LiveTV is a major provider of airline in-flight entertainment systems. Originally a joint venture of Harris Corporation and BE Aerospace (BE Aerospace's interest subsequently sold to Thales), it is now a wholly owned subsidiary of JetBlue Airways Corporation. It has its headquarters inMelbourne, Florida.
Its main product is in aircraft seat-back satellite television service, XM Satellite Radio, and movie programming. The system also offers live flight trackers, for people to see where they are. Currently, its systems are installed on aircraft in operation with JetBlue, WestJet, Frontier Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines, Virgin Australia, Continental Airlines, and AirTran Airways. Depending on the region the airline operates in, different satellite television providers are utilized. In the United States service is provided by DirecTV; in Canada service is provided by Bell TV; and in Australia service is provided by Foxtel and Austar.
The company is one of the "big four" manufacturers of in-flight entertainment systems, along with Panasonic Avionics Corporation,Thales Group, and Rockwell Collins.
On June 9, 2008, JetBlue announced that it will buy Verizon's Airfone service.[1]
Continental Airlines began to add LiveTV to all of its Boeing 737 Next Generation and Boeing 757-300 aircraft beginning in January 2009.[2]
In June 2006, Live TV won a 1 MHz wide block of frequencies in the 800 MHz air-ground telephone auction conducted by the U.S.Federal Communications Commission (FCC).[3] This license will allow air-ground-air communications to take place. An affiliate ofAircell was the winner of the larger 3 MHz wide block of frequencies. Plans for utilizing these frequencies had not been announced by mid-2007.
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