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“Interactivity, for example, changes the content which appears on the screen….”, thus does the UK television regulator ITC help explain what interactivity is all about. The phrase appears within the […]

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has confirmed that it will launch a 24-hour teleshopping network on March 1. To target the country’s large analogue DTH market, RTL Shop will […]

Content protection and management company Irdeto Access has landed two contracts in Asia – one for conditional access in Macao and the other for content protection in India. Irdeto signed […]

Last year marked the first occasion when European communications satellite manufacturers managed to secure a marginally larger market share than their US counterparts in terms of the number of spacecraft […]

  Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike FallonKey Key: D – Digital A – Analogue All times in UTC unless otherwise stated. SR – Symbol Rate […]

CNN is understood to be planning to open another African news bureaux in addition to its existing activity in Johannesburg, Cairo and Nairobi. Lagos, Nigeria is expected to be the […]

By Nick Mitsis The satellite industry emerged strong in 2000 after surviving two dismal years plagued with numerous launch failures and multibillion-dollar business catastrophes. In fact, monolithic business transactions, a […]

Worth by Theresa Foley Will the market for satellite broadband be worth a few billion dollars later in the decade, or four to 10 times that amount? The analysts at […]

Interactivity and bandwidth on demand reside at the nucleus of the new cluster of emerging Ka-band services where the emphasis is on transforming exciting concepts into profitable ventures. And yet, […]

by Armand Musey In a market that has been nothing short of cruel to concept-based companies, share prices of satellite radio initiatives have fallen significantly. As of the close on […]

by David Hartshorn If last year is any indication, 2001 is going to be a milestone for the fixed satellite services industry. Today the industry finds itself at the pivotal […]

The Ka-band (18.8-19.3 GHz downstream/28.6-29.1 GHz upstream): Without a doubt, it’s the next great frontier for VSATs (very small aperture terminals). Offering substantially more bandwidth than either C- or Ku-band, […]

by Gerry Oberst European regulators have commenced an exercise to review the regulatory needs and problems of the satellite industry, this time in an effort to obtain a comprehensive overview […]

by Phillip Clark The communications satellite program of the People’s Republic of China (China) has frequently posed quite a challenge to Western observers seeking to get an overall picture of […]

VTV4, the channel for the Vietnamese community in Europe, has started to sell subscriptions for its satellite delivered service. The channel is part of the German FSP multiplex on Telecom […]

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has said that the company may not proceed with the planned $40 billion initial public offering of its digital satellite TV conglomerate Sky Global Networks […]

TV Travel Group has completed its first venture outside the UK and plans to launch TV Travel Shop in Germany after signing a joint venture agreement with German tour operator […]

As a follow-up to the Franco-African summit in Yaounde, Cameroon’s communication minister Jacques Fame Ndongo presided over the inauguration of satellite broadcasts by the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV). The […]

Einstein.tv, the science and technology TV-web channel, has gone live on Sky Digital (channel 576) and on the Internet. Marking the birth of the new station, the LG Electronics sponsored […]

Rome’s appeals court has suspended the pre-emption clause written into contracts between Tele+ and the major clubs in Italy’s Serie A, thus ruling partly in favour of rival Stream, on […]

Shayman ACeS Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Shayman Telecom and AceS International, have been given a letter of intent from the Indian government saying it will licence ACeS as […]

Services The demand for geostationary satellite launches will be flat during 2001, offering little relief to an industry besieged with stiff competition and increased pressure to lower prices. This opinion […]

EADS (European Aviation, Defence and Space) Launch Vehicles, the former Aerospatiale unit under Phillippe Couillard based in Les Mureaux near Paris, is in the process of implementing the reorganisation of […]

Energis Interactive has unveiled Bright Blue as the brand name for its t-commerce portal slated to launch in the spring. The company is taking advantage of Oftel’s instructions to BSkyB […]

Key: Digital – D Analogue – A 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D During the afternoon of January 25 a live shot of the Sydney skyline at night from a fixed […]

Pace Micro Technology will launch its XTV integrated sat-box plus hard drive unit this quarter, according to CEO Malcolm Miller. He confirmed the highly specified box will not receive a […]

Cologne-based Deutsche Welle (DW) will launch a new European bouquet on AsiaSat 2 on January 22. Dr Burkhard Nowotny, DW’s director of international distribution, said deals with four TV stations […]

France Telecom-owned satellite service provider Globecast says it will beam a new digital multiplex of channels to the UK from Eurobird, “and we may be taking extra capacity,” says CEO […]

Italian national broadcaster Retemia is set to change its name to Hot Italia and be majority owned by a German company. Retemia was founded at the beginning of the 1980s […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: A – Analogue D – Digital 75°E: LMI-1 A Israel’s IBA Channel 2 has launched on 12638MHz horizontal […]