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Jorn Krieger Munich Turkish pay-TV operator DigiTurk has started to offer a selection of channels to viewers outside its domestic market. According to a spokesman, DigiTurk Euro will targets the...

In an aim to counteract the growing competition from the new owners of its former cable networks in the prospering market for broadband Internet access, Deutsche Telekom has signed a...

Chris Bulloch Interspace The Arianespace Enquiry Board investigating the AR.5 (Flight 142) upper stage malfunction of July 12 reported back on August 1 as promised, though its findings were not...

The once dominant terrestrial networks are losing money in the satellite networks. Recently returned from Japan, Chris Forrester asesses the market Ariane’s July 12 loss of Japan’s BSAT-2b DBS satellite...

Chris Forrester Editor Last week it emerged that Loral’s satellite manufacturing arm, Space Systems Loral, is “very close” to finalising a number of satellite contracts including an order for DirecTV...

On August 2, ENAV, Alenia Marconi Systems and Telespazio (part of the Telecom Italia group) signed an agreement with the proposed European satellite navigation system Galileo. The partners now intend...

For one week (from August 1 to August 7) the inhabitants of the French archipelagos of the Marquises, the Tuamutu-Gambier and the Austral Islands had to For one week (from...

(A = Analog, D = Digital) 78.5 degreesE: S Thaicom 2&3 D: MRTV, the Myanmar (Burma) based broadcaster, is testing a new international channel named MRTV 3 on 3675MHz horizontal,...

CNBC Europe has begun transmissions within the ZDF digital multiplex on Astra 19 degrees East. The business news channel was previously available as part of the Premiere World package in...

Chris Forrester Editor The UK multichannel broadcast scene has had a bad two weeks. Pay-per-view service U Direct, Wellbeing, a JV channel from Granada TV and Boots laid off some...