Satellite TV News

The Spanish Beisbol Network (SBN) has reached affiliate relationship agreement with Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees and Texas Rangers and also launched a new Spanish-language baseball website “www.beisbol.net.”

This new team inclusion will allow SBN to reach the growing Hispanics in the U.S and also to bring the Spanish-language broadcasts of the games with local radio partners, the broadcasts are available on XM and MLB.com.

The new website to deliver latest news about Latino baseball players, coaches, and MLB teams and to bring exclusive articles and photos, as well as audio and video interviews with the league’s top Hispanic players.

ESPN has announced that ESPNEWS will deliver a live half-hour program focusing on 2009 Wimbledon starting from June 24 on all weekdays throughout the Wimbledon matches at 10:00 AM ET. The news program will offer highlights, live look-ins to matches and post-match press conferences, along with other sports news. ESPN2 is presenting extensive day-long coverage starting at 7:00 AM ET, and will continue until Friday, July 3.

ESPN has reached an agreement with GolTV to broadcast Spain’s La Liga in the USA. The television network dedicated fully to soccer games, 24/7 in the United States, GolTV has exclusive Spanish and English-language multimedia rights to broadcast Spain’s La Liga. ESPN and GolTV will share coverage of Spain’s La Liga football leagues.

This agreement between ESPN and GolTV will allow ESPN to carry many La Liga games. GolTV will deliver 120 live soccer games in English and Spanish and ESPN Deportes will deliver live and exclusive Spanish-language coverage of more than 95 La Liga regular-season matches.

ESPN’s live sports broadband network, ESPN360.com will stream 114 matches, including simulcast of all 95 ESPN Deportes matches live in English. ESPN Deportes and ESPN360.com also to provide coverage of Spain’s domestic cup tournament Copa del Rey.

Rodrigo Lombello, COO, GolTV said “There is so much La Liga, and so much demand, we felt that for our fans and video distribution partners, the right answer was not to launch yet another exclusive channel, but to extend our programming rights across multiple networks – and there is no better partner for this endeavor than ESPN, No other European football league can match La Liga in attracting large audiences on Spanish-language television.”

Lino Garcia, general manager, ESPN Deportes said “La Liga is arguably the most prestigious European soccer league in the world, we’re thrilled to work with GolTV to showcase La Liga on ESPN for the first time to soccer fans in the U.S. With the pending addition of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, the timing is great to include this great property to the ESPN Deportes line-up, as it is the most exciting soccer league in the world today. “

DIRECTV Mas and Maridalia have joined together to launch popular jingle, “Somos.” DIRECTV Mas has set a goal of being a part of the fabric of all U.S. Hispanic households by transporting its viewers to their homelands through the most extensive programming lineup from Latin America.

John de Armas, vice president for WorldDirect said “We are looking forward to tonight and Maridalia’s live debut of ‘Somos.’ It is such a
meaningful and inspirational song; one that touches at the very heart of all who arrive and live here, searching for their piece of the American dream, Judging by the reaction from our media partners and dealers all across the country, the campaign has truly touched a chord with Hispanics everywhere.”

Bright House Networks has added ten new channels including eight high-definition channels in Tampa Bay area. Bright House has launched following new HD channels to Tampa Bay subscribers:

AMC HD – Ch.749

Bio HD – Ch.750

CNBC HD – Ch.748

Fox News Channel HD – Ch.747

MAVTV HD – Ch.712

Smithsonian Channel HD – Ch.711

Speed HD – Channel 745 and

WGN America HD – Ch.746

Bright House has included Smithsonian Channel HD and MAVTV HD in its HD programming pack.

Military History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network have been added in Bright House’s Digital programming package line-up.

Majesco Entertainment Company, a provider of video games for the mass market in The USA has announced that the company’s slate of titles will be shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, CA from June 2-4. The lineup will feature a range of highly-anticipated Wii and Nintendo DS titles, including the return of a boy and his blob, the first look at the just announced Flip’s Twisted World, the sequel to the best-selling Jillian Michaels’ fitness game, and the company’s My Hero brand of aspirational titles.

Following are E3 2009 Video Game Line Up:

A boy and his blob

Our House: Party and

My Hero Firefighter

Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Majesco said “Majesco has a lot of exciting games in development and the titles we’re showing at E3 just scratch the surface of what’s to come in holiday 2009 and beyond, from best-selling sequels to classic NES nostalgia and new brands like Go Play and My Hero, our E3 showcase reveals our commitment to providing high quality entertainment for the entire family.”

Dish Network has added FUEL TV in its programming line up on May 21. Dish Network has launched Fuel TV on Channel 155. This channel is dedicated to covering the lifestyle and culture of action sports, including skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, BMX, freestyle motocross and wakeboarding.

FUEL TV is available to Dish Network’s Classic Gold 250 programming package subscribers and the network delivers breaking news through its original and commissioned series and specials, short-form content, films, and prestigious event coverage.

Dave Shull, senior vice president of Programming for DISH Network said “FUEL TV strengthens the wide variety of programming DISH Network already offers, we’re providing even more value for our subscribers by expanding our lineup with great original content.”

DirecTV has announced that it’s Spanish and English-language programming pack DIRECTV Mas will be launching Latino programming package Optimo Mas on Sunday, May 17, 2009 from 5-8 p.m. at The Conga Room at Los Angeles. Optimo Mas package will be launched on May 17 with Carlos Mencia performing entertainment programming, hosted by Tony Plana and attended by many leading celebrities.

The proceeds of the event will be offered to ECT’s innovative literacy programs and adapted Shakespeare productions to underserved youth throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

Optimo Mas programming package will deliver more than 50 Spanish-language channels, over 100 English-language channels, and 15 HD channels.

John De Armas, vice president of WorldDirect and the head of DIRECTV Mas said “Our Optimo Mas bilingual programming package is about bringing the best programming from the Spanish and English language world to our customers, this is in perfect alignment with what Tony has created with ECT, so supporting his efforts to touch the lives of our bicultural youth made all the sense in the world to us at DIRECTV Mas.”

Verizon has launched six new high-definition channels to its Verizon’s FiOS TV line-up. Verizon is joining with Entertainment Studios to launch six HD channels. Entertainment Studios is the largest independent producer and distributor of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. The new HD channels to be added are:

Cars.TV

Pets.TV and

Recipe.TV

Terry Denson, vice president – FiOS TV content and programming said “The addition of these channels helps us to continue our commitment to offer FiOS TV customers the best in HD programming, with razor-sharp picture-and-sound quality that only FiOS delivers, coupled with the delivery of six new channels only available to FiOS customers, we’re offering service and variety that cable can’t match.”

Spike TV has started producing ten one-hour episodes of original series, “Surviving Disaster.” This series shot in Los Angeles is to focus on surviving a swine flu and other dangerous Pandemics.

Spike TV’s series is different from other TV programming as it will describe the best way to survive an earthquake, shark attack, plane crash, bioterrorism, hijack, mall siege, or hostage crisis.