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SHOWTIME PREPARES TO EXPAND

Middle-Eastern platform Showtime, aiming to hit up to 200,000 subscribers by the end of the year, is now looking to expand, Showtime’s president Peter Einstein talked to Interspace about his...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

80 degreesE: Express-6 Intersputnik is to launch two new Express craft this year. Express-6A will lift off in early March and will be located at 80 degrees East and is...

MBC DENIES SALE RUMOURS

Staff at Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) have raised concerns that the Arabic-language station is to be sold. The rumours follow on from the recent decision by ARA Programming &...

NUVOLARI TAKES TO THE AIR

On February 14, Rome-based Sitcom SpA launched its latest thematic satellite offering – a channel dedicated to motorsport fans. Although Nuvolari will initially transmit 18 hours a day only in...

NEWS BYTES

Ariane flight 127, Japan’s Superbird-4 craft, was successfully launched last Thursday, February 17. The Ariane 44LP rocket, equipped with two liquid and two solid strap-on boosters, blasted off at 2204...

MURDOCH PONDERS SATELLITE SPINOFF

Rupert Murdoch is considering a spin-off of the global satellite operations of his News Corp. Ltd. [NWS] empire. The media mogul is in the process of reorganizing the News Corp....

PANAMSAT GRANTED DIRECT ACCESS TO PERU

Peru’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications has granted the company a carrier license, enabling <ST>PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT]<E> to provide satellite-based Internet and telecommunications services directly to the Peruvian market. The...