Author: Staff Writer

It seems another planned LEO service has hit the financial brick-wall. Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. (MCHI), a Washington-based company planning to deploy the proposed Ellipso mobile satellite service (MSS) system,...

In a move that would end the somehow absurd situation of transmitting free-to-air to analogue DTH viewers but not to digital homes, MTV 2 – The Pop Channel, MTV’s sister...

Former Channel 5 CEO David Elstein has roundly condemned current UK thinking on the analogue switch-off date, which will take place when 95 per cent of homes have converted to...

TV Travel Shop Germany launched on June 1 15.30 CET to a broad analogue DTH community in German-speaking Europe equivalent to more than 13 million homes. The channel, which transmits...

The Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore has officially launched a specialist business TV channel after a month’s trial. Known as Ventiquattrore.tv, the service – which has just secured...

The first fruits of Pace Micro Technology’s acquisition of French manufacturer Xcom were revealed at Mediacast in London last month, and the much-heralded ‘basic’ receiver turned out to be anything...

Radio 22, a local FM youth channel based in Trier, intends to become available to a pan-European audience by transmitting on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East). This was...

Does the French space agency CNES aim to supplant the ESA in developing new communications satellite technologies? Earlier this year, CNES evolved a plan (TCS-21, Technology for Communications by Satellite)...

A Tehran news agency has reported that Iran will launch Zohreh, its Russian-built communications satellite, within two years. The agency quoted university professor Mehran Mirshams as saying that the Zohreh...

The number of two-way broadband Internet via satellite services keeps growing, with the latest new entrant being Galaxy 2000, operated by UK-based dealer Bentley Walker. The service which was recently...