Satellite Entertainment

Internet outages hit India, Middle East (AP via Yahoo! News)
India’s lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country’s bandwidth in half.

ESPN and XM Satellite Radio to Launch ‘ESPN Xtra’ Radio Channel (Mobile Electronics)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 — Washington, D.C. — ESPN and XM Satellite Radio announced that XM will add a new slate of ESPN programs to its line up starting February 4 featuring a new ESPN Radio-dedicated channel.

Indian outsourcing sector hit by Internet disruption (AFP via Yahoo! News)
India’s vital outsourcing industry, which relies heavily on the Internet, was grappling with a major communications disruption Thursday after damage to undersea cables thousands of kilometres away in the Mediterranean.

New 24-hour TV channel begins broadcasting in Russia (Itar-Tass)
MOSCOW, January 30 (Itar-Tass) — A new 24-hour satellite television channel, Zakon TV (Law TV), has started broadcasting in Russia. The main purpose of this project is legal enlightening of citizens , NTV Plus Director General Dmitry Samokhin said.