- SkyLife
Infobox Company
company_name = SkyLife
company_
company_type = Public
company_slogan =
foundation = 2001
location = 100Gongpyeong-dong ,Jongno-gu ,Seoul
flagicon|KORSouth Korea
key_people = Mongryong Lee CEO
num_employees = 280 (as of 30 April 2007)
industry =Telecommunication Media
products =Direct broadcast satellite
Pay TV services & Programming
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
homepage = [http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/index.jsp www.skylife.co.kr]Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting(한국디지털위성방송) is a satellite broadcasting provider of
South Korea .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 thesatellite broadcasting service
*December 24 ,2002 - Number of subscribers exceeded 500,000
*May 21 ,2003 -Interactive television andDolby 5.1 surrounding service provided for the first time inSouth 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 releasedChannels
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)
* KBS1
* KBS2
* MBC
* SBS
* EBS
*Arirang TV
*Animal Planet
* AXN Korea
*BBC World
*BBC Entertainment
*CNN International
*CCTV-4
*Discovery Channel
* Disney Channel Korea
*NHK World Premium For full channel number listing and click [http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/channel/sub02_3.html here]
Source: SkyLife Official Homepage
Investments
Based on the data of
December 31 ,2006 . [ [http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/company/sub03_5.html List of shareholders of SkyLife] (Korean), taken from their official homepage.]
* KT 24.46%
* J.P. Morgan Whitefriars 10.83%
* KBS 9.54%
* MBC 5.72%
*KTF 2.12%
* Il-jin Copperfoil Co. 1.41%
* SBS 0.95%
* Employee stock ownership of SkyLife 1.98%
* Others 42.98%References
External links
* [http://www.skylife.co.kr/ Official Homepage (Korean)]
* [http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/index.jsp Official Homepage (English)]
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