The American Dish Network DBS service has also recently utilized FSS technology as well for their programming packages requiring their SuperDish antenna, due to Dish Network needing more capacity to carry local television stations per the FCC's " must-carry " regulations, and for more bandwidth to carry HDTV channels.

The second commercial DBS service, Sky Television plc ( now BSkyB after its merger with British Satellite Broadcasting's five-channel network ), was launched in 1989.

Since the DBS nomenclature is rarely used in the UK or Ireland, the popularity of Sky's service has caused the terms " minidish " and " digibox " to be applied to products other than Sky's hardware.

Dominion Video Satellite Inc .' s Sky Angel launch on a satellite platform in the United States in 1996 with its DBS service geared toward the faith and family market.

Sky Angel, although a separate and independent DBS service, used the same satellites, transmission facilities, & receiving equipment used for Dish Network through an agreement with Echostar.

These are not marketed as a DBS service, but are received in approximately 12 million homes, as well as in any home using the Sky Deutschland commercial DBS system.

For Ku satellites in DBS ( Direct Broadcast Satellite ) service ( 12. 2-12. 7GHz in the U. S .) dishes much smaller than 1-meter can be used because those satellites are spaced 9 degrees apart.

The IBA decided to then moved the project into the private sector by inviting companies to apply for a new television franchise via satellite, to provide a commercial service on three of the five DBS in April 1986.

On 15 April 2010, DBS Bank launched mobile banking service, mBanking, to both DBS and POSB customers.

In this decade the Korean broadcasting industry will maximize the service with new technological developments such as DBS, satellites, and interactive cable systems, all of which will allow Korea to participate fully in the information society.

In April 1997, Sky introduced a nationwide analogue direct broadcasting via satellite ( DBS ) service over the Optus B1 satellite.

The unreliability of the ageing Optus B1 satellite was highlighted when the direct broadcasting satellite ( DBS ) service went offline just before 7p. m.

Sky switched its DBS service to the Optus D1 satellite on 15 November 2006.

In a move to convert the platform to DBS, PrimeStar bid for the 110-degree satellite location that was eventually awarded to a never-launched direct broadcast satellite service by MCI and News Corporation called ASkyB.

In the late 1980s the IBA was appointed as regulator and transmitter operator for the first DBS ( Direct Broadcasting by Satellite ) service for the UK and awarded the franchise to BSB ( British Satellite Broadcasting ).

Tee-Comm on its own managed to launch the first DBS service in Canada, AlphaStar, in early 1997 ; however, in a matter of months the company went bankrupt and the service was discontinued, leaving thousands of consumers with useless receivers.

* Orbit Communications Company, a former DBS satellite service in the Middle East

is a direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ) service that provides satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services to households in Japan, owned by parent company SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.

e2 is also a direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ) service.

The league also signed an exclusivity agreement with the direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ) service DirecTV to launch NFL Sunday Ticket, a satellite television subscription service that offers every regular season NFL game.

A direct broadcast satellite is a communications satellite that transmits to small DBS satellite dishes ( usually 18 to 24 inches or 45 to 60 cm in diameter ).

The small dishes may either be fixed ( much like DBS antennas ), positioned using a rotor ( usually DiSEqC-standard ) or may be toroidal in design ( twin toroidal reflectors focus the incoming signal as a line, not a point, so that multiple LNBs may receive signal from multiple satellites ).

As a technical matter, DBS ( also known by the International Telecommunication Union as Broadcasting Satellite Service, or BSS ) refers only to services transmitted by satellite in specific frequency bands: 11. 7-12. 2 GHz in ITU Region 3 ( Asia, Australia ), 10. 7-12. 75 GHz in ITU Region 1 ( Europe, Russia, Africa ), and 12. 2-12. 7 GHz ITU Region 2 ( North and South America ).

Directly Bookable Services ( DBS ) refers to hospitals using Choose and Book compliant PAS systems.

The SuperDish, Dish 500 +, and Dish 1000 + systems receive DBS signals from both of the primary 110 ° W and 119 ° W locations ( 129 ° W for Dish 1000 +) as well as lower-powered FSS signals from either 121 ° W, 105 ° W, or 118. 75 ° W.

The integration of both banks allowed customers of either bank to share the facilities ; DBS Bank depositors may use the Cash Deposit Machine installed islandwide in POSBank branches, likewise for POSBank depositors.

Television receive-only, TVRO, or Big ugly dish ( BUD ), is a term used in North America to refer to the reception of satellite television from FSS-type satellites, generally on C-band analog ; free-to-air and unconnected to a commercial DBS provider.

On 1 July 1985, the Home Secretary asked the IBA to review prospects for commercial DBS.

KBS began to accept advertising in 1980 after the forced merger of some private commercial broadcasting stations like Tongyang Broadcasting Company ( TBC ), the former body of JTBC, and Dong-A Broadcasting System ( DBS ) into KBS by the military government.

Cancom was a world leader with its pioneering technical expertise, ( including the first commercial and consumer applications of digital encryption for satellite TV distribution ) and the first carrier to offer consumers direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ) services.

This is seen in some of the older commercial buildings, such as the OCBC Centre by I. M. Pei, as well as many buildings built to house governmental offices and government-linked companies, including the Singapore Land Tower, Temasek Tower, DBS Building, and the CPF Building.

* DBS Group Holdings Ltd ( DBSH ) – 1, 830, 622 shares ( 0. 08 %), in which subsidiaries in DBSH group is deemed to have an interest.

Due to concern over the use of DBS in the treatment of Tourette syndrome, the Tourette Syndrome Association convened a group of experts to develop recommendations guiding the use and potential clinical trials of DBS for TS.

Before these DBS satellites, home satellite television in Europe was limited to a few channels, really intended for cable distribution, and requiring dishes typically of 1. 2m.

Germany is likely the leader in free-to-air ( FTA ) DBS, with approximately 200 digital FTA channels ( including 18 HDTV channels and various regional channels ) broadcast from the Astra 19. 2 ° E satellite constellation.

From the 1970s to the early 1990s DBS systems weren't available, and cable TV systems of the time only carried a few channels, resulting in a boom in sales of BUDs in the area, which led to the systems being termed the " West Virginia state flower ".

For most of the 1990s however, Sky's DBS customer base in Ireland was dwarfed by the large numbers receiving its channels via cable.

In 1977 the World Administrative Radio Conference assigned each country five high-powered channels for direct broadcast by satellite ( DBS ) for domestic use.

The IBA received five serious bids for the high-powered DBS channels ;

BSB also received a needed boost in June 1989 when they won the franchises for the two remaining British high-powered DBS channels ; beating six other bidders when BBC dropped all plans for use of the allocated channels.

After the merger with Tongyang Broadcasting Company ( TBC ) and DBS, KBS changed these channels to KBS Radio 2 ( AM / FM ) and television station KBS 2TV in 1980 and created KBS 3TV and Educational FM in 1981.

NASA TV, Pentagon Channel, ABC News Now, ThisTV, TheCoolTV, and Retro Television Network ( through its affiliates ) are examples, international news channels like Al Jazeera English are commonly watched this way as a result to the lack of availability on Cable, DBS and IPTV.

The DBS services gave Sky the opportunity to offer its customers more channels and interactive options.

Telesat carries Canada's two major DBS providers signals: Bell TV and Shaw Direct, as well as more than 200 of Canada's television channels.

For video distribution, this means that local channels and local advertising can be injected into the signal, unlike with DBS satellite systems.