Author: Staff Writer

A new Catholic cultural channel from Austria has started test transmissions on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 5 satellite at 13 degrees East. The channel, called K-TV, is using the German digital...

by Katie McConnell Michael Young, Hongkong Telecom’s marketing manager, says, "The digitization of television channels has created enormous growth in the total number of satellite channels available. Multiple channel per...

by Marc Crossman Iridium’s inability to add meaningful subscribers to its network has left the company floundering in its ability to meet debt obligations. Despite the fact that three credit...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. After reading ITU documents for years, it was a pleasure to find in a recent paper the first candid assessment of how confusing the coordination...

by Katie McConnell International relationships in the satellite community are not at their best. The U.S. decision to transfer the exporting of satellite licenses from the Commerce Department to the...

Bollywood For You (B4U) is a new 24-hour digital premium channel launching on August 26 for Asian viewers on Astra 2A. The channel will charge Pounds 9.99 as a stand-alone...

Astrolink, the Lockheed Martin/ Telespazio/TRW-backed broadband satellite project, has closed a $900 million equity investment, initially announced in May. Astrolink secured the investment following regulatory approval for the project on...

Russia’s Media Most broadcasting group has strongly refuted reports that it is in severe financial trouble. Media Most which owns, among other things, the NTV satellite channels and the Segodnya...

78.5 degrees E: Thaicom-2&3 D. As mentioned in Transponder Monitor 14 July, Thaicom has signed a carriage deal with Turkey’s TRT to feed TRT International and the radio service, Voice...

Studio Universal, the pay-TV movie channel operated by Universal Studios Networks Germany, will most probably be able to launch, as planned, on 1 September. Following the directors of the 15...