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Despite pulling out of the prestigious Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, UK media minister Tessa Jowell is widely expected to shortly announce approval for the BBC to go ahead and...

CNN has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai’s ‘tax free’ Media City zone to open a news-gathering bureaux in the city, its fifth in the Mid-East. The international news...

Compiled by Mike Fallon Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Staellite Activity D=Digital A=Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D The Anjuman Channel from Reminiscent Television has started on 3600MHz...

Tele 24, one of the two nationwide commercial TV channels in German-speaking Switzerland, will be closed down at the end of November. This decision was made by Zurich- based publishing...

Chris Forrester Editor The UK multichannel broadcast scene has had a bad two weeks. Pay-per-view service U Direct, Wellbeing, a JV channel from Granada TV and Boots laid off some...

Barry Flynn Contributing Editor Service provider DC-SAT.NET became the first UK company to demonstrate the capabilities of the Astra DTH platform’s IP-based Broadband Interactive System (BBI) on August 2, ahead...

Chris Bulloch Interspace The Arianespace Enquiry Board investigating the AR.5 (Flight 142) upper stage malfunction of July 12 reported back on August 1 as promised, though its findings were not...

The once dominant terrestrial networks are losing money in the satellite networks. Recently returned from Japan, Chris Forrester asesses the market Ariane’s July 12 loss of Japan’s BSAT-2b DBS satellite...

Chris Forrester Editor Last week it emerged that Loral’s satellite manufacturing arm, Space Systems Loral, is “very close” to finalising a number of satellite contracts including an order for DirecTV...

On August 2, ENAV, Alenia Marconi Systems and Telespazio (part of the Telecom Italia group) signed an agreement with the proposed European satellite navigation system Galileo. The partners now intend...