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yes
Type	Satellite television provider
Country	Israel
Availability	Throughout Israel
Slogan	Greater Than Life Cinematic Experience (free translation)
Owner	Public (49% Bezeq)
Key people	Ron Ayalon (CEO)
Launch date	July, 2000
Website	http://www.yes.co.il/ (video site) http://service.yes.co.il/ (service site)(Hebrew)

yes (formally incorporated as D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd) founded in 1998, is the sole satellite television provider (DBS) in Israel. It began broadcasting in July 2000 under the trademark yes. The largest shareholder of the provider is the Bezeq corporation holding up to 49% of its shares. The creation of Yes Satellite Television broke the cable monopoly in Israel which had lasted more than a decade and ushered in digital broadcasting technology to the country.

The early years of the company were unstable due to technical and financial difficulties. Even though the three cable companies in Israel - Matav, Tevel, and Golden Channels wanted to compete with the satellite company by slashing prices, the subscriber base grew due to the unique and new services that yes offered, as well as the lack of cable coverage in many rural areas. The threat of this national company allowed the three cable companies to merge into one company under the name HOT, a union the government monopoly regulator had prevented until then.

Nowadays, yes provides television services to more than 0.5 million customers using two Israeli satellites – Amos 1 and Amos 2. The company broadcasts more than 200 different television stations from around the world along with exclusive Israeli channels. In 2004, yes started offering its customers the first DVR (Digital video recorder) in Israel, called yesMax (similar in function to the Tivo).

In September and October 2007 satellite television channels in Israel were plagued with signal disruptions, with the north of the country particularly badly affected. Eventually the Ministry of Defense intervened, and with the help of the army and navy, discovered that the problems had been caused by the radar systems of Dutch UNIFIL ships patrolling off the coast of Lebanon.^[1]

In order to compensate its clientele for the disturbances they've experienced, yes offered their pay-per-view "DVDbox" channels for free to all its clients for 2 weeks in October (although it eventually extended beyond that). Later, in an effort to win over the many clients that still seemed to be displeased, yes offered all of its premium channels for free for a period of 3 months.^[2]

On November, 2007, yes announced that as of December 23, 2007, it will begin broadcasting in High Definition. The Broadcasting format will be Widescreen 16:9 with resolution of 1080i50. The broadcasting system will be DVB-S2 and H.264/MPEG-4. There will be also support for content in 720p. On some of the content there will also be 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. In the beginning there will be only few channels, but it will grow with time to additional channels.

Receiving the broadcastings in HD will be available only with the new decoder - ADB 7820S - which has multiple digital and analog outputs - including HDMI (1.3a) and S/PDIF - coaxial and optical.

• yes stars 123 - exclusive yes channels that air US/UK shows. One of them is in the basic tier, as (per a special agreement enforced by the Israeli government) it is really Hot's Channel 3 with some exclusive added shows. The others can be purchased À la carte or through different "mini pay" packages of other channels
• Hot (Israel) - the competing cable television provider

• Official website (Hebrew)