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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...

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,...

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...

Gerry Oberst In late July, the U.K. government released a substantial report, two years in the making, to evaluate its funding for civil space activities. Although the United Kingdom has...

Theresa Foley With first generation Ka-band satellite systems still on the ground and far from being a sure thing, the action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in August to...

Theresa Foley A year ago, the excitement about streaming–a new Internet-based business that promised to eat up lots of satellite and terrestrial capacity and provide the basis for dozens of...

Armand Musey XM Radio re-ceivers became available in Dallas and Phoenix in September, the service is rolling out in the southwest in October, and should be available throughout the entire...

Peter J. Brown Hybrid wireless/satellite (HWS) networks can be deployed anywhere. Using an antenna on a tower or a building to create a secondary terrestrial wireless footprint within a satellite...

Nick Mitsis Don’t believe for a minute they are merely capacity brokers, and whatever you do, be sure to refuse the notion that global satellite operators are past their prime,...

James Careless Some months ago, (December 2000, p. 38-48), Via Satellite profiled the unsung heroes of Satellite News Gathering (SNG). Specifically, we focused on the SNG uplink operators who get...