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Italian-based BluSat is the latest company to offer satellite-based broadband services aimed mainly at a business clientele. Already active in Italy and Spain – with plans to expand to Central […]

by Chris Forrester Despite continuing DARS problems in the US, Alcatel and Worldspace have both confirmed their Euro-DAB project will continue with a provisional launch date of late 2004. The […]

Armand Musey XM Radio re-ceivers became available in Dallas and Phoenix in September, the service is rolling out in the southwest in October, and should be available throughout the entire […]

The French food channel Gourmet TV, whose backers include an unnamed Anglo-American company with interests in New York, has delayed its launch by four to six weeks due to the […]

By Chris Forrester British Telecom’s (BT’s) Broadcast Services division say that while they remain confident about filling capacity on new satellites planned for launch, heavily discounted tariffs by some operators […]

US-based media company AOL Time Warner is to become a shareholder in Viva 2, the soon-to-be revamped sister service of German music channel Viva. According to a statement issued last […]

National Geographic Channel has just launched on the French Canal Satellite Numérique, following the signature with Canal Satellite in July. This brings the doc channel to a total of 134 […]

One of the repercussions of the Vivendi-Universal merger is that it is getting increasingly difficult to get detailed information on the activity of subsidiaries. Interspace did manage to glean one […]

Kids Gate, the children’s channel planned by Jochen Krohne, the former managing director of Munich-based commercial television channel TM3, has overcome its last regulatory hurdle. The federal anti media concentration […]

A wave of digital concentration is taking place in the international DTH market. Spain may be the next on the list, writes David Del Valle “United we stand”. This seems […]

Demand for news prompts capacity scramble Mike Fallon Interspace Monitoring The tragic events of September 11 brought about the biggest ever satellite event when just about every TV broadcaster desperately […]

Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D: Erotic channel Satisfaction Channel TV has […]

The tragic attack on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon became more personal for Boeing employees when it was confirmed that three of their colleagues, all with Boeing’s […]

Even though Amos 2 is not expected to be launched until the winter of 2002-3, planning and outline development is taking place on a proposed Amos 3, according to sources […]

Despite the slow progress in determining its new owners, DirecTV showed no reluctance to put a brake on its own progress, and last week ordered a new craft from Space […]

More than 75,000 households are receiving ORF’s two domestic television channels through the Austrian public broadcaster’s digital package on Astra (19.2 degrees East). According to a statement, the Vienna-based broadcaster, […]

Dubai-based pay-TV platform Showtime will launch an interactive service later this month and a N-VOD PPV service a couple of months later. Showtime, which uses Irdeto conditional access, has also […]

Chris Forrester Paris This year’s PBI/Satel Conseil forum generated one over-riding question, seeming to ask ‘which of the key platform speakers’ companies will still be around a year from now?’ […]

Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract to build three satellites for GE American Communications, now in the final stages of being acquired by SES Astra. The new satellites will […]

Freed from its parent Intelsat, New Skies CEO Bob Ross tells Chris Forrester that he has an eye on acquisition New Skies Satellite has come a long way since its […]

10,000 transponders in use by 2003 -Euroconsult guardedly optimistic Chris Bulloch Paris The Paris-based space consultancy Euroconsult kicked off its two-day conference on Financing for Satellite Communications and Broadcasting (August […]

Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D PTV World, PTV3 and PTV News […]

Discussions between News Corp and General Motors over the Hughes-owned DirecTV remained “difficult and inconclusive,” according to News Corp’s annual report issued last Friday. The report also showed that Rupert […]

By Theresa Foley What is the world’s most valuable orbital slot? DirecTV’s 101 degrees W appears to be at the top of the list, bringing in more than $4 billion […]

Echostar recently announced it will invest $50 million to increase its interest in Starband to 32 percent. Starband is a Ku-band two-way high-speed Internet access service that is targeting the […]

By Scott Chase What goes up, must come down. In most cases, that old saying rings true. For a dozen aeronautical engineering students from Purdue University working on new ways […]

By Robert Nelson Most communications satellites operate from the geostationary orbit, since from this orbit a satellite appears to hover over one point on the equator. An earth station antenna […]

By James Careless Distance learning via satellite: these days, it’s everywhere. In fact, as the following case studies show, distance learning via satellite is being widely embraced by all sectors […]

By David Hartshorn Here is a wager for you: stop a satellite industry sales executive in the hallway and ask him or her to rank regions in terms of potential […]

By Cynthia Boeke Despite the early hour–it is a little after 5:00 a.m.–I am wide-awake, searching the desert for traces of its illustrious history. It is from this seemingly endless […]