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Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – It appears the Thailand’s Travel TV has left 3572 MHz horizontal, SR 6310, FEC 1/2 where it...

XM Satellite Radio increased its subscriber base in the first quarter of 2002 by 175 percent. It announced April 23 that it had added almost 50,000 new subscribers in the...

German commercial TV channel RTL II intends to launch a sister service in 2004 that shows Japanese cartoons 24 hours a day. According to RTL II’s managing director Josef Andorfer,...

by David Hartshorn There are a lot of resumés in the mail these days. They appear cheek-to-jowl in mail slots among press releases that are littered with euphemisms like “rationalizing...

by Gerry Oberst Earlier this year, the major satellite companies in Europe issued a position paper on regulatory issues facing the industry. This “satellite principles 2002” was an outgrowth of...

Or, Is That What That Dish-Shaped Thing Actually Does? By James Careless Admit it: most people can’t explain how a satellite earth station works in plain English, including many technicians...

To hell and back: when it comes to satellite news gathering (SNG) in Afghanistan, that phrase is an understatement. Yet the life-and-death risks run by SNG crews rarely make the...

by Armand Musey The growth of satellite industry is being increasingly driven by the proliferation of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite services. Currently millions of people watch some form of DTH service...

The enormous radome at Andover, ME, is gone. It was erected and operated by Bell Labs and AT&T Long Lines in the early 1960s as part of the Telstar project....

Eutelsat has increased its stake in Hispasat to 27.69 percent from 21.15 percent. Eutelsat initially signed an agreement with Hispasat last August to take a 21.15 percent stake. The increased...