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The success of UPC’s Polish digital platform Wizja TV meant that it was only a matter of time before the Amsterdam-based company decided to introduce similar services in other parts...

Japan’s Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications will eliminate restrictions on the amount of equity foreign investors can hold in communications satellite digital broadcasters, according to reports...

Telecoms satellite Artemis, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been chalked in for a launch on an Ariane 5 launcher “sometime between June and August 2001”. The launch...

With more than 20 Asian satellite TV channels currently broadcasting to UK audiences – with a surge in launches and activity coming over the last 12 months in particular –...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 68.5 degreesE: PAS-4 & 7 A – The Russian channel RTR was...

Arianespace has delayed the launch of Flight 140, Eutelsat’s ‘Eurobird’ craft destined for 28.5 degrees East. Eurobird is delayed until the evening of March 8 “in order to conduct some...

Italian pubcaster RAI has confirmed it is to launch its seventh thematic digital TV channel on March 1, which will be for TV series and mini-series. RaiSat Fiction will show...

“Interactivity, for example, changes the content which appears on the screen….”, thus does the UK television regulator ITC help explain what interactivity is all about. The phrase appears within the...

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has confirmed that it will launch a 24-hour teleshopping network on March 1. To target the country’s large analogue DTH market, RTL Shop will...

Content protection and management company Irdeto Access has landed two contracts in Asia – one for conditional access in Macao and the other for content protection in India. Irdeto signed...