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by Stephane Chenard Well, here it is: the year 2000. It looks like personal helicopters are missing from the picture (but then, so are those unpleasant food pills and seceding...

by Robustiano Fernandez With the beginning of a new millennium, much attention will be given towards taking stock of past achievements and setting new goals for the future. The commercial...

By Theresa Foley Via Satellite’s annual crystal-ball gazing exercise, involving some of the top CEOs in the satellite industry, finds few surprises in store for the year ahead: too many...

by Cynthia Boeke In many respects, 1999 was a roller-coaster year in satellite history. It will be remembered as the year when two high-profile mobile satellite ventures declared bankruptcy, U.S....

Pan-European sports channel Eurosport is to be made available within the digital free-to-air package of German public broadcaster ZDF. According to a statement, a contract was signed last week by...

As expected, BSkyB last week secured its interest in Leo Kirch’s Premiere World pay-TV platform in Germany, taking a 24 per cent stake in KirchPayTV GmbH. The deal is subject...

The planned Inmarsat fourth-generation satellite system, for broadband traffic at up to 431Kbit/s, has been the subject of Requests for Proposals (for manufacturing) issued earlier this month. Inmarsat says that...

Italian TV and film conglomerate Cecchi Gori Group (CGG) has rejected a plan to sell off a majority interest in its ailing TMC TV unit and also decided to put...

Leading Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu has released the latest subscriber figures for its analogue and digital services. According to company president and CEO Michel Thoulouze, Telepiu has 500,000 analogue and...

Swiss publishing house Ringier can take a stake in Sat 1 Schweiz AG, the company which has been producing a window for Swiss cable viewers as part of the German-based...