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Italian digital operator Stream is set to boost its pay-TV bouquet with the addition of several new channels in the coming months. Two new football channels aimed at fans of...

Germany’s satellite market will see three new entrants if the Frankfurt-based regional media authority approves new licence applications. Dogan Media International, the German sister company of the Turkish Dogan group,...

Kirch Group’s digital pay-TV operator Premiere World and MTV Networks Europe have reached a compromise, ending the conflict over the removal of MTV and VH-1 from the digital platform after...

While Orbit struggles to drive subscriber numbers, new players such as Etisalat are preparing to enter the Middle Eastern multichannel broadcasting business. Interspace surveys current developments… On top of the...

Key: D=Digital, A=Analog 78.5 degrees E: Thaicom-2&3 D. Two Pakistani channels, PTV World and PTV Sports have launched on 3420 MHz vertical, SR 6666, FEC 3/4 in free-to-air MPEG-2. As...

by Theresa Foley As the new century approaches, the satellite industry is facing a rebirth with the dawning of the age of the global mega-operator, a phenomenon that promises to...

by Katie McConnell With more companies merging and expanding business to various regions of the world, getting together is becoming problematic. With the economics of flying people to a central...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Earlier this year, the FCC published a guide to the regulatory principles the agency has dealt with over the years. Connecting the Globe: A Regulator’s...

by Cynthia Boeke The recent spate of launch failures and in-orbit anomalies may have cast a shadow over much of the satellite industry, but one company has found a silver...

by Theresa Foley The coming wave of Ka-band satellite systems promises to alter the economics of the satellite business radically. Some of the new systems will have technologies that will...