| SATCOM satellite communication is among the leading private providers of mobile satellite broadcasting in Europe. As early as 1992, shortly after the liberalisation of the telecommunication market from monopolists Deutsche Bundespost, as it gradually opened up SATCOM began conquering the market with innovative products. One of our first innovations was only known to few back then: mobile television studio technology integrated in turn-key outdoor broadcast vans. At that time such vans, known as SNG vehicles, were only known to few from the USA – and were still few and far between. In Germany up to that point reporters used either separate broadcast trailers / radio units or had to depend on fixed telephone lines for their reporting, which inevitably led to considerable delays in getting breaking news reports back to the station. Being the first to be granted a private broadcasting licence in 1991/92 SATCOM collaborated with Deutsche Telekom in the form of a joint venture; then from 1992 SATCOM invested in its own broadcasting centre. |
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| The company took a further innovative step in the year 1996, when one of our fly-away units, at the time being used by ZDF television to cover the hostage situation at the Japanese embassy in Lima (Latin America), suddenly had to be switched from the then standard analogue broadcast signal to digital transmission. This first “occasional use” transmission in digital technology heralded a new era in mobile broadcasting services. The DSNG was born and SATCOM was once again forging new paths in the implementation of innovative technologies, which reached an even higher peak with the construction of “SATCOM easyLINK“, the first fully remote-controlled satellite broadcasting system, which is meanwhile being made in serial production. |
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