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Discovery Networks Europe has secured a five-year deal for direct-to-home (DTH) digital distribution in Poland with Nowa Cyfra Plus, the pay-TV broadcaster that resulted from the merger of Cyfra Plus...

No broadcaster needs reminding about how tough it was in 2001. Ad bookings were already under considerable pressure prior to Sept. 11. Then, on that awful day, the bottom just...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C D – A mass exodus of channels has occurred here as most of the activity transfers to the new...

Burma’s Myawady Television began using Indonesia’s Palapa C2 satellite March 1, a change which will save the company about $400,000 a year, according to the broadcaster. The channel has been...

By Theresa Foley The ranks of bankers and finance professionals involved in the satellite industry have multiplied in the last few years to match the need for investment to build...

By Jimmy Schaeffler Say what you will about competition, it works. Clearly, there can be no better example of competition at work than the growth of the Direct Broadcast Satellite...

By Gerry Oberst The satellite sector seems to rely on a vast library of arcane terms and acronyms that complicate the entire area and freeze out newcomers. Little-known groups at...

By James Careless “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.” In modern English, what this old cliché means is that something good usually comes out of every tragedy. In...

An Interview With Romain Bausch By Cynthia Boeke For many years, Intelsat, and more recently Panamsat, has enjoyed top billing as the”world’s largest satellite operator.” Last year, however, another company...

By Nick Mitsis The global satellite manufacturing marketplace continues to be a highly competitive business. Thinner margins and shorter production cycles are often cited as the cause of a recent...