ZDF IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
German public broadcaster ZDF will partner ARD and Deutsche Welle (DW) in a relaunched worldwide German television channel. ZDF’s board gave the green light to its participation at its meeting...
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TELEFONICA TO SPIN OFF MEDIA
Telefonica has formed new company to look after its media interests. Jose Antonio Rios, president and CEO of Telefonica Media, a new company formed just one week ago, announced in...
PREMIERE WORLD LAUNCHES
Supported by a tremendous marketing campaign costing DM100 million (pounds 33 million), German media company Kirch Group launched its digital package Premiere World on October 1 in Germany and Austria,...
BALL'S CHANGES
Tony Ball, BSkyB’s new CEO, barely three months into the job, has said that he is making "significant changes" into each of BSkyB’s operating divisions. "There is now one marketing...
SATELLITE ON UP IN FRANCE
Eutelsat has published the results of a study of French satellite homes carried out on its behalf by Credome. At the end of June 1999 it found a total of...
ITALY, POLAND HIT CANAL
Canal Plus reported its half-year results on September 22. Chairman Pierre Lescure said the full year results would show an improvement in the aggregate contribution from overseas earnings, but that...
BSKYB OUTSPENDS ON ADS
BSkyB spent almost pounds 50 million on above the line advertising in the year May 1998-April 1999, according to data from MMS/Mediapolis, massively outspending rivals ONdigital whose expenditure came in...
PACE CONSUMERS WARM TO HOME SHOPPING
The UK’s Pace Micro Technology has released some findings from its latest survey into the attitudes of consumers to digital television, The Pace Report 2000. The results gave some comfort...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
Key: A = Analog D= Digital 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. The Asian version of Sony Entertainment Television is occasionally testing on 3925 MHz horizontal in clear Pal....
DIRECT TO AIR
DirecTV has announced DirecTV Airborne, an entertainment service for commercial airlines, to make its in-flight debut this autumn. Three airlines, Alaska Airlines, Legend Airlines and JetBlue Airways will carry the...