Usa And Rest Of The World

摘要

Intelsat, the world's largest commercial satellite operator, is reportedly up for sale. Private equity firms Apax, Apollo, Madison Dearborn and Permira paid $3.1 billion to take Intelsat private in 2004, before merging it with rival PanAmSat. GE Media, Communications and Entertainment, a division of GE Commercial Finance, launched a ￡250 million investment fund for media and technology businesses with NBC Universal. Cablevision will go to the US Court of Appeals to contest a ruling that halted its proposed network-based PVR service, which would remove the need to provide subscribers with a hard drive in a set-top box. A number of broadcasters and studios successfully argued that this would essentially offer a video-on-demand service and infringe content copyright. Comcast, the US cable operator, became the first company to sign a content distribution deal with the proposed online video service being created by News Corp and NBC Universal.