However, Bahrain will host the Saudi-financed Al-Arab satellite news TV channel, expected to launch in 2013.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
Assange and RT, an English-language international satellite news channel, would not release the guest lineup in advance, but hinted that the first interview would be controversial.
Satellite news trucks began arriving to report on the tragedy.
The channel, whose first program will be a news bulletin, will compete directly against Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN International and BBC World, the two main global English-language satellite news channels.
As a relatively new immigrant population, the connections of the domestic Muslim community to the Muslim community abroad are deep, daily, and continuous, fed by a robust exposure to Arabic and Indo-Pakistani satellite news media which is most often Islamist.
"The fact that they didn't act more quickly is mind-boggling, " says Bob L. Scherman, publisher of Satellite Business News.
He is also developing a new Arabic-language satellite-news channel with Bloomberg LP.
With a global satellite presence, News Corp would be able to chop up and repackage content for different markets many times over.
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IBiquity's mission is to defend conventional broadcast radio against the up-and-coming threat of satellite radio services, particularly XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Sirius Satellite Radio (nasdaq: SIRI - news - people ).
Finally, after years in regulatory purgatory, Sirius Satellite Radio (nasdaq: SIRI - news - people ) was finally able to complete its acquisition of XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ).
Twelve policemen and a child are among those killed, Pakistani satellite TV channel Geo News reports.
New data from the Planck satellite suggests very good news for proponents of the standard Big Bang cosmological model of the universe.
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Other buys for the M100 included gas and electric utility Dominion Resources (nyse: D - news - people ), automotive safety systems maker Autoliv (nyse: ALV - news - people ) and satellite radio service company XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ).
False news peddled by satellite TVs are arrows which you should deflect towards their throats.
Tory MP Mr Hunt had been given the quasi-legal job of deciding the fate of satellite broadcaster BSkyB - which News Corp wanted to take full control of.
Among the possibilities: EchoStar could yield some of its satellite slots to Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVS - news - people ), strengthening a potential satellite rival.
After signing on with Andretti Green Racing, Patrick has secured Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) as her chief car sponsor, backed up by XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Go Daddy.
The satellite-linked network will show news, previews of ABC shows and Disney movies, and, of course, advertising.
To maintain the attractiveness of satellite television, for instance, News Corporation has subsidised digital video recorders for its customers, which allow them to record programmes and watch them when they like.
It effectively spells a renegotiation of Disney's decade-old distribution deal with British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), Britain's leading satellite provider, which is majority owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
By 2000 Murdoch was in charge of News Corp's Asian satellite business, Star TV, where he appeared to find his feet.
He also stood down as chairman of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, which owns Sky News, part of the News Corp. empire, earlier this month.
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The news comes only two days after James Murdoch -- the son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch -- stepped down as chairman of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, which owns Sky News, part of the News Corp. empire.
Sky News' managing editor, Peter Lowe, wrote in a blog post Thursday that the satellite broadcaster, which is also part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, did not intend to publish because it accepts that Harry "has a reasonable expectation of privacy" while in a hotel room on vacation.
Murdoch's not saying exactly how he plans to tackle the piracy problem, but his solution will most likely involve NDS (nasdaq: NNDS - news - people ), a British company that makes encrypted cards for Murdoch's satellite holdings in Europe, and is 80%-owned by News Corp (nyse: NWS - news - people ).
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"Processing more of this imagery would allow us to provide more robust conclusions about how recent sea-ice change compares with that of the pre-satellite measurement era, " he told BBC News.
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While the likelihood of actually getting struck by a satellite or satellite debris is extremely rare, the good news is that if one does hit you, your home, your car or your place of business, you would be financially protected by insurance.
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In addition to Netflix, TV and movie fans can access Amazon Instant video (including free programs on Amazon prime), Vudu, Hulu Plus, HBO Go (you need a cable or satellite subscription to sign in) and even news and information channels ranging from Al Jazeera English live programming to Fox News, HuffPost Live and plenty more.
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