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Key: Digital – D Analogue – A 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D During the afternoon of January 25 a live shot of the Sydney skyline at night from a fixed...

VTV4, the channel for the Vietnamese community in Europe, has started to sell subscriptions for its satellite delivered service. The channel is part of the German FSP multiplex on Telecom...

On the third attempt of last week Turksat 2A, which was previously called Eurasiasat 1, was launched into space from French Guyana and placed into orbit by an Ariane 4...

Arianespace’s CEO Jean-Marie Luton disclosed a loss in 2000 – the first time the company has made a loss in its 20-year history – of around E200 million (the exact...

A network of local TV channels covering Northern and Central Italy is planning to launch a satellite channel on the Tele+ digital platform. The Italia 7 Gold syndication was created...

Jordan is to “merge” its two terrestrial services, Jordan 1 and 2, into its satellite channel (Jordan Space Channel). The announcement was made by Jordan TV board member Dr Adnan...

Irdeto Access, a content protection company, and Canal+ Nederland, the pay-TV operator, continued their battle against pay-media piracy with a raid in The Netherlands that resulted in counterfeit smart cards...

After Inter, Milan and Roma, even Napoli FC is getting ready to launch a pay-TV channel dedicated to its football team. Milan inaugurated the series of Italian thematic football channels...

The now-traditional New Year annual press conference of the European Space Agency (ESA) was held in Paris on January 15. Director-general Antonio Rodota did his best to explain away the...

Satellite-based video and data broadcaster PanAmSat Corp reported an 11 per cent drop in fourth quarter 2000 cash flow from operations as a result of higher expansion costs. PanAmSat, an...