CBS Broadcasting to Call Loral Skynet's Telstar Satellite Fleet 'Home'.BEDMINSTER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1999-- Another leading broadcaster joins Loral Skynet's broadcast and syndication neighborhood over North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Loral Skynet Loral Skynet is a full-service global satellite operator headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey. The company provides a wide range of video and data transmission services. It became a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications when Loral acquired it in 1997 from AT&T. today announced that CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Broadcasting, the television programming arm of CBS Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CBS), has signed an agreement and is now distributing its entire North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. program distribution services on Loral Skynet's Telstar satellite fleet. "Loral Skynet's industry-renowned broadcast and syndication neighborhood on Telstar 4, 5 and 6 now welcomes CBS to its family," said Terry Hart, president, Loral Skynet. "Adding CBS to the Telstar broadcast neighborhood, already anchored by ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and FOX, firmly establishes Loral Skynet as the leading provider of satellite broadcast services for North America." CBS will use a total of seven C-band transponders on Telstar 6 and three C-band transponders on Telstar 4 to distribute its network programming feeds, including the entire CBS Sports CBS Sports is a division of CBS which airs many of the sports telecasts in the United States. CBS Sports broadcasts programs like NFL on CBS, The NFL Today, Southeastern Conference football, NCAA basketball, PGA golf, and professional tennis. (tm) NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga schedule, to its more than 200 affiliates across North America. CBS will also use two Ku-band transponders on Loral Skynet's Telstar 6 satellite for its Newspath(tm) satellite news gathering service. CBS Newspath provides CBS affiliates, CBS News broadcasters and CBS News overseas partners with live and breaking news feeds from fixed and mobile locations throughout North America. "We are extremely pleased that CBS has entrusted Loral Skynet with its network programming distribution on our Telstar satellite fleet. Loral Skynet continues to be committed to providing all of our broadcasting customers with the highest degree of customer service and technical expertise in the satellite industry," said Mr. Hart. Loral Skynet's Telstar 6 satellite, manufactured by Space Systems/Loral and placed in service at 93 degrees W.L. in March 1999, carries a total of 52 transponders -- 24 at C-band and 28 at Ku-band. Telstar 4, placed in-service November 1995 at 89 degrees W.L., is equipped with 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders. Both satellites provide coverage of the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. , Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands. Loral Skynet's 1999 launch schedule includes the launches of Telstar 7 and Orion 2. Telstar 7, scheduled for a third quarter launch, will host a strong North American cable neighborhood at its 129(degree) W.L. orbital location. Orion 2, scheduled for launch in late -1999 to 12(degree) W.L., will expand Loral Skynet's coverage into Latin America, Russia and the Middle East. Loral Skynet of Bedminster, N.J., a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, is a leading satellite communications services provider that operates the Telstar and Orion satellite fleets. Loral Skynet's Telstar satellites provide C-band and Ku-band coverage over the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and trans-Atlantic coverage through the Orion 1 satellite. Customers lease transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. capacity to distribute network television programming, to collect live video feeds for the reporting of news and events, and to offer direct-to-home and pay-per-view programming, distance learning, educational, and other business television services. Loral Skynet also provides technical consulting, as well as tracking, telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. , and control of satellite fleets for a wide variety of customers. For more information, visit Loral Skynet's web site at http://www.loralskynet.com. Loral Skynet leads the Loral Global Alliance, which offers its customers the advantages of a worldwide network of satellite capacity currently on the North American Telstar fleet, the trans-Atlantic Orion 1 satellite, on the three-satellite Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (SatMex) fleet, as well as on future Europe*Star satellites. Each Alliance member provides global satellite solutions, while focusing on the local and inter-regional needs within its coverage regions. Loral Space & Communications is a high technology company that primarily concentrates on satellite manufacturing and satellite-based services, including broadcast transponder leasing and value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services, domestic and international corporate data networks, global wireless telephony, broadband data transmission and content services, Internet services and international direct-to-home satellite services. For more information, visit Loral's web site at http://www.loral.com. |
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