he Russian satellite platform, a leader in the country, claims that in early June they were a victim of numerous attacks by hackers that had decommissioned five main channels.
These “pirates” have entered the central computers of Tricolor TV. The channels affected were the Russians Pervyj, Rossija 1 Rossija2, Rossija 24 and NTV.
Tricolor has more than 5 million subscribers and is ranked second in European satellite platforms after British Sky Digital (BSkyB) and before the French CanalSat.
A total of 33 television channels are offered by the Russian satellite platform. Tricolor TV is distributed via satellite Eutelsat W4 (36 ° East) and uses only three transponders.
The platform uses the conditional access system DRE-Crypt to encrypt its signal.
On 11 June this year about 2,000 subscribers reported problems with their smart cards to access the Tricolor TV platform.
Tricolor TV technicians are working to resume the affected channel access, a task that seems easy at the moment. Tricolor TV appears to have taken drastic measures with DRE-Crypt to the extent that the July 15 version will implemented a “soft” system in order to change the affected cards.
Tricolor TV is giving away as compensation to their subscribers two free months of subscription of its basic package.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Good News for Old Fta Receivers
By · CommentsDo not throw away your old FTA receivers.There is a new company to launch around 30 Free FTA english,good,channels ,on your old fta receiver,
ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox have been added to the channel list
The proposed orbital position for our satellite will be between 80 and 100 degrees west.
Proposed Channel Lineup
Space Vid Cast
Making Space Commonplace
Educational television, documentaries and more..
GAMC The Golden Age of Movies Channel
White Springs Television, Older movies and tunes.
DBS News Direct Broadcast Satellite News
Updated news on the hour, every hour repeated throughout the day. Not Left, Not Right, No political agenda, No Talk.
Contact: Brittney Clayton
TAC The Aviation Channel
Channel deals with private aviation aircraft building, repair and air shows.
Owner/Manager: Jack Bills
CBTV CowBoy Television
All westerns all the time.
Program Advisor: Joe Renck
MMC Mountain Music Channel
Hill Billy TV at its finest. Something different than country, with down home musicians and music videos like you have never seen or heard before from Whitesburg, Kentucky. Contact: Carlos York
IEC International Explorer Channel
Nature and Outdoors channel, (documentary)
HBC Home Builder’s Channel
Featuring construction, remodeling, Real Estate, Architect and Design.
Owner/Manager: Mike Mann
FBTV Funny Bone Television
The Laugh Network, Comedy at its best, from amateur to professional, movies and stand up.
Owner/Manager: Daniel Drechsel
TRC The Race Channel
Auto racing, demolition derby, and more..
Owner/Manager: Jack Bills
Adviser: Steve(Fly) Kimberlin
TFMC The Free Movie Channel
This channel is being organized, the name will change.
Producer: Mr. Ed
Assistant Producer: Tracy Wilder
FSC Free Sports Channel
NFL, NBA, college and more…
Sports Director : John Bryant
Sports Adviser : John Raymer
NASA The NASA Channel
Reserved for NASA
God bless all the people from NASA and associates who made this technology possible.
CBS CBS Affiliate Super Station
Reserved Space for a CBS Super station
ABC ABC Affiliate Super Station
Reserved Space for an ABC Super station
ION ION Television
Reserved for ION
DBC Diamond Billiards Channel
Cue sports at its best, tournaments, and training. All Billiards! Contact Pat Fleming for more information.
GATV The Golden Age of TV
Old favorites such as Milton Berle, Groucho Marx and Howdy Doody.
TFC The Farm Channel
Up-to-date market prices, when to plant, what to plant and market predictions. Information and documentaries on live stock, dairy, and crops.
WWTV World War Television
(documentary) films and documentary from past world wars.
DBSI Direct Broadcast Satellite Information
Program guide
CN Cuisine Network
Food preparations, world renowned chefs, diners, dieting and more. Producer: Lonnie Robertson
Assistant Producer: Joshua Robertson
HFC Hunting Fishing Channel
Contact Mike Spencer
KTVC Kids Television Channel
MXTV Mexico Television
Spanish variety TV
FFC Free Fight Channel
Boxing, martial arts, Jujutsu, Wrestling
Contact: Mike Levato
Boxing Advisor: John Brooks
Ring Anouncer:Joe Starks
PCGAME Personal Computer and Computer Gaming Channel
All about gaming, latest games, PCs consoles and hacks. Producer: Mr. Ed
FTC Family Time Channel
Family Oriented Programming
NSFC New Sci-Fi Channel
Science Fiction Movies New and old..
