Star-studded movie musical 'Nine' is leading the way at the 14th annual Satellite Awards with 11 nominations.
Gay cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain was the big winner at the Satellite Awards in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, picking up four accolades.
The possibility that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp might add Hughes Electronic's DirecTV to his worldwide satellite-to-home operation appeared increasingly dubious following News Corp's decision to cut the cash component of its bid by around $1 billion
Although CBS's Survivor 3 is being shot under strict secrecy in Kenya, USA Today is today publishing photos of the production site taken from a spy satellite.
In one of the largest in-theater promotions ever, XM Satellite Radio began trumpeting its satellite-delivered digital radio service with a 60-second ad shown on more than 19,000 movie screens in 3,000 theaters over the weekend.
Japan's Toshiba Corp and AOL Time Warner are planning a joint enterprise to distribute motion pictures via satellite to theaters around the world.
An executive of Boeing Satellite systems said Monday that the company will begin distributing movies to theaters via satellite on a test basis in November or December of this year, with a large-scale, formal rollout in late spring of 2002.
Analysts are speculating that if Rupert Murdoch succeeds in acquiring the DirecTV satellite service, he may cut prices of subscription services out of hand, thereby touching off a price war with rival satellite broadcaster EchoStar (DISH Network) and cable broadcasters, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.