It carries 24 K band transponders, to provide direct-to-home television broadcasting.

And if they cannot appeal to consumers' conscience, the direct-to-home television companies are willing to pay a bounty for the outlaw hardware.

With the development of multisatellite systems providing direct-to-home television broadcasts, telephone and Internet service, commercial launchings have tripled since the early 1990's.

Direct-to-home television is transmitted to subscribers via a signal, which is received and decoded at users' homes for a fee.

BS satellites were used for Direct-To-Home television services in Japan.

It provides direct-to-home television broadcasting services from the orbital location 0.8 W. It replaced Thor 3.

It was built primarily for direct-to-home television broadcasting, TV distribution and VSAT services.

The first Soviet geostationary satellite to carry Direct-To-Home television, called Ekran, was launched in 1976.

A unit of Grupo Televisa S.A. said today that it had won a Government concession to provide direct-to-home television.

PAS-5 provides satellite services in the Americas, with access to Europe, including direct-to-home television services in Mexico.

But a recent civil suit by a loosely woven consortium of specialty channels and direct-to-home television distributors, including Expressvu, took gray market suppliers in Canada to court.

ProtoStar's anchor customer, Dish TV India Limited, is the largest direct-to-home television operator in India.

The Champion Telecom Platform operates a satellite teleport facility in Connecticut that was acquired from the failed AlphaStar satellite direct-to-home television service.

Tee-Comm Electronics was a Canadian satellite television equipment manufacturer that founded the AlphaStar as well as co-founded the Bell TV satellite direct-to-home television services.

The dispute with Canada over providing direct-to-home television is hampering a fully legal satellite service from being made available to Canadian consumers, who continue to snap up the gray market satellites at a rate of more than 20,000 a month.

Most satellites used for direct-to-home television in Europe have the same high power output as DBS-class satellites in North America, but use the same linear polarization as FSS-class satellites.

Yesterday afternoon in Washington, Reed E. Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Javier Lozano Alarcon, subsecretary of the Mexican communications ministry, signed an agreement that gives both countries broad access to each other's rapidly growing direct-to-home television markets.

On July 18, 2011, Forbes India reported that Timbre Media was re-launching WorldSpace Radio in association with Sa Re Ga Ma in September 2011, although it would only be streamed through mobile phones, the Internet and direct-to-home television networks.