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by Cynthia Boeke The recent spate of launch failures and in-orbit anomalies may have cast a shadow over much of the satellite industry, but one company has found a silver...

by Theresa Foley The coming wave of Ka-band satellite systems promises to alter the economics of the satellite business radically. Some of the new systems will have technologies that will...

by Marc Crossman About a year ago, Iridium was set to make its debut as the world’s first provider of mobile satellite telecommunications services. The mobile satellite services (MSS) sector...

Business television in the United Kingdom and Europe grew from 14 networks in 1992 to more than 80 in 1998. Here, BTV is concentrated in the automotive, financial services and...

by Peter Brown Satellites and multimedia are coming together in a very compelling fashion. The explosive demand for multimedia-based content-both in the public and private sectors-is having an impact on...

by Theresa Foley As the new century approaches, the satellite industry is facing a rebirth with the dawning of the age of the global mega-operator, a phenomenon that promises to...

by Katie McConnell With more companies merging and expanding business to various regions of the world, getting together is becoming problematic. With the economics of flying people to a central...

Nickelodeon may launch pre-school channel Noggin as a block within Nick Jr channel in the UK, managing director Karen Flischel has told Interspace. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon itself will launch in India...

Italian public broadcaster RAI has signed several deals with leading Italian media groups for the launch of new digital TV channels for Telepiu’s digital platform D+. A preliminary accord was...

Italy’s Mediaset is set to close negotiations with Germany’s Kirch Media by the end of October, with the official launch of their joint pan-European TV network, tentatively called Euroset, by...