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German general interest channel RTL Television can launch its planned digital thematic channels. The federal anti-concentration commission, the KEK, at its latest meeting gave the green light to the licence...

Hamburg-based record company Edel Music intends to take over 16 per cent in German music channel Viva. According to chairman Michael Haentjes, Edel considers its investment in the Cologne-based channel...

Two regional TV channels from North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s largest state, will launch on satellite next year. Media authority LfR last week granted satellite licences to NRW 1, Privat TV and...

Kids Europe Announces IPO Fox Kids Europe announced its Initial Public Offering the week before last. The offering is expected to close before Christmas. According to preliminary information, Fox Kids’...

Hackers have apparently managed to crack the encryption systems of most Europe’s major pay-TV operators, according to a report in weekly German news magazine Focus. The magazine said in a...

TPS has introduced a second decoder option, called Option Confort, to enable different members of the same household to watch different programmes on the TPS bouquet or to record one...

Investment analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter say they expect BSkyB to achieve total digital sales of 2.4 million by the end of December. BSkyB’s net additions in the last...

Norway’s Canal Digital is launching yet another service in its four Nordic territories of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The newcomer, which will launch on November 8, is Cinecinemas, managed...

As reported in the last issue of Interspace, The Money Channel has secured a long-term carriage contract on Sky Digital, with a launch date fixed for February 7. Money will...

The long-awaited addition of radio services to the Sky Digital platform will take place around November 15 when 20 stations are added. The BBC will add 12 services, enabling listeners...