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By Gerry Oberst In February 2001, this column described ongoing efforts by European officials to review the regulatory situation in the satellite sector. That effort was labeled the comprehensive satellite […]

By Peter J. Brown The capabilities and feature sets that can be found in today’s satellite-oriented network management systems (NMS) are remarkable. While the monitoring and control (M&C) software component […]

By Robert N. Wold In its 15 member nations, the European Union (EU) has 375 million people, some 51 percent of Europe’s total, making EU-country the world’s largest economic superpower. […]

Media merchant bank Veronis Suhler, in its 15th annual Communications Industry Forecast, said there will be a marked spending slowdown in most media industry segments this year. However, the firm […]

Chris Forrester Editor Einstein TV is suffering cash-flow problems and may close unless an influx of fresh funding can be sourced. WhereitsatTV, a music-based channel is also reportedly about to […]

Despite pulling out of the prestigious Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, UK media minister Tessa Jowell is widely expected to shortly announce approval for the BBC to go ahead and […]

CNN has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai’s ‘tax free’ Media City zone to open a news-gathering bureaux in the city, its fifth in the Mid-East. The international news […]

Compiled by Mike Fallon Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Staellite Activity D=Digital A=Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D The Anjuman Channel from Reminiscent Television has started on 3600MHz […]

Tele 24, one of the two nationwide commercial TV channels in German-speaking Switzerland, will be closed down at the end of November. This decision was made by Zurich- based publishing […]

Sotires Eleftheriou Paris TPS is to launch a number of new channels over the next few months. At a press conference signaling the end of the summer break the second […]

In an aim to counteract signal blackouts and picture disturbances during extreme weather, heavy rainfalls or thunderstorms in Munich, Premiere World has installed a second uplink site in Nuremberg. The […]

Plans by German service provider Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) to offer cable companies a bundled selection of foreign radio and TV channels for distribution to their subscribers have taken a step further. […]

Alcatel is having a busy summer. In addition to delivering the payloads for ‘Rock’ and ‘Roll’ for XM Radio, the company claims it has won a very respectable 27 per […]

The influential National Association of Broadcasters is lobbying the US Government to deny requests from satellite radio outfits XM Radio and Sirius to obtain frequencies for terrestrial retransmission of their […]

Teledesic, one of the satellite broadband ventures of cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, has announced that it has narrowed the choice of its prime satellite construction contractor to Alenia Spazio of […]

Julian Clover Managing Editor Sky Digital is doing its utmost to squeeze out the remaining analogue subscribers ahead of the closure of its three remaining analogue channels at midnight on […]

Jorn Krieger Munich Turkish pay-TV operator DigiTurk has started to offer a selection of channels to viewers outside its domestic market. According to a spokesman, DigiTurk Euro will targets the […]

In an aim to counteract the growing competition from the new owners of its former cable networks in the prospering market for broadband Internet access, Deutsche Telekom has signed a […]

Starspeeder, the Internet via satellite service operated by Luxembourg-based media company Communication and Banking Equipment Luxembourg (CBL), has run into difficulties. Both its Austrian sales partner Skysurf (http://www.skysurf.at) and its […]

The once dominant terrestrial networks are losing money in the satellite networks. Recently returned from Japan, Chris Forrester asesses the market Ariane’s July 12 loss of Japan’s BSAT-2b DBS satellite […]

Chris Forrester Editor Last week it emerged that Loral’s satellite manufacturing arm, Space Systems Loral, is “very close” to finalising a number of satellite contracts including an order for DirecTV […]

On August 2, ENAV, Alenia Marconi Systems and Telespazio (part of the Telecom Italia group) signed an agreement with the proposed European satellite navigation system Galileo. The partners now intend […]

For one week (from August 1 to August 7) the inhabitants of the French archipelagos of the Marquises, the Tuamutu-Gambier and the Austral Islands had to For one week (from […]

(A = Analog, D = Digital) 78.5 degreesE: S Thaicom 2&3 D: MRTV, the Myanmar (Burma) based broadcaster, is testing a new international channel named MRTV 3 on 3675MHz horizontal, […]

CNBC Europe has begun transmissions within the ZDF digital multiplex on Astra 19 degrees East. The business news channel was previously available as part of the Premiere World package in […]

Chris Forrester Editor The UK multichannel broadcast scene has had a bad two weeks. Pay-per-view service U Direct, Wellbeing, a JV channel from Granada TV and Boots laid off some […]

Barry Flynn Contributing Editor Service provider DC-SAT.NET became the first UK company to demonstrate the capabilities of the Astra DTH platform’s IP-based Broadband Interactive System (BBI) on August 2, ahead […]

Chris Bulloch Interspace The Arianespace Enquiry Board investigating the AR.5 (Flight 142) upper stage malfunction of July 12 reported back on August 1 as promised, though its findings were not […]

By Theresa Foley The heady days when satellite operators raved about the explosive demand growth that had no end in sight are over. Two more satellite-related companies collapsed in the […]

By Peter J. Brown The idea behind the creation of content delivery networks (CDNs) is that as more and more rich media arrives on the scene, the Internet cannot cope […]