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Latest Americas Developments / Analysis

The June 2013 issue of the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine

The June 2013 issue of the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine focusing on the Asian Satellite Market sponsored by Thuraya .  Click here to read or download the issue. Featuring:

Pay TV Boom Fueling Demand in Asia-Pacific  by Peter Galace

The Renaissance of Small Satellites by Dr. Joseph Pelton

Update on Papua New Guinea  by Chris Frith

The Satellite-Eye View of the Broadcast Booth by Robert Bell

Networking Towards a High Throughput Maritime Space by  Martin Jarrold

plus IndustryBriefs, Market Briefs, Executive Moves, Product and Services MarketPlace Guide to CommunicAsia 2013 in Singapore, Vital Statistics and Satellite Markets and Research 25TM Stock Index

Video and Audio Interviews from Satcom Africa 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa

View video interviews with key executives from the Satcom Africa 2013 exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa.   Featuring interviews with:Felix Damiba, Managing Director, Africa  Asia Broadcast Satellite; Nabil al Shanti  COO, ARABSAT; Omar Trujillo,VP-Africa and Latin America,O3b Networks; Jerome van der Putt, CCO and Fulvio Sansone, CTO, SatADSL and  Pradeep  Unni, EVP–Marketing and Sales, MEA,Thaicom.  To view the videos click here.

DirecTV Acquires LifeShield, Enters Home Security Business Acquires LifeShield

El Segundo, Calif., June 11, 2013 — DirecTV is entering the home security and automation business by acquiring Pennsylvania-based LifeShield Home Security.

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Americas Market Trends

Content Discovery Required for the More than 30 Billion Items To Be Viewed in the US this Year

Scottsdale, Ariz., June 17, 2013--Multimedia Research Group (MRG) believes that the growth of TV multi-taskers, defined as people who are using a second screen device to view or control content related to what they are watching on the big screen (TV), will be the primary users of personal program guides, and will spur continued use and development of recommendation engines. Research data confirms that there are approximately 36 million mobile device owners (14% of US 13+ adults) that use their smartphones and/or tablets in association with TV programs they are currently watching. This TV multi-tasking behavior is expected to grow to 114 million (54% of 13+ adults) users in the US by 2017.

One billion Pay TV subscribers by 2018-Digital TV Research

London, UK, June 12, 2013--Global pay TV households will reach nearly 1 billion by 2018, up from 772 million  in 2012 and 814 million in 2013. According to the Digital TV World Household  Forecasts report, the Asia Pacific region will contribute 59% (587 million) of the  global total by 2018.

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Americas Executive Views

Interviews at the NAB 2013

At the NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador interviewd key industry executives including: Brian Morris, SVP-Media and Entertainment, Globecomm Systems; Roger Franklin, President, Crystal Solutions; Arnaud Perrier, VP-Solutions Marketing, Envivio; Lisa Coelho, CEO, GlobeCast Americas; and  Thomas Wrede VP– Reception Systems, SES.  To view the videos, click here.

Back and Forth with O3b Networks CEO Steve Collar

New York City,  May 1, 2013--Lou Zacharilla goes back and forth with with Steve Collar, CEO of O3b Networks.  His venture is designed to empower large numbers of people where they live, whether “home” is a remote Pacific Basin community or one in the hills of Pakistan or Africa.  We discussed the vision of a profoundly interconnected world.

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Americas Events

Space Tech Expo Boosts Free Sessions

SSPI to Award Scholarship to Deserving Student During the Event

Long Beach, Calif., May 15, 2013-- SpaceTech Expo (www.spacetechexpo.com ) the West Coast’s premier space industry event, has increased the free seminars and sessions available to its attendees by expanding its free-to-attend Satellite & Space Summit and Open Tech Forum.  “Against the backdrop of tough travel budgets for industry and government, we want to offer unrivalled value to the spacecraft and launch industry,” says Guy Harris, Event Director for Space Tech Expo 2013. “That is why on top of our premium Space Tech Conference for C-level business people, we have expanded the free-to-attend Satellite & Space Summit, and free Open Tech Forum.”

Space Pioneers to Meet at Long Beach

Long Beach, Calif.,  May 3, 2013--SPACE TECH EXPO 2013, (www.spacetechexpo.com)  the West Coast’s major space industry gathering and one of the largest events of its type in the world, brings together global decision makers involved in the design, build, and testing of spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle, and space-related technologies.

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