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The Jordanian government has started fleshing out its plans to establish a free media zone in the Kingdom, officials said on May 4. Minister of Culture and Information Salih Qallab...

Multichoice has confirmed it will start a digital service to sub-Saharan Africa using Eutelsat (Interspace 692). The service will launch late June 2000, following the deployment and testing of the...

Cambridge Industries, the Berkshire-based LNB manufacturer has been sold to the American owned dish manufacturer Channel Master for $35 million. The deal was put together by the 3i Technology Group,...

NO NAME yet for the UK’s very own answer to AOL-Time Warner – the merged Telewest-Flextech. However, ever-reticent CEO Adam Singer has revealed that in his view the worst suggestion...

TV2, Norway’s leading commercial operation, and so far the only private station with a national terrestrial licence, is about too part with its 16 per cent ownership of Canal Digital...

LEADING French commercial TV network TF1 is seriously considering the possibility of buying a stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream. TF1’s interest in Stream was confirmed on May 3 by...

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later...

COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support...

SPANISH digital satellite platform Via Digital, in partnership with Telefonica’s Internet portal Terra Networks, is carrying out tests with a view to launching a high-speed Internet access service through the...

NEW launch TV4 is reaching 61 per cent of Polish television households since its launch on April 1. TV4, which has acquired the satellite and terrestrial feeds from Nasza TV...