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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. ...
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Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5 billion. ...
History
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Hughes Electronics was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to GM for $ 5.2 billion. General Motors merged Hughes Aircraft with its Delco Electronics unit to form Hughes Electronics. The group then consisted of: Delco Electronics Corporation, Hughes Aircraft Company, Hughes Space & Communications Company, Hughes Network Systems, and DirecTV. Hughes logo adopted after his death Hughes developed the AIM-120 AMRAAM, one of the worlds most advanced air-to-air missiles Hughes Aircraft Company was a major defense/aerospace company founded by Howard Hughes. ...
In 1994, Hughes Electronics founded DirecTV. In 1997, GM transferred Delco Electronics to its Delphi Automotive Systems business. Late in the year the defense operations of Hughes Electronics (Hughes Aircraft) were merged with Raytheon. The remaining companies remained under the Hughes Electronics name and within GM. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States and Latin America except for Mexico. ...
Delphi logo from 2005 Delphi OTCBB: DPHIQ is an automotive parts company headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA. It was spun-off from General Motors on May 28, 1999. ...
In 1996, Hughes Electronics and PanAmSat agreed to merge their fixed satellite services into a new publicly held company, also called PanAmSat with Hughes Electronics as majority shareholder. The corporation sold its commercial satellite manufacturing business to Boeing in 2000, now renamed Boeing Satellite Development Center. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Founded in 1984 by Rene Anselmo, PanAmSat Corporation (NYSE: PA) was a satellite service provider headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut. ...
An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ...
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ...
The Boeing 601, the best-selling large spacecraft model in the world. ...
GM's interests in the remainder of the company, DirecTV, DirecTV Latin America, PanAmSat and Hughes Network Systems were sold to News Corporation in December 2003. This group was renamed the DirecTV Group. News Corp. actually owns only 39% of DirecTV, however it is the largest single shareholder, and several DirecTV executives have strong links to News Corp. News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...
PanAmSat was sold to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in August 2004. SkyTerra Communications, Inc. completed its purchase of 100% controlling interest in Hughes Network Systems from the DirecTV Group in January 2006. Founded in 1984 by Rene Anselmo, PanAmSat Corporation (NYSE: PA) was a satellite service provider headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut. ...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late stage leveraged buyouts. ...
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS), is a provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers. ...
News Corp. has reportedly agreed to transfer its interest in DirecTV Group to John Malone's Liberty Media; in return it will buy back Liberty's shares in News Corp., giving the Murdoch family tighter control of the latter firm. John C. Malone is the current chairman of Liberty Media. ...
The Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate. ...
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Corporate divisions A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States and Latin America except for Mexico. ...
SKY Latin America was the first satellite pay-TV provider in Mexico. ...
External links | Corporate directors: Chairman and Managing Director Rupert Murdoch | Others: Peter Barnes | Chase Carey | Peter Chernin | Kenneth Cowley | David DeVoe | Viet Dinh | Rod Eddington | Andrew Knight | Lachlan Murdoch | Thomas Perkins | Stanley Shuman | Arthur Siskind | John L. Thornton News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...
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In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ...
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Chase Carey has served as a Director and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of DirecTV since December 22, 2003. ...
Peter Chernin (born May 29, 1951 in Harrison, New York) is President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of the Fox Group. ...
David DeVoe is the CFO of News Corporation. ...
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Sir Rod Eddington is an Australian businessman perhaps best known as CEO of British Airways from 2000 to 2005. ...
Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1st November 1939 in England) is a journalist, editor, and media magnate. ...
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. ...
Thomas James Perkins (Born 1932), American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. ...
Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) has been a executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. ...
John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. ...
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Fox News Talk is a channel on XM Satellite Radios US platform that showcases talk shows and news reports from Fox News Channel personalities and syndicated show hosts such as Tony Snow and Alan Colmes. ...
Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ...
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MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...
The National Rugby League (often referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is a competition for rugby league clubs in Australia and New Zealand, and is Australias primary rugby league competition. ...
NDS Group plc is a DRM and conditional access firm. ...
TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ...
News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...
The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...
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The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ...
thelondonpaper is the trading name of a free newspaper, published by News International (who also publish The Sun and The Times). ...
News Limited was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch until the formation of News Corporation in 1979. ...
Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...
20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of film studio 20th Century Fox. ...
20th Century Fox Television is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ...
Blue Sky Studios is an Academy Award winning computer animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. ...
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Fox Faith (also spelled FoxFaith) is a brand of film studio Twentieth Century Fox targeting evangelical Christians. ...
Fox Television Studios is the sister television arm of 20th Century Fox Television. ...
Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia. ...
For the animal, see Fox. ...
The Fox Television Stations Group (FTSG) is a group of television stations located throughout the United States which are owned and operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...
MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation, which began operations on September 5, 2006 in television. ...
The Fox Movie Channel, formerly fxM, is a cable television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. ...
The Fox News Channel (FNC) is a United States-based cable and satellite news channel. ...
Fox Reality is a reality TV network on U.S. cable and satellite. ...
Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. ...
Fox Sports en Español is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...
Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ...
Foxnet is a cable network that is available to markets in the United States without an affiliate of the Fox network. ...
FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ...
FX is a British TV channel owned by Fox, launched in 2004 and originally branded as FX289 in reference to its Sky Digital EPG number. ...
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Flag of the National Geographic Society The National Geographic Society, is a not-for-profit scientific organization based in the United States. ...
The National Geographic Channel is a British television channel that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. ...
Flag of the National Geographic Society The National Geographic Society, is a not-for-profit scientific organization based in the United States. ...
SPEED Channel, based in Charlotte, NC, was launched on New Years Day 1996, by Roger Werner, as SpeedVision. ...
SportSouth is a southern sportsbroadcasting network, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
The TV Guide Channel is a television channel that provides, on the bottom half of the screen, a scrolling grid that lists television channels and the television programs and films currently showing on them. ...
The Fox Business Channel is a future United States-based cable and satellite business news channel. ...
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB â formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. ...
Channel logo bTV is the first private-owned national television channel in Bulgaria. ...
Fox Sports en Latinoamérica is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...
Fox Televizija is a Serbian commercial television network that was launched on November 30, 2006 and is full owned by the Fox Corporation. ...
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
XYZnetworks owns, operates and distributes eleven of the leading subscription television channels in Australia. ...
An Austar Remote Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. ...
Imedi Media Holding refers to a private TV and Radio Company in Georgia. ...
Sky Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. ...
SKY Network Television Limited (ASX: SKT; NZX: SKT), often trading as SKY, was New Zealands first pay television service and is at present, 2006, New Zealands largest pay television operator. ...
This article is about the Asian satellite service STAR TV. For other uses, see Star TV. STAR (Satellite Television for the Asian Region) is an Asian TV service owned by News Corporation. ...
The Fox Television Stations Group (FTSG) is a group of television stations located throughout the United States which are owned and operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...
KDFW (FOX4 - The News Station) is the FOX owned and operated television station in the Dallas, Texas/Fort Worth, Texas DMA. Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill. ...
KDVR is a television station on UHF Channel 31 (573. ...
KMSP-TV (FOX9) is a broadcast television station serving the Twin Cities market of Minnesota and western Wisconsin in the United States, broadcasting on channel 9 (26 digital). ...
KRIV, FOX26 is the Fox owned-and-operated affiliate in Houston, Texas, USA. It is co-owned with UPN affiliate KTXH. Both stations share the same studio complex on 4261 Southwest Freeway in Houston. ...
KSAZ-TV is the owned-and-operated FOX station in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
KSTU (FOX13) is the Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Salt Lake City, Utah television market. ...
KTBC (FOX 7) is the FOX owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. ...
KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Los Angeles, California. ...
KTVI is the Fox owned and operated station in St. ...
WAGA-TV (Channel 5) is a television station in the city of Atlanta. ...
WBRC TV, channel 6, FOX6 is the Fox O&O Station in the Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa, Alabama television market. ...
WDAF TV Channel 4 is The Fox Owned & Operated Television station for The Kansas City Market. ...
WFLD-TV is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
WFXT, channel 25, is an owned-and-operated station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
WGHP (FOX8) is the FOX television station which serves the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, North Carolina DMA. It is licensed to High Point and owned and operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...
WHBQ-TV FOX13 is the Fox owned and operated station in Memphis, Tennessee. ...
WITI FOX6 Milwaukee is a Fox network owned-and-operated television station (O&O) located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ...
WJBK (FOX2) is the Fox-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. ...
WJW, also known on-air as FOX8, is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, broadcasting on VHF channel 8. ...
WNYW is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ...
WOFL, FOX35, is the FOX television station serving the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. ...
WOGX is the FOX owned and operated television station serving the Gainesville, Florida television market, but also serves the neighboring portions of the Orlando and Jacksonville markets. ...
WTTG, FOX5 DC is an owned and operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...
WTVT is a television station in Tampa, Florida. ...
WTXF-TV, channel 29, is an owned-and-operated station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation, which began operations on September 5, 2006 in television. ...
KCOP-TV, referred to as my 13 L.A. or My Network TV Channel 13, is a My Network TV owned and operated television station in Los Angeles. ...
KDFI, My 27, is a MyNetworkTV owned and operated station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. ...
KTXH, channel 20, is currently the MyNetworkTV owned and operated station in Houston, Texas. ...
KUTP is a My Network TV owned and operated station in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
WDCA, channel 20 (digital channel 35), is the Washington, D.C. areas MyNetworkTV owned and operated station, with transmitter facilities located in Bethesda, Maryland. ...
WFTC, channel 29, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis-St. ...
WPWR-TV, channel 50, is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana and serving the Chicago, Illinois area. ...
WRBW is a My Network TV owned and operated station serving the Orlando/Daytona Beach/Melbourne, Florida television market. ...
WUTB is the UPN affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland, broadcasting on channel 24 (digital channel 41). ...
WWOR-TV, channel 9, is a television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area. ...
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