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About DBS

     

Direct Broadcast Services, Inc. provides broadcast-quality transmission services using a variety of technologies including satellite uplinking, portable and newsvan microwave, portable fiber optics, and laser.

DBS provides both "occasional" services for single event coverage and full-time dedicated services for broadcasters.  DBS is also a consultant for start-up news operations, provides ENG services, is a service facility for broadcasters' and vendors' trucks and vans, and is a provider of specialized management services for broadcasters.

While DBS's primary focus is breaking news coverage, it has extensive experience transmitting special events; sporting events; and corporate, medical, and educational video requiring full broadcast quality. 

 

The use of multiple technologies combined with our extensive experience in the New York market provides clients with a degree of flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness not generally available elsewhere.

Prior to founding DBS in 1988, Leo Rosenberg had 24 years experience servicing both the motion picture and television  industries.  Television support included supporting news film operations, documentaries, and major 

  

 

 

sports and political event coverage.  In 1975 while Senior VP at the Camera Mart, he oversaw the inception of the video equipment rental industry starting with two-piece cameras and separate recorders.  
   In 2000 he was named the ENG Frequency    Coordinator for the New York Metropolitan Area Frequency Coordinating Committee, overseeing microwave channel utilization for broadcasters and service providers.

As part of its continuing growth, DBS recently moved into larger quarters in Valley Cottage, NY near the New York State Thruway just west of the Tappan Zee Bridge.  Its 7,500 square foot 

facility now includes a garage that is 120 feet long and capable of holding ten trucks.

In 1992 DBS entered into full-time, dedicated agreements with Time Warner's NY1 News (newsvan operations) and NHK, the Japanese public network (management services and staffing).  In 1994, CNBC contracted DBS for dedicated services (newsvan operations and supplemental uplinking).  In 1998 DBS entered into a joint venture forming Ensat Broadcast Services in Canada and oversaw operations of four satellite trucks and one microwave van in four cities.  In 2000 CNN placed its northeast uplink truck at DBS.  DBS is also a "preferred vendor" with a number of other broadcasters.

Today, DBS's fleet of trucks includes three satellite uplink trucks with both digital and analog capabilities (two of which are also microwave-capable), three microwave newsvans, and an extensive inventory of portable microwave, portable fiber optics and laser equipment to support virtually any application. Its staff works out of four locations in the New York area.  With the two NY1 vans and the CNBC van, DBS operates nine vehicles, servicing the most demanding, news-intensive market in the world every single day and brings the greatest available experience and expertise to most any project.