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BSkyB moved quickly to settle a potentially damaging row over its proposed coverage of this year’s Ryder Cup golf tournament last week. The pay-TV operator had intended to put its...

Eutelsat is planning to use the development of more effective compression techniques to stimulate a new market in ultra-niche broadcasting. Director general Giuliano Berretta talked to Interspace about his expectations...

With the addition of four new channels, Middle East broadcaster Showtime is stepping up the pace in its attempts to break into new territories. On the eve of the platform’s...

Key: D=Digital A=Analog 76.5 degrees E: Apstar-2R D. Tibet TV, which uses two streams at 12376 MHz vertical to relay the two domestic TV channels, has undergone some changes effective...

Slovakian channels Luna TV and NASA TV will be added to Telenor Satellite’s Central and Eastern European broadcasting platform. Both will join Telenor’s Intelsat 707 platform later this year. Norway-based...

The long-awaited acquisition of General Instrument (GI) was concluded last week when Motorola absorbed the box-making company in a stock swap that sees GI shareholders take a 17 per cent...

One of a pair of Yamal-100 telecommunications satellites launched from Kazakhstan on September 7 has failed to make contact with the ground, according to its project engineers. The craft were...

Lockheed Martin can proceed with its planned 49 per cent acquisition of satellite communications company Comsat, the Federal Communications Commission confirmed last week. The US Justice Department has now also...

Jerry Glover, managing director of National Geographic Channel Europe, has left the company to become commercial director at Yahoo! Europe. He is replaced by veteran channel specialist John O’Loan, who...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Satellite broadband service was the flavor of the month this summer in London. Two separate conferences, organized by IBC and IIR, explored this topic in...