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Italian thematic channel producer Sitcom will not seek an IPO before 2002 in order to give priority to it’s search for new partners. Speaking at a recent press conference, Sitcom […]

Channel D, the commercial pay-TV service, which targets the German speaking communities across the world, aims to launch its 24-hour television channel on August 1. In an exclusive interview with […]

German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World has extended its promotional offer in which the d-box, the set-top-box needed to receive the package, is sold for roughly half its regular price. […]

The second plenary, on the European Galileo satellite navigation programme, was held shortly after the successful second meeting of the EC’s Transport Council (see Interspace 717), where initial funding was […]

UPC Polska has launched its Internet access service ‘chello satelitarne’ to inhabitants of Cracow via the Polish satellite digital package of Wizja TV. Cracow is Poland’s third city to start […]

Rupert Murdoch was scheduled to again meet the directors of Hughes Electronics on Monday April 23 to press his suit for DirecTV. Murdoch’s plan is to slot DirecTV into his […]

Spanish satellite operator Hispasat experienced a good first quarter 2001 by recording a turnover of Pta 4.3 billion (E25.84m), a rise of 27.7 per cent compared to the same period […]

The European Commission has cleared broadcasting rules proposed by European soccer’s governing body Uefa. The proposals include a ban on football broadcasts for two and a half- hours, either on […]

Pace Micro Technology Americas has reached an agreement with NET SAT, Brazil’s largest satellite operator, and Gradiente, a manufacturers of electronic consumer goods in the Brazilian market, to provide 40,000 […]

PanAmSat Corporation says its new PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite has arrived in Kazakhstan in preparation for its May launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. PAS-10 will be sent into space […]

Basque Country-based regional channel EiTB is now reaching the whole of Europe via the Astra satellite system. The channel started test transmissions on April 23 distributing the signal of TV […]

Irdeto Access has sealed its first sale in Japan and will supply its M-Crypt DVB conditional access system to Astem Co Ltd. The Japanese company will use the Irdeto system […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 68.5 degreesE: PAS-4 & 7 D – The replacement for PAS 4 […]

Alcatel Space has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for launch of two spacecraft for GE Americom in 2002 and 2003. The contract allows for Proton launches with […]

Having a second bite at the same cherry, the EU Transport Council met in Luxembourg three weeks ago to complete the job it botched late last December. Then, at a […]

Streaming media is much more than the Internet’s answer to TV. Data, audio and graphics can be streamed, and not just video. Satellite started embracing streaming two years ago, and […]

Asia’s economies continue to thunder back to life after the devastating recession that had obstructed the region’s growth in the late 1990s. In fact, as commerce in the area re-establishes […]

You’ve got to wonder about Chaos Theory. You know: A butterfly flaps its wings in Japan and sets off a series of events that causes a hurricane in Jamaica. Last […]

by Theresa Foley Broadband satellite projects will find it difficult, if not impossible, to raise the large amounts of capital this year necessary to build out their systems, which cost […]

Digital video compression is one of those technologies that just keeps getting better. The reason? As programmers and manufacturers become increasingly familiar with video compression, they’re finding new ways to […]

by Gerry Oberst Some countries ban satellite dishes in an effort to restrict broadcasts from outside their borders, whether for religious, political or purely monopolistic reasons. Even in developed countries, […]

For that sports bar you would like to own in Florida, or that Cinema Center you want installed in your California home, stand up and cheer for the TV technology […]

To tie the knot with the Aussie media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, or not to tie the knot. That is the question facing the GM board, which controls the fate of […]

Eutelsat is taking a dramatic initiative in aggregating content for a bold new streamed video service. Unlike SES/Astra, which sees two-way television as a B2B application, Eutelsat is driving forward […]

Eutelsat elected its supervisory 15-person board on March 21 for an initial three year term. Its four-person management directorate will be elected in May. The election was not without its […]

Two weeks ago Interspace reported that Alcatel affiliate SkyBridge had denounced reports that it was pla nning to abandon – or at least postpone – the launch of its planned […]

Generali Global’s biennial space insurance conference, held recently in Rome, tended to be a repeat of the wake-up call of two years ago in Florence. CEO Benito Pagnanelli said that […]

The directors of the 15 local German media authorities have granted permission to three closed user groups company TV channels at their latest meeting in Schwerin. Telekom TV is a […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd’s subsidiary Gilat Europe has been awarded a deal to provide a broadband satellite communications network of up to 2,000 sites by Telpress SRL. Rome-based Telpress is […]

Xantic, formerly Station 12 and SpecTec – which is owned by KPN of the Netherlands (65 per cent) and Australia’s Telstra (35 per cent) – has signed an agreement with […]