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Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D Russia’s Radio Yunost (Youth Channel) has launched on 3530 MHz LHCP via APID 257 in clear MPEG-2. 83...

Hughes Networks Systems (HNS) has unveiled a new digital satellite recorder for U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The recorder, which will retail for $200, has dual tuners, enabling customers to record...

BT Openworld is stepping up its effort at selling broadband satellite services. In a recently commissioned survey of 190 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), BT Openworld revealed that two-thirds of...

Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has announced that CEO Ynon Kreiz will leave FKE in November this year. Kriez has been CEO of FKE for over five years. During his time...

NDS and Kudelski could be in a two-way fight for Canal+ Technologies, the conditional access (CA) vendor put up for sale by Vivendi Universal. NDS CFO Rick Medlock denied any...

LAS VEGAS–A major thrust for satellite radio is to convince consumers that commercial-free music channels are worth a monthly subscription fee and equipment costs. XM Satellite Radio offers most of...

New Skies Satellites expects to clear any debt it picks up through its satellite rollout programme by the end of 2004. The operator, which has recently launched its NSS-7 satellite,...

BSkyB’s latest results only serve to reinforce its role as the standard bearer for pay-TV operators in Europe. Its six million subscribers as of June 30 were ahead of most...

PanAmSat has launched a video-on-demand (VOD) and a digital store & forward (DSF) service that aims to reduce the costs involved in distributing video content. The two new services upgrade...

Canal Satelite Digital (CSD), the satellite pay-TV satellite platform of Spain’s Sogecable, gained less than 80,000 subscribers during the fiscal year ended June 2002. The poor performance of Canal Satelite...