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Wide differences have emerged in the take-up of digital television between different social segments, according to the University of Leeds’s Centre for Future Communications. Research director Michael Svennevig told a...

Kirch Group has arranged credit facilities amounting to DM3 billion (Euro1.5 billion) for financing its digital pay-TV venture Premiere World. According to a statement issued by Kirch Pay-TV last week,...

United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) may seek a merger between its Polish cable and DTH platform @Entertainment and rival Canal Plus Polska, according to UPC president Mark Schneider. "The future for...

Middle East broadcaster ART may abandon the pay-TV business… Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has confirmed to Interspace that it may quit pay-TV. While no decision has...

Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. Sima-yeh Moghavemat, the Iranian opposition TV channel that is licensed by the ITC in the UK,...

Globalstar successfully launched an additional four LEO satellites on November 22 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, bringing the total number of Globalstar satellites now in space to 48 and...

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for...

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new...

Iran is to set up a space organisation with either Chinese or Indian help, according the deputy post, telegraph and telephone minister, Mehdi Tabeshian, speaking at the second international conference...

by Stephane Chenard One of the most exciting trends in satellite broadcasting is the use of digital technology to distribute niche programming to television viewers around the world. Thanks to...