Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Korean: 한국디지털위성방송) is a satellite broadcasting provider of South Korea.
[edit] Brief history
- December 19, 2000 - Korean Government decided as the official satellite television provider(KT-leaded KDB Consortium)
- March 30, 2001 - Established company
- March 1, 2002 - Officially opened the satellite broadcasting service
- December 24, 2002 - Number of subscribers exceeded 500,000
- May 21, 2003 - Interactive television and Dolby 5.1 surrounding service provided for the first time in South Korean television
- September 29, 2003 - HDTV service launched
- October 28, 2003 TV SMS service launched
- November 1, 2003 - T-Commerce service launched
- November 3, 2003 - Number of subscribers exceeded 1 million
- March 24, 2004 - Interactive election broadcasting serviced for the first time in Korea
- April 11, 2005 - TV Order service launched for the first time in Korea
- May 3, 2005 - TV Banking service launched for the first time in Korea
- January 25, 2006 - BBC WORLD launched
- June 14, 2006 - FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 rebroadcast to North Korea
- November 20, 2006 - SkyPVR, personal video recording service launched for the first time in Korea
- December 31, 2006 - Number of subscribers amounted to 1.96 million, resulting in yearly profit of 3.6 billion won
- February 24, 2007 - Number of subscribers reached exactly 2 million
- May 23, 2007 - SkyEnglishWorld, foreign language channels-only package released
[edit] Channels
Total 153 channels as of April 2008 (92 Video Channels/41 Audio Channels/20 Interactive Channels)
(full 'list of channels' on Skylife will upload soon. These channels are the sneak preview of it)
For full channel number listing and click here
Source: SkyLife Official Homepage
[edit] Investments
Based on the data of December 31, 2006.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ List of shareholders of SkyLife(Korean), taken from their official homepage.
[edit] External links
