WASHINGTON Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Approximately 500 middle school students and teachers at the Pinellas County Science Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. , will have an out-of-this-world phone conversation with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.

CORRECTION TO BROADCAST TIME: AIRS AT 2 PM ET NEW YORK Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first 13-week series of Carnegie Council's Global Ethics Forum airs nationally on MHz Worldview in September. Custom-designed for television, Global Ethics Forum is a half-hour international affairs program....

Today›s Arab media is rife with paradox. Compared to only a decade ago, today›s Arab world enjoys a dizzying variety of television stations, newspapers and internet sites.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 09/01/10 -- International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX: IDC), a global leader in providing IP-based datacasting solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia announced its lineup of products to be displayed at IBC 2010 today.

QINGDAO, China and ROCKVILLE, Md. Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Synutra International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYUT), a leading infant formula company in China and a producer, marketer and seller of nutritional products for infants, children and adults, today announced that on August 27th , the....

-- Google's YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood's leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content.

AFGHANISTAN Seven US troops die in combat Seven US soldiers and a candidate for Afghanistan's September polls have been killed in a wave of weekend attacks, officials said on Sunday as police found the bodies of five campaign workers. Two soldiers were killed on Sunday in separate attacks, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force .

Centron Telecom International Holdings Limited ("Centron Telecom" or "the Group") (Stock Code: 1155), a specialist in R&D, production and sale of mobile telecommunication and mobile digital television network coverage products and network optimization solutions, announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2010.

SALES receipts, satellite photos and now home videos will be used in Greece in a never-ending quest against tax evasion.

A number of satellite companies (including Western companies) continue providing communication services for Hezbollah and Hamas' television and radio, even though restrictions have been imposed by Europe and the United States. Supported by foreign companies, Hezbollah and Hamas are able to extend....

If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series - watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand - you're now in the minority.

AP - If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand you're now in the minority.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is reducing its stake in three television stations in China and is taking on a local partner.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sells controlling stakes in three Chinese television channels and a library films to a state-backed private equity group.

LAS VEGAS Aug. 9 -- Today, GenosTV announces that it is seeking beta testers to ensure its service exceeds consumers' expectations for the next generation cable television service. Interested parties are encouraged to email all of their contact information, prior relevant experience and why they....

The Ariane 5 carrier rocket launched from the Kourou space center delivered its dual-satellite payload into orbit.

RE'EM, Israel August 3, 2010 -- RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a rapidly growing provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today that it has launched a new platform on the....

DISH ). The deal was effective Sunday, according to a DirecTV spokesman. Dish declined to comment, and CenturyLink wasn't immediately available for comment. It's a victory for DirecTV, which has locke...

See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv...

Pay-TV company Vietnam Satellite Digital Television has been ordered to share telecast rights of international football games with other networks in the country.

July 29, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) –The First independent Ethiopian satellite service (ESAT) said its transmissions in Ethiopia are intercepted for the third time since last May when the service was launched for the first time. The Amsterdam-based Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) in a press release....

The ability to watch what you want, when you want is "coming soon" to televisions in the Emirates.

Arab Satellites Communication Organization (Arabsat) has suspended the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian Television (ETV) after the Meles regime has repeatedly interfered with Arabsat signals to jam Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT), according to Addisvoice. Arabsat, which is owned by the Arab League, has....

ADB Holdings S.A. / ADB BRINGS HIGH DEFINITION DIGITAL SATELLITE TV TO SLOVAK TELEKOM processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ADB supplies two hybrid July 28(th) 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland: Advanced HD interactive set-top Digital Broadcast (www.

The biggest western act to play Damascus, Damon Albarn's band avoid Glastonbury mistakes for a rapturous welcome From the moment Snoop Dogg's face appeared on two giant television screens at the back of the stage, set against the walls of the historic 11th-century Damascus Citadel , the Syrian....