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Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television Co Ltd launched its first North American information technology channel for Chinese communities in the region. The Phoenix IT channel, the first of the Chinese...

German television channel ARD has chosen Eutelsat to reach television viewers in southeast Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ARD Das Erste will broadcast in digital free-to-air via Widebeam...

Pace Micro Technology will launch its XTV integrated sat-box plus hard drive unit this quarter, according to CEO Malcolm Miller. He confirmed the highly specified box will not receive a...

Cologne-based Deutsche Welle (DW) will launch a new European bouquet on AsiaSat 2 on January 22. Dr Burkhard Nowotny, DW’s director of international distribution, said deals with four TV stations...

France Telecom-owned satellite service provider Globecast says it will beam a new digital multiplex of channels to the UK from Eurobird, “and we may be taking extra capacity,” says CEO...

Italian national broadcaster Retemia is set to change its name to Hot Italia and be majority owned by a German company. Retemia was founded at the beginning of the 1980s...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: A – Analogue D – Digital 75°E: LMI-1 A Israel’s IBA Channel 2 has launched on 12638MHz horizontal...

The satellite launch of E4 is turning into an episode of Perry Mason. While test transmissions continue ahead of its January 18 launch we’re still waiting for Paul Drake to...

By Clayton Mowry My son Nathaniel is only one-and-a-half years old but he’s already learned the concept of sharing. When his pal Lucy comes by to play, he knows he...

By Gerry Oberst This column has focused frequently on the backlog in registering satellites in the International Telecommunication Union master registry of orbital positions. Last April, we wrote about “Paper...