Author: Staff Writer

The tragic attack on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon became more personal for Boeing employees when it was confirmed that three of their colleagues, all with Boeing’s...

US-based media company AOL Time Warner is to become a shareholder in Viva 2, the soon-to-be revamped sister service of German music channel Viva. According to a statement issued last...

National Geographic Channel has just launched on the French Canal Satellite Numérique, following the signature with Canal Satellite in July. This brings the doc channel to a total of 134...

One of the repercussions of the Vivendi-Universal merger is that it is getting increasingly difficult to get detailed information on the activity of subsidiaries. Interspace did manage to glean one...

Kids Gate, the children’s channel planned by Jochen Krohne, the former managing director of Munich-based commercial television channel TM3, has overcome its last regulatory hurdle. The federal anti media concentration...

A wave of digital concentration is taking place in the international DTH market. Spain may be the next on the list, writes David Del Valle “United we stand”. This seems...

Even though Amos 2 is not expected to be launched until the winter of 2002-3, planning and outline development is taking place on a proposed Amos 3, according to sources...

Despite the slow progress in determining its new owners, DirecTV showed no reluctance to put a brake on its own progress, and last week ordered a new craft from Space...

More than 75,000 households are receiving ORF’s two domestic television channels through the Austrian public broadcaster’s digital package on Astra (19.2 degrees East). According to a statement, the Vienna-based broadcaster,...

Dubai-based pay-TV platform Showtime will launch an interactive service later this month and a N-VOD PPV service a couple of months later. Showtime, which uses Irdeto conditional access, has also...