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The mobiles satellite services (MSS) sector of the satellite industry posted some gains and losses at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC 2000). Tallies in the victory column included gains in...

Canal+ has officially confirmed its interest in a merger of Poland’s two leading digital satellite platforms Cyfra+ and Wizja TV. Although there have been suggestions of a meeting of minds...

The foreign services platform Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) which wants to provide independent German cable operators with international radio and television channels from September, will use capacity on Eutelsat’s new ‘Hot Bird’...

German adult-oriented music channel Onyx TV is to launch its digital package this summer. In addition, the main channel currently only available in digital on Hot Bird (13 degress East)...

The operators of medium and large cable networks can provide their customers with high speed Internet access through the soon to be launched SatXpress. The Cologne-based company vsatnet.com is offering...

Jean-Marie Messier, the chairman of French utility and communications giant Vivendi, has requested that Italian pay-TV platform Stream should be excluded from Rupert Murdoch’s planned global satellite holding Platco. The...

Gene Curcio, a California-based telecommunications entrepreneur who is leading the $50 million (52.47) bid of Venture Partners. to acquire the assets of the failed Iridium LLC satellite constellation, said he...

Zee TV will launch a bouquet of 15 television channels in C-Band later in June, Zee Telefilms chairman Subash Chandra said last Tuesday (June 6). The 15 channels would include...

German music channel Viva is planning a major expansion into new business areas. The ambitious plans include a broadband Internet and e-commerce platform for young people, TV- over-the-Internet services and...

Italian publisher L’Espresso, industrial group De Benedetti and rock star Vasco Rossi are contemplating the launch of new thematic digital TV channels for the Italian TV market. The administrative council...