Author: Staff Writer

Journalist Walter Issacson (49), a former managing editor of Time magazine has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the CNN News Group. The appointment comes only days after...

As Italy celebrates the 10th anniversary of pay-TV, Tele+ is getting ready to merge with rival operator Stream, in order to create a single Italian DTH satellite platform. Branislav Pekic...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D: Despite announcing that it would be using Intelsat...

Star India, the Indian arm of the Murdoch controlled Star TV is scouting for strong Indian partners for its proposed forays into the DTH business, writes Radhakrishna Rao in Bangalore....

Innovation in action: that’s the best way to describe today’s private business networks. Whether wholly-owned, or leased from space segment suppliers, these corporate-run systems are finding new ways not just...

Competition is fierce in Latin America, as satellite operators and service providers mine what is perceived as rapidly growing demand for both narrowband and broadband services. Is this market big...

The results are in for our annual satellite survey and the numbers look encouraging. Satellite industry revenues grew by a healthy 17 percent between1999-2000, topping $83 billion. The 238 Western-built...

by Gerry Oberst Part of the “fiction” in science fiction is the apparent ease with which advanced civilizations, or even the near future of our own civilization, can regulate the...

by Armand Musey As DBS subscriber growth slows, DirecTV’s dependence on retail distribution is becoming increasingly expensive. We estimate that cost inflation in the retail channel has caused DirecTV’s subscriber...

by Clayton Mowry A good friend of mine told me recently that in the interest of efficiency, she had actually developed an organizational chart to divide up her family’s chores...