MURDOCH STILL "OPTIMISTIC" OVER MISSION CRITICAL DIRECTV BID
by Chris Forrester With News Corp. suffering a share price slide of around 40 per cent in the last two months, it seems Rupert Murdoch’s aim of adding DirecTV to...
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EUROSPORT WILL SEEK US CARRIAGE
Chris Forrester Editor Eurosport is planning to export its sports, sports news and dot.com trio of services to American, Asian and Far Eastern broadcast markets. According to Vincent Cheupin the...
VIVA ZWEI TO BE REVAMPED INTO VIVA+
The uncertainty surrounding the future of VIVA ZWEI, the ailing sister service of the German music channel VIVA, has been ended by the news that the Cologne-based broadcaster will revamp...
BLUSAT OFFERS SATELLITE BROADBAND SERVICES
Italian-based BluSat is the latest company to offer satellite-based broadband services aimed mainly at a business clientele. Already active in Italy and Spain – with plans to expand to Central...
U.S. DARS ON KNIFE-EDGE AS ALCATEL/WORLDSPACE EURO-DAB PROJECT TO GO AHEAD
by Chris Forrester Despite continuing DARS problems in the US, Alcatel and Worldspace have both confirmed their Euro-DAB project will continue with a provisional launch date of late 2004. The...
GOURMET TV DELAYS LAUNCH
The French food channel Gourmet TV, whose backers include an unnamed Anglo-American company with interests in New York, has delayed its launch by four to six weeks due to the...
BT STATE LOW-PRICE COMMODITY TRAFFIC "IS A CHALLENGE"
By Chris Forrester British Telecom’s (BT’s) Broadcast Services division say that while they remain confident about filling capacity on new satellites planned for launch, heavily discounted tariffs by some operators...
NICHE CHANNEL ARTSWORLD PRAGMATIC OVER OUTLOOK
By Toby Marshall The current shakeout among smaller UK digital TV channels, coupled with Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s decision to allow the BBC to go ahead with its plans to...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 75 degreesE: LMI 1 D: Moscow’s TV6 has launched on 12610 MHz vertical,...
NEWS BYTES
More redundancies are taking place at CNBC Europe’s London headquarters, with some 10 staff believed to be immediately affected. The service has also suspended its hourly supply of Scandinavian business...