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BSkyB has won a trademark dispute over the Now TV brand after a high court judge threw out a challenge from the Hong Kong-based telecoms company PCCW. Mr Justice Arnold [...]

Byline: Philip Hunter The early-2012 arrival of Netflix appears to be enough to allow BSkyB to escape having to reduce its domination of the UK pay-TV movie market. The UKas [...]

Byline: Philip Hunter Europeas position over enforcement of exclusive rights to show sports in each country is still unclear after what appeared to be a landmark victory for an individual [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The Senate Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing this Wednesday on retransmission, a hot topic in light of the high-profile dispute between News Corp. and Cablevision that [...]

Jefferson City, MO - Sep 8, 2010 - Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster obtained a temporary restraining order against Sirius XM Radio for making solicitation calls to Missourians who had [...]

BSkyB will continue in a legal appeal against Ofcom's powers, despite reaching an interim settlement to provide its sports content to rival pay-TV operators for less. Sky's chief executive, Jeremy [...]

Sky and Virgin Media have ended their 20-month dispute over carriage of Sky's basic channels on the Virgin platform. Sky channels including Sky News, Sky 1 and Sky Sports News [...]

Virgin Media and BSkyB have appealed against the Competition Commission's ruling that BSkyB must reduce its stake in ITV below 7.5 per cent. Virgin is arguing that Sky should be [...]

By Mike Farrell Class-Action Suit On Insider Selling Prompts a Probe XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an informal investigation [...]

By Staff Oppenheimer & Co. cable and satellite analyst Tom Eagan reiterated his 'buy' rating on XM Satellite Radio last week, but warned investors that the stock may continue to [...]

ITV has withdrawn a formal complaint against BSkyB as it begins contract negotiations with the satellite broadcaster over the broadcast of ITV's regional variants. The complaint was lodged at the [...]

In a move that could usher in another level of competition between cable operators and the satellite and phone companies, Cablevision Systems is expected to announce Monday that it is [...]

Al-Jazeera, the controversial Arab-language satellite TV network, is hardly the first to have a landlord-tenant problem. But it has scored dubious bragging rights in Washington as one of the few [...]

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court here has ruled that property renters have a right to install direct-broadcast satellite dishes in locations under their control, even if such action is [...]

Broadcasters see 'take one, take all' provision of must-carry as the key to court victories Broadcasters won a victory in a Virginia federal district court when that court ruled that [...]

WASHINGTON -- After losing the first round of must-carry litigation to broadcasters, the direct-broadcast satellite industry finally got some good news on the lawsuit front. On June 22, the U.S. [...]

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. District Court judge in Virginia has tossed out the direct-broadcast satellite industry's constitutional challenge of a 1999 law that required the carriage of all local TV [...]

A federal judge has ruled that satellite TV carrier PrimeTime 24 must pay the National Football League $2.6 million in damages for transmitting NFL games to Canada without permission. The [...]

Broadcasters will be allowed status as defendants in a suit satellite broadcasters filed against the U.S. government in September, a federal court has ruled. The satellite industry wants the court [...]

WASHINGTON -- Thou sands of home satellite-dish owners who live in rental units could lose service if real-estate interests prevail in overturning federal rules designed to curb landlords' control over [...]

Fox Sports Net, a minority owner of Home Team Sports, said it planned to sue Viacom Inc. and Comcast Corp. over the proposed sale of the Bethesda, Md.-based regional sports [...]

Pit EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen against some of the savviest corporate giants--Rupert Murdoch, for instance--and Ergen comes out a winner. But Ergen now faces a potentially tougher opponent: his own [...]

As expected, a Miami federal court last week officially postponed until Feb. 28 a preliminary injunction that will shut off distant network signals to thousands of satellite TV customers. The [...]

If TV station owners stick to their guns, a dispute between an Emmis Communications CBS affiliate and Cox Cable, the local operator in Omaha, Neb., will become the Fort Sumter [...]

Satellite pioneer Dr. Clay Whitehead has a $1.6 billion beef with the owner of Europe's Astra satellite TV system. In a lawsuit filed this month in an Alexandria, Va., court, [...]

SIRIUS XM SUED: Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster obtained a temporary restraining order against Sirius XM Radio, alleging it was calling and soliciting satellite radio subscriptions from Missourians whose names [...]

Howard Stern and CBS Corp. on May 26 announced they reached a settlement in a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by the CBS Radio unit against the shock jock. As part of [...]

The major record companies sued XM Satellite Radio over its XM + MP3 service claiming 'massive wholesale infringement' of their recordings. The suit, filed May 16 in the federal District [...]

The National Association of Broadcasters filed a petition last week with the Federal Communications Commission, calling for the FCC to deny the transfer of WCS Wireless licenses to XM Satellite [...]

In an effort to collect overdue subscription fees, Fox Sports Net June 14 filed a lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Corp. in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Found money is usually a pleasant surprise, but not if you think you should get more, After Fox Sports Net received an unexplained $10.3 million 'shortfall' payment [...]

The Canadian Recording Industry Assn. (CRIA) has filed motions in federal court to require five Canadian Internet service providers to disclose the identities of individuals the organization claims are illegally [...]

Loral Space & Communications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week and also agreed to sell its six North American satellites to Intelsat for $1.1 billion, a move that [...]

Litigants in a long-running fight over Lockheed Martin's purchase of Comsat are hoping the increasing profile of indecent-programming decisions (Eminem, Sarah Jones) will help their cause. Last week, the Litigation [...]

MCLEAN, VA. -- StarBand Communications Inc. confirmed last Friday that it has settled a dispute with one of its early partners, EchoStar Communications Corp., over customer, billing and payment issues. [...]

McLEAN, VA. -- StarBand Communications Inc. said Friday that it has sued EchoStar Communications Corp., asking the direct-broadcast satellite company to transfer StarBand's customer records to the two-way satellite Internet [...]

The Office of Fair Trading has decided to give BSkyB more time to defend itself against charges of anti-competitive behavior. Some feel the Office of Fair Trading is doing this to avoid a fight with BSkyB.

The Office of Fair Trading extends BSkyB's deadline to respond to allegations that it breached competition rules under the 1998 Competition Act. Sky could appeal to the Competition Commission if found guilty.

Comsat's legal bid to escape FCC regulatory fees was rejected by federal appeals judges. The FCC removed Comsat's longstanding exemption after Congress enacted the Open Market Reorganization for the Betterment [...]

News Corporation is to pay $930 million in cash and stock to WorldCom, the telecoms company, settling a dispute stemming from a failed attempt to build a US satellite TV [...]

Johnson Broadcasting Inc., which owns a pair of Texas TV stations denied carriage by DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp., is taking the satellite carriers to federal court in a [...]

USSB succeeds in overturning content-based fee on PPV U.S. District Court judge has ruled that California's 'Boxing Act' targeting pugilistic pay per view is unconstitutional. The satellite broadcaster who brought [...]

Speedvision and Outdoor Life Networks last week reiterated their request that the FCC postpone a program-access complaint filed by satellite broadcaster Echostar. The cable networks said regulators should take no [...]

United Video Satellite Group Inc., heading toward a closing of its $2 billion acquisition of TV Guide, stumbled last week after a partially unfavorable ruling in its long-running patent litigation [...]

The FCC last week dismissed EchoStar Communications Corp.'s program-access complaint against Comcast Corp., Comcast-Spectacor and Philadelphia Sports Media. EchoStar complained to the FCC that Comcast engaged in 'discrimination and unfair [...]

The satellite TV industry and copyright holders last week fought over royalty fees before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit. The U.S. Copyright [...]