Satellite TV News

Dish Network and Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network (HITN TV) have announced that they jointly operate to remove the barriers facing Latino communities from transitioning to digital television by implementing new consumer-direct digital transition video conference workshops throughout New York and Puerto Rico, with viewer participation from California sites. The live teleconference workshops utilize HITN’s proprietary [...]

Dish Network and Gravitas Ventures have reached an agreement on Oct. 6. This agreement will allow Gravitas to provide Dish Network with quality feature films, documentaries, music, alternative sport, and event specials from more than 50 independent producers. Gravitas has 2,500 hours of content and offers operators with variety of On Demand entertainment content. Gravitas [...]

Ensequence and DISH Network have announced that NBC Universal (NBCU) has selected them to transform NBCU’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games into a fully interactive experience. NBCU has chosen Ensequence to provide a separate interactive application on DishHOME on DISH Network Channel-100. NBCU’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games experience wraps interactivity around live programming [...]

Cablevision Systems Corporation has announced the launch of 15 new high-definition channels to its iO TV HD line-up on Monday, July 28. Cablevision now offers 60 high-definition channels for its iO TV subscribers for no extra programming fees or equipment. Cablevision’s new addition of 15 new high-definition channels will be completed on August 1, 2008. [...]

DISH Network will be the first satellite television provider to reach 100 high-definition channels in August. DISH Network has announced on Thursday that the satcaster will launch 17 high-definition channels on August 1 to reach 100 channels. DISH Network, during January this year announced that they would offer 100 national HD channels by year’s end. [...]