV shows. ... Carried by the Israeli satellite television provider yes, Channel yesSTARS is an Israeli television channel that broadcasts foreign (Mostly American) TV shows. ... A digital video recorder (DVR) (or personal video recorder (PVR)) is a device that records video without videotape to a hard drive-based digital storage medium. ... TiVo (pronounced tee-voh, IPA: ) is a popular brand of digital video recorder (DVR), a term synonymous with personal video recorder (PVR). ... Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. ...

D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd. VOD service has been controversial. For the first time, Israelis will have the option to purchase pornographic content directly. Morality laws are being proposed, but so far yes has pushed forward with the new service. The new channel offering will include Playboy TV, Vivid TV, and an all gay station, which has yet to be selected. Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ... Playboy TV is a Pay-per-view cable/satellite channel available in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ... Vivid is Living Colours debut album, which was released on May 3, 1988. ...

See also

• HOT

Hot is a telecommunications and cable television company in Israel founded on August 18, 2003. ...

External links

• Official website (Hebrew)