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Compiled by Mike Fallon 90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D. The Russian channel STS (Set Televizionnykh Stantsiv) has been able to reach potential viewers in Russia’s Far East for the first...

According to their latest quarterly results (Q1/2002 to September 30), the News Corp-owned subscription specialists NDS now have 25.7 million digital TV subscribers. NDS’s revenue was up 10 percent to...

A summit of leading European pubcasters held in Rome late last month agreed to increase co-operation in both the programming and satellite TV sectors. On the initiative of Italy’s RAI,...

France’s Lagardere group is to launch a new channel named Match TV based on the concept of the well-known glossy news magazine Paris Match. The service, which will be available...

Chris Forrester Editor Speaking at the BSkyB AGM last Friday, Rupert Murdoch said that its 24 percent investment in Leo Kirch’s Premiere World had proved to be a disappointment, with...

Hughes has reported better than expected results for Q3. Showing a net addition of 425,000 DirecTV subscribers – as opposed to a projected 235,000 – and a one-time downward adjustment...

Italy’s Netdish, Fracarro Radioindustrie and Network Teleport Italia (NTI) have announced that the first satellite teleport in Northeast part of the country will become operational this December. Based in Padua,...

SES Multimedia has disclosed details of the satellite-based, high-speed Internet access service it plans to launch with Deutsche Telekom as an alternative to the latter’s conventional telephone line-based broadband service...

HOT Networks, the German broadcaster that operates the teleshopping channel Home Shopping Europe (HSE), has announced an ambitious expansion plan. Outlined at last week’s Medientage Munchen media conference, it will...

Italians satellite TV channels will soon have their own audience ratings thanks to third generation meters to be installed in more than 5,000 sample households by spring 2002. Current estimates...