FOX FOX Affiliate Super Station
Reserved Space for a FOX Super station
NBC NBC Affiliate Super Station
Reserved Space for a NBC Super station
CTV Caribbean Television
Popularity: 11% [?]
Telefónica expands HD lineup
By · CommentsTelefónica had added four new high-definition channels to its Spanish IPTV service ‘Movistar Imagenio’.
The new channels are: MGM HD, Unitel Classica HD, Eurosport HD and National Geographic Wild HD, with carriage of MGM HD and Unitel Classica HD being exclusive in Spain. The new additions bring the total number of HD channels available on the service to six.
The telco had reached 733,000 subscribers for Movistar Imagenio by the end of the first quarter of this year, adding 30,000 customers in the three-month period.
Popularity: 7% [?]
TiVo Inc. lost a ruling before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of a patent that’s the subject of a legal dispute with Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final rejection of two patent claims that were asserted against the satellite-television provider. The patent office review is a parallel proceeding to the legal case before a U.S. appeals court.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.
Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about:
“The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we’re getting together to discuss.”
The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.” It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.
Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. Putting satellites in ‘safe mode’ and disconnecting transformers can protect these assets from damaging electrical surges. Preventative action, however, requires accurate forecasting—a job that has been assigned to NOAA.
“Space weather forecasting is still in its infancy, but we’re making rapid progress,” says Thomas Bogdan, director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Bogdan sees the collaboration between NASA and NOAA as key. “NASA’s fleet of heliophysics research spacecraft provides us with up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening on the sun. They are an important complement to our own GOES and POES satellites, which focus more on the near-Earth environment.”
As the Sun Awakens… (movie strip, 568px)
Click on the image to play a 39 MB movie about space weather and NASA’s heliophysics fleet. [more]
Among dozens of NASA spacecraft, he notes three of special significance: STEREO, SDO and ACE.
STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is a pair of spacecraft stationed on opposite sides of the sun with a combined view of 90% of the stellar surface. In the past, active sunspots could hide out on the sun’s farside, invisible from Earth, and then suddenly emerge over the limb spitting flares and CMEs. STEREO makes such surprise attacks impossible.
SDO (the Solar Dynamics Observatory) is the newest addition to NASA’s fleet. Just launched in February, it is able to photograph solar active regions with unprecedented spectral, temporal and spatial resolution. Researchers can now study eruptions in exquisite detail, raising hopes that they will learn how flares work and how to predict them. SDO also monitors the sun’s extreme UV output, which controls the response of Earth’s atmosphere to solar variability.
As the Sun Awakens… (solar prominence, 200px)
On April 19, 2010, SDO observed one of the most massive eruptions in years. Earth was not in the line of fire … this time. [full story]
Bogdan’s favorite NASA satellite, however, is an old one: the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) launched in 1997. “Where would we be without it?” he wonders. ACE is a solar wind monitor. It sits upstream between the sun and Earth, detecting solar wind gusts, billion-ton CMEs, and radiation storms as much as 30 minutes before they hit our planet.
“ACE is our best early warning system,” says Bogdan. “It allows us to notify utility and satellite operators when a storm is about to hit.”
NASA spacecraft were not originally intended for operational forecasting—”but it turns out that our data have practical economic and civil uses,” notes Fisher. “This is a good example of space science supporting modern society.”
2010 marks the 4th year in a row that policymakers, researchers, legislators and reporters have gathered in Washington DC to share ideas about space weather. This year, forum organizers plan to sharpen the focus on critical infrastructure protection. The ultimate goal is to improve the nation’s ability to prepare, mitigate, and respond to potentially devastating space weather events.
“I believe we’re on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather.” Fisher concludes. “We take this very seriously indeed.”
Popularity: 5% [?]
DISH customers may lose local Fox station
By · CommentsDISH Network satellite TV customers in the Charlotte area may lose Fox affiliate WCCB (Channel 18) at midnight tonight because of a dispute over carriage fees.
Fox Charlotte and DISH have been unable to agree on how much the satellite provider will pay to retransmit the station’s signal to subscribers. Their agreement expires at the end of May, and months of negotiations have not brought a resolution, John Hutchinson, the station’s general manager, said in a statement.
Fox Charlotte had offered to extend the previous agreement with the satellite provider past the holiday weekend, when negotiations could resume, but DISH refused, Hutchinson said.
Customers who receive television over the air, on local cable systems or from other satellite providers will not be affected.
Popularity: 4% [?]
