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SBS Broadcasting is taking a one third stake in Polish commercial channel TVN. According to an agreement reached last week, SBS will acquire Dutch-registered Strateurop International, a subisidiary of TVN’s...

Swiss public broadcaster SRG has cancelled its contract with neighbouring Austrian public broadcaster ORF for carriage of its German-language domestic TV channel for DTH viewers within ORF’s digital package on...

German public broadcaster ZDF has incorporated three new services within its free-to-air digital package available on Astra (19.2 degrees East), transponder 77 (11.954 GHz H, SR 27.500, FEC 3/4), and...

Three radio stations from Germany have joined the growing number of broadcasters that air their programmes via DTH satellite. Wiesbaden-based Party Radio – The Bomb can be found within Deutsche...

Hispasat has secured the first licence granted to a foreign satellite operator in Brazil. The company will serve the country via the recently launched Hispasat 1C. Hispasat also intends to...

Munich-based movie rights trading company Kinowelt Median AG intends to become a shareholder in TM3. According to industry sources, talks have been held between Kinowelt’s board and Herbert Kloiber, whose...

Via Digital has extended interactive services related to football. Subscribers can watch Champions League matches from different angles, repeats of the match and three matches at the same time on...

Turkey’s long-awaited digital platform is set to launch at the end of this month. But the collapse of the partnership between its two principal backers and the failure to secure...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degrees E:Express-6 D – The new Russian Express-6A was launched successfully in the early hours of March 12 aboard a Proton rocket...

Inmarsat Holdings Ltd. has released its first financial results since becoming a private limited company last April. The company reported total revenues for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1999...