DBS technology is used for DTH-oriented ( Direct-To-Home ) satellite TV services, such as DirecTV and DISH Network in the United States, Bell TV and Shaw Direct in Canada, Freesat and Sky Digital in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and New Zealand and DSTV in South Africa.

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.

The term is rarely used in recent times due to the general move towards pay television and subscription-based DBS services like DirecTV, Dish Network, Bell TV, and Sky TV, although it is still sometimes used to refer to receiving digital TV " backhaul " feeds from FSS-type satellites.

Among the earliest practices that are frequently mentioned are Big Sky Telegraph ( Montana, USA ), Cleveland Free-Net ( Cleveland, USA ) Public Electronic Network ( PEN ) in Santa Monica ( California, USA ), Digital Stad in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands ).

On 26 July 2010, Sky News HD launched on the Orbit Showtime Network, broadcasting to the Middle East and Africa.

Several years earlier, after the merger between Sky Television plc & British Satellite Broadcasting, Hammel's introduction was " This is Sky News a part of the British Sky Broadcasting Network "; in 1993 the introduction was " From the Sky satellite network this is Sky News "; and by 1995 " This is Sky News, part of the Sky Television Network "-or just " This is Sky News ".

Sky News returned to Virgin Media Network along with all the other " Sky Basics " channels that were removed in March 2007.

While Foxtel on 7 January 2008, spun off a business channel from Sky News Australia called, Sky News Business Channel ( which named after Fox Business Network in United States ).

** Satellite television service Sky Television plc is launched in Europe.

A consortium of Carlton Television, Granada Television and British Sky Broadcasting won the auction as British Digital Broadcasting ( BDB ).

BSkyB was forced by the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ) to withdraw from the consortium on competition grounds ; this effectively placed Sky in direct competition with the newly launched service ( although BSkyB was still forced to provide key channels such as Sky Movies and Sky Sports to the service ).

* The Pope and the Mafia Millions, Sky Television

Formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB is the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 11 million subscribers.

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.

Sky Television may refer to:

* Sky Television plc, the name of the four-channel network launched by Rupert Murdoch in 1989 ; merged with British Satellite Broadcasting to form BSkyB

It also founded two of the UK's earliest cable television channels, Lifestyle and Screensport through its WHSTV division, which were carried on almost every cable system in the UK and Ireland prior to the start of Sky Television.

Granada Plus was a general entertainment channel, a 50 – 50 joint venture between Granada Television and British Sky Broadcasting, aimed at older audiences using archived material.

Direct broadcast satellite service has been available since the late 1980s with the arrival of free-to-air satellite Astra and subscription service Sky Television.

On 5 February 1989, when Sky Television launched.

* GMTV ( changed to Good Morning Television as the bid name ' Sunrise Television ' was already used by Sky News ) outbid TV-am for the Breakfast television licence.

Based at a news centre in London, Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service.

Sky News was the only UK 24 hour news channel ( aside from CNN International on Astra 1A, BBC World Service Television started in 1991 but has never been broadcast in the UK ) until November 1997 when BBC News launched a new 24 hour channel, BBC News 24, now known simply as BBC News.

The figure dropped slightly in the early years of the 21st century due to the increased popularity of satellite reception, notably Sky, but has stabilized recently.

The Theran presence in Barsaive has been limited to a small part of south-western Barsaive, located around the magical fortress of Sky Point and the city of Vivane.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK-specific advertising, headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks.

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988 ; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky.

In Sino-Tibetan and Turco-Mongol traditions, the Supreme God is commonly referred to as the ruler of Heaven, or the Sky Lord granted with omnipotent powers, but it has largely diminished in those regions due to ancestor worship, Taoism's pantheistic views and Buddhism's rejection of a creator God, although Mahayana Buddhism does seem to keep a sense of divinity.

On some occasions in the mythology, the Sky Lord as identified as a male has been associated to mate with an Earth Mother, while some traditions kept the omnipotence of the Sky Lord unshared.

The university ’ s first-year renewable energy purchase through Blue Sky and 3Degrees has the combined environmental benefit of taking more than 13, 200 cars off the road for one year or planting 1. 7 million trees.

Since then the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has found over 9, 000 white dwarfs, mostly new.

Amstrad has been a major supplier of set top boxes to UK satellite TV provider Sky since its launch in 1989.

Amstrad was key to the introduction of Sky, as it was the only manufacturer producing receiver boxes and dishes at the system's launch, and has continued to manufacture set top boxes for Sky, from analogue to digital and now including Sky's Sky + digital video recorder.

Sky polarization has been exploited in the " sky compass ", which was used in the 1950s when navigating near the poles of the Earth's magnetic field when neither the sun nor stars were visible ( e. g., under daytime cloud or twilight ).

Their motto was: " The firmament has perished, the Yellow Sky will soon rise ; in this year of jiazi, let there be prosperity in the world!

Although recognized primarily for The Red Badge of Courage, which has become an American classic, Crane is also known for short stories such as " The Open Boat ", " The Blue Hotel ", " The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ", and The Monster.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson noted that Farmer in the Sky " has harsh realism for a juvenile.

The reformed band has released two new studio albums: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky in 2010, followed by 2012's The Seer.

* The Star Trek novel Strangers from the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno has Captain Kirk using Dreamtime to investigate an altered reality.

Dyavaprthivi has mistakenly been labeled a Hindu god who later split into Dyaus, the Sky Father, and Prthivi, the Earth Mother.

Still, over the past few decades, the city leadership has succeeded in bringing retail development to the western portion of Duarte beginning, notably, with the redevelopment of the Big Sky Drive-in Theater as a shopping plaza with a Gemco superstore ( which is now a Target ).

Yucca Valley has 3 neighborhood elementary schools — Onaga Elementary, Yucca Mesa Elementary, and Yucca Valley Elementary ; one middle school — La Contenta Middle School ; and two high schools -- Yucca Valley High School and Sky Continuation High School.

The Sky Ranch airfield site has been covered by housing developments, which are expanding in the area as the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area expands.

The Grove has become home to three massive homes: Cielo E Mar ( an aria from the 1876 opera La Gioconda which translates to " Sky and Sea "), the Belvedere, and Bottom of the Garden.