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Tunisia’s radio and television transmission authority has announced plans to set up four digital channels in and around the cities of Tunis, Bizerta and Nabeul by the end of this...

Among NASA’s $767 million (E906 million) first-round Space Launch Initiative awards announced at last month’s Euroconsult Space Transportation Summit meeting was a grant of $135 million to Kistler Aerospace. This...

Investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) published a report on May 21 examining a portfolio of operators including BSkyB, Sogecable,UPC, NTL and Telewest. In it they suggested that Europe’s...

As the votes are counted in the British election on June 7, DTT viewers will be able to plug into the BBC’s election database as part of an enhanced television...

“Viva is Germany’s No 1 music TV channel” according to a May 22 report from bankers Merrill Lynch, “and the company intends using its strong brand and experience to expand...

QVC has resolved technical difficulties that have prevented the home shopping service from offering an impulse buy facility on its Sky Digital feed. In the past few days QVC has...

In a move that would end the somehow absurd situation of transmitting free-to-air to analogue DTH viewers but not to digital homes, MTV 2 – The Pop Channel, MTV’s sister...

TV Travel Shop Germany launched on June 1 15.30 CET to a broad analogue DTH community in German-speaking Europe equivalent to more than 13 million homes. The channel, which transmits...

The first fruits of Pace Micro Technology’s acquisition of French manufacturer Xcom were revealed at Mediacast in London last month, and the much-heralded ‘basic’ receiver turned out to be anything...

Does the French space agency CNES aim to supplant the ESA in developing new communications satellite technologies? Earlier this year, CNES evolved a plan (TCS-21, Technology for Communications by Satellite)...