Author: Staff Writer

Sotires Eleftheriou Paris TPS is to launch a number of new channels over the next few months. At a press conference signaling the end of the summer break the second...

In an aim to counteract signal blackouts and picture disturbances during extreme weather, heavy rainfalls or thunderstorms in Munich, Premiere World has installed a second uplink site in Nuremberg. The...

Plans by German service provider Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) to offer cable companies a bundled selection of foreign radio and TV channels for distribution to their subscribers have taken a step further....

Alcatel is having a busy summer. In addition to delivering the payloads for ‘Rock’ and ‘Roll’ for XM Radio, the company claims it has won a very respectable 27 per...

The influential National Association of Broadcasters is lobbying the US Government to deny requests from satellite radio outfits XM Radio and Sirius to obtain frequencies for terrestrial retransmission of their...

Chris Forrester Editor The UK multichannel broadcast scene has had a bad two weeks. Pay-per-view service U Direct, Wellbeing, a JV channel from Granada TV and Boots laid off some...

Barry Flynn Contributing Editor Service provider DC-SAT.NET became the first UK company to demonstrate the capabilities of the Astra DTH platform’s IP-based Broadband Interactive System (BBI) on August 2, ahead...

Chris Bulloch Interspace The Arianespace Enquiry Board investigating the AR.5 (Flight 142) upper stage malfunction of July 12 reported back on August 1 as promised, though its findings were not...

The once dominant terrestrial networks are losing money in the satellite networks. Recently returned from Japan, Chris Forrester asesses the market Ariane’s July 12 loss of Japan’s BSAT-2b DBS satellite...

Chris Forrester Editor Last week it emerged that Loral’s satellite manufacturing arm, Space Systems Loral, is “very close” to finalising a number of satellite contracts including an order for DirecTV...