News From Satellite TV
Dish Network effort to compete with DirecTV in high-definition expansion failed last week as AMC-14, new satellite failed to reach the orbit. Dish Network was leasing The AMC-14 satellite to use it for the expansion of its high-definition offerings. This failure will have a huge impact on its 100 national high-definition channels by the end year 2008 expansion plan.
I learnt this story of Dish satellite failure here

News From Satellite TV
After reaching carriage agreement with Verizon FiOS TV and Charter Communications last month, the Smithsonian Channel has signed a carriage deal with RCN Corp. on 11th Match. RCN Corp will distribute the high-definition version of the channel, with this agreement the channel will be available to 22.5 million homes in The U.S. Earlier the channel had a carriage deal only with the leading satellite TV provider DirecTV
An interesting story from Smithsonian Channel deal with RCN Corp