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The BBC has secured a third transponder (#38) from Astra at 28.2 degrees East. The contract, which is for five years, will allow the broadcaster to introduce its multiple screen […]

Eurosport News, the sister service of pan-European sports network Eurosport covering sports news, has become available to German households for the first time, albeit through an unconventional way of transmission. […]

BSkyB has taken full control of its t-commerce arm Open by buying out minority partner British Telecom’s 19.9 per cent stake for a maximum GBP387 million (E626.9) in an all-paper […]

The BBC and UK cableco NTL are set to launch a new sports channel named British Sport. The service, which will be created by NTL subsidiary Premium Television and backed […]

Despite the downturn in the so-called dot.com ‘boom’, the past four years has seen internet traffic using satellite grow by an average of 56 per cent a year, says a […]

Advent International has invested $12million in the London-based multichannel operator Zone Vision. The money will be used to boost the company’s expansion, especially of its Romantica, Reality TV and adult […]

A=Analog D=Digital 68.5 degreesE: PAS 4 & 7 D The replacement for PAS 4, PAS 10, was successfully launched from Baikonur on May 15 at 01:11 aboard a Proton rocket. […]

Italian police made 364 raids on as many Rome commercial venues during a recent Juventus-Roma soccer match and subsequently levelled charges against 143 owners of bars and restaurants for using […]

Ericsson is suing LEO platform GlobalStar for $31 million in damages for failing to buy enough handsets. According to a Globalstar SEC filing, Ericsson claims Globalstar failed to honour two […]

Swiss encryption specialists Nagra Kudelski has bought Lysis Int. for SF110 million (E62.8). Lysis provides content owners and broadcasters with software designed to create and operate value-added content including VOD […]

Discovery Channel claims it has now topped 15 million subscribers in Latin America and the Iberian peninsular. In a separate development, GlobeCast has won a contract to distribute Trinity Broadcast […]

Alcatel is set to buy Thales’ 48.8 per cent share in its Alcatel Space joint venture. Under the terms of the deal, which is subject to European Commission approval, it […]

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has revealed making a large financial loss this year due to its coverage of the Champions League football tournament. On average, only around 5.85 […]

Vivendi Universal’s Canal Satellite has posted a net profit of FFr114.8 million (E17.5 million) on sales of FFr3.87 billion for the financial year 2000. It was the first time the […]

Italy will get a new TV channel on June 24 thanks to the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in broadcaster TeleMonteCarlo (TMC) by Seat Pagine Gialle (part of […]

Greyhound racing channel Gobarkingmadtv, owned by Gaming Internet, has become the latest broadcaster to sign a contract for transponder capacity on Eutelsat’s Eurobird, to compliment its successful Internet operation. A […]

German media firm ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired a 48.4 per cent stake in HOT Networks’ TV shopping channel subsidiary Euvia Media for around E67 million. Under the terms of the deal, […]

Pace Micro Technology has taken the wraps off its low-cost digital TV adapter, which it has developed with its newly acquired French subsidiary Xcom Communications. The new adapter, known as […]

By Peter J. Brown Earth stations no longer fit into a neat, narrowly defined category. No, VSAT vendors are not threatened by any attempt to expand the definition of earth […]

by Clayton Mowry Take a quick look at the global stock exchanges today–the Nikkei in Japan, New York’s NASDAQ or Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Paris CAC-40, London’s FTSE, and […]

By Robert Wold The most useful advice heard during the day-long nightmare was “Never try to catch a falling knife.” It was that Meltdown Monday in March when free-falling NASDAQ […]

by Armand Musey Our research team found a new home at Salomon Smith Barney. This changing of firms required us to reinitiate coverage of the group, which gave us the […]

By Nick Mitsis Launch vehicle providers are fighting an uphill battle as they try to increase their profit margins within a highly competitive marketplace. The keys to success, according to […]

by Gerry Oberst A few years ago, I described plans in Europe to develop a more efficient licensing structure for satellite networks and services. Called the “one stop shop” (OSS), […]

Euro 1, a pay-TV service for foreigners living in Germany, is close to receiving its long-awaited broadcast licence. According to the local media authority of regional state Bremen, the channel, […]

Middle East pay-TV is at another crossroads. In March both Showtime and Arab Radio & Television (ART) re-launched their digital bouquets, while Orbit is about to switch from its so-called […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – A new digital platform for the […]

Russia’s NTV is now wholly under new management, headed by Boris Jordan. He claims that some $750 million is unaccountably “missing” from the station’s total debt burden of $1.6 billion. […]

Axcent Media AG will shortly unveil their second generation PVR unit, which they claim is the “world’s most advanced”. Their Mk 1 machine was launched in Germany last year under […]

Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has launched enhanced television programmes in the UK on Sky Digital, saying it is the first “factual entertainment broadcaster in the UK to launch enhanced and […]