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In a decision which will make Eutelsatis Hot Bird position at 13 degrees East more popular in German-speaking Europe, German public broadcaster ZDF has announced it plans to remain on […]

Jacques Espinasse, the Director General of TPS, said that new subscriptions over the summer were up 25 per cent compared to the same period last year, the same figure cited […]

The board of German media group Pro Sieben Media AG has elected Swiss economic jurist Urs Rohner as its new chairman. The decision was made unanimously, Pro Sieben said in […]

Studio Universal, the second German-language channel operated by Universal after 13th Street, launched, as planned, on 1 September at 2200 CET with Pulp Fiction. The pay-TV channel, part of DF1, […]

BSkyB’s new CEO Tony Ball continues to make his mark at the organisation. Ian West, managing director of BSkyB’s Entertainment division for the past year, quit the company on August […]

Turner Broadcasting System is to encrypt the Astra 1C signal of Cartoon Network and TNT Classic Movies "to restrict its delivery to the United Kingdom". Cartoon Network now has eight […]

BSkyB is to grow its in-house production activities and investigate new and untried distribution channels such as the use of ADSL technology and UMTS wireless distribution, according to CEO Tony […]

The subscribers of Swiss pay-TV channel Teleclub are to get free second generation d-box decoders. As part of the change in the transmission system from analogue PAL to digital MPEG-2/DVB, […]

It is believed that a decision is close on the shape of Nat-Geo 2, the second channel National Geographic intends launching before year-end. Jerry Glover, who heads National Geographic’s UK […]

Canal Plus is signing up 1,000 subscribers a day in Italy and plans to reach the break-even point by the end of 2000. Canal Plus-backed Telepi_ CEO Michel Thoulouze has […]

A major report from investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on Italy’s Mediaset has described the company as having considerable "value in diversity". The Morgan Stanley report said that Italian […]

Norwegian viewers will soon have another domestic channel to choose from: on September 22 Metropol will launch in the greater Oslo area, taking over the franchise, and the local terrestrial […]

In a move that took the German media business by surprise, Georg Kofler, chairman of Pro Sieben Media AG, has decided to leave the German media group when his contract […]

Comsat shareholders have approved the company’s proposed merger with Lockheed Martin. Approximately 99 per cent of the total votes cast were in favour of the merger, representing over 74 per […]

Bernie Ecclestone, the president of the world motor-racing body, the FOA, has announced major changes in the way Formula 1 Grand Prix will be transmitted on digital PPV. Speaking at […]

Key: A. Analogue D. Digital 83-E: Insat–2E D. For the first time for one of its regular TV channel relays, Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan has started to use digital compression […]

Ian Ritchie, CEO of Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) in an exclusive interview with Interspace, says he expects Arabic broadcasters to be increasingly open to merger and acquisition activity from […]

The UK’s ONdigital is locked into a dispute over what is perceived to be BSkyB’s reluctance to supply the much-coveted Sky Sports 2 channel to the digital terrestrial operator. Responding […]

Flextech shares leapt last week following a sharp drop of 17 per cent over a two week period. Analysts at Merrill Lynch put out a note on the company with […]

Key: A. Analogue D. Digital 122 degrees E: Asiasat-1 Asiasat-1 has left its previous slot of 105.5 degrees East after being replaced by Asiasat-3S and is en route to 122 […]

Russia’s Krunichev Space Centre has established that a welding defect in the number three engine of the rocket’s second stage was the cause of the failure of the Raguda launch […]

BSkyB will reveal its final year results this week, and is expected to confirm that it has already achieved digital sales past the one million mark, following the implementation of […]

Russia’s "war of the TV channels" between the state-backed ORT and NTV, privately-owned by Vladimir Gusinsky’s Media Most group shows no sign of abating. ORT has frequently reported on Most’s […]

One of the TV channels granted only a temporary broadcasting permit during the recent round of terrestrial broadcast licensing for private TV channels by the Italian Ministry for Communications was […]

MTV Italia is facing the prospect of losing its nationwide terrestrial TV distribution following the announcement by Italy’s Ministry of Communications that only eight private TV networks will have their […]

A new Catholic cultural channel from Austria has started test transmissions on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 5 satellite at 13 degrees East. The channel, called K-TV, is using the German digital […]

In a controversial move which will add yet more fuel the ongoing discussion about equal, non-discriminatory access to digital television in Germany, Kirch Group has begun to exchange the first […]

Polish national broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) has, as expected, agreed terms with Canal Plus Polska for its participation in the Polish Cyfra+ digital bouquet. Under the terms of the agreement, […]

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said on July 29 he was not interested in increasing News Corp’s stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream from its current 35 per cent and […]

Matra Marconi Space (MMS) still has not cleared its solar arrays for shipment, nor has it formally admitted they are defective (see Interspace 671-2). The French arm of the company […]