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By Robert N. Wold Their spirit continues, but many of the venerable teleports, uplinkers and switching providers, most of them less than two decades old, have been acquired and changed […]

by Armand Musey Recently, Hughes Network Systems (HNS) held a press and investor luncheon in New York to unveil DirecWay, its next generation of two-way broadband satellite services. In our […]

By Nick Mitsis The business television (BTV) arena continues to change. Technological developments throughout the last year, according to industry executives, have rerouted this niche market from traditional transmission to […]

By David Hartshorn VISA, Reuters, Peugeot, Argyle, and Weat are birds of a feather. While they hark from different European commercial arenas–credit, financial services, automotive, retail and utilities, respectively–each is […]

by Gerry Oberst In February 2001, U.K. officials formally published an action plan to help drive forward national broadband networks. Their report, entitled “U.K. Online: The Broadband Future,” recognized that […]

Interspace Correspondent A dispute between Mexico and the Netherlands and their respective satellite companies over an unoccupied slot on the geostationary arc is going to be resolved in the old […]

Julian Clover, Managing Editor Kingston inmedia, the satellite services division of Kingston Communications, contributed to the overall growth of the company with revenues climbing 33 per cent year on year. […]

Channel D has signed a long term agreement with SES-Astra that will see the commercial international television service transmit to North and South America. SES stresses that this is its […]

Chris Forrester, Editor There are increasing indicators that the broadband-by-satellite market can continue to expect solid growth. Two recent reports confirm the upward trend. Comsys, a London-based consulting group, in […]

Swiss-based encryption specialist Kudelski, best known for its Nagra scrambling system, is predicted to triple revenues over the next ten years, according to forecasts from investment bankers Merrill Lynch. The […]

Orbit, the struggling Middle East pay-TV platform has lost its exclusive use of the local Disney Channel, which has now signed a non-exclusive deal with Orbit’s arch-rival Showtime. Showtime is […]

Sotires Eleftheriou, Paris At Sky has completed its second tranche of funding by raising new share capital to the value of E2 million. This is in addition to the E2 […]

The July 19 launch of a new interactive service complementing RaiSat’s cooking channel Gambero Rosso forms part of RAI’s strategy to boost its presence in the digital TV sector. This […]

Julian Clover, Managing Editor The House of Lords has ruled that the rights of the public to watch sporting events of national importance should not be affected by whether or […]

Jorn Krieger, Munich In a move that marks the first entry of a German TV broadcaster into the world of interactive applications, RTL will next month launch an e-mail over […]

Chris Forrester, Editor Multichoice South Africa will introduce a comprehensive OpenTV-based interactive service on its digital platform next March. Viewers will be able to send and receive e-mail, shop and […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 75 degreesE: LMI 1 A: TV Malagasy from Madagascar continues to provide good […]

The Lagardere group is to launch a TV channel branded around its magazine Paris Match before the end of the year. Called Match Télé the station will launch on the […]

Telespazio, Telecom Italia’s satellite communications business unit, has announced the launch of a new multimedia platform for broadband satellite services. Evolv-e is a DVB-IP multimedia platform encompassing services including distance […]

TM3, the Munich-based commercial German TV channel, will change its name to Neun Live (translated as ‘Nine Live’) on September 1. Managing director Christiane zu Salm, says the new name […]

Chris Dziadul, Contributing Editor Although the long-awaited merger between Poland’s two digital platforms Wizja TV and Cyfra+ now looks closer than ever, it is still anything but a foregone conclusion. […]

David Del Valle, Madrid Spain’s TV market reached E4,476.6 million revenues in 2000, representing the carriage and broadcasting of TV signals around E187 million (a decrease of 4.5 per cent) […]

Chris Forrester, Editor Echostar has shown its continued confidence in broadband-by-satellite through the investment of another $50 million (E58.53m) into StarBand, the Gilat Satellite Network’s offshoot. The investment was made […]

Chris Forrester, Editor A July 3 report from Merrill Lynch talks of US pay-TV DBS stocks being undervalued “as they do not properly reflect the operating leverage of their satellite […]

A major report from Merrill Lynch’s satellite analysts issued July 3 suggests the two major uncommitted global satellite players – PanAmSat and Loral Space & Communications – make interesting investment […]

PanAmSat issued somewhat mixed second quarter results, July 12. The Connecticut-based satellite operator revised its 2001 numbers to show consolidated full-year revenues in the range of $825 to $835 million, […]

Jorn Krieger, Munich In a landmark decision, the Swiss Upper House has ruled that Swiss local broadcasters Radio Top and Radio Framboise have to encrypt their satellite signals to comply […]

Journalist Walter Issacson (49), a former managing editor of Time magazine has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the CNN News Group. The appointment comes only days after […]

As Italy celebrates the 10th anniversary of pay-TV, Tele+ is getting ready to merge with rival operator Stream, in order to create a single Italian DTH satellite platform. Branislav Pekic […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D: Despite announcing that it would be using Intelsat […]