Author: Staff Writer

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analog 100.5 degreesE: AsiaSat 2 D AsiaSat 2 capacity is to be used by...

The German music company Edel Music will sell its 12.1 per cent stake in VIVA to Initiatoren Drei Kapitalbeteiligung, a newly founded investment company formed by VIVA Media’s chairman Dieter...

UPC’s Polish digital DTH platform Wizja TV has started transmitting Telewizja Polska’s (TVP’s) two national channels TVP1 and TVP2. Although the move has been criticised by TVP – which was...

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,...

The Andalucian regional station RTVA and production company Andalucia Digital Multimedia have launched Canal Andalucia Turismo, a thematic channel dedicated to promoting tourism in Andalucia in the south of Spain....

The French technology outfit Thales has agreed to buy Orbital Sciences Corps. Sat-nav companies for a reported $70 million (E82.7 million). Thales will now be one of the world’s three...

Tunisia’s radio and television transmission authority has announced plans to set up four digital channels in and around the cities of Tunis, Bizerta and Nabeul by the end of this...

Among NASA’s $767 million (E906 million) first-round Space Launch Initiative awards announced at last month’s Euroconsult Space Transportation Summit meeting was a grant of $135 million to Kistler Aerospace. This...

Investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) published a report on May 21 examining a portfolio of operators including BSkyB, Sogecable,UPC, NTL and Telewest. In it they suggested that Europe’s...

As the votes are counted in the British election on June 7, DTT viewers will be able to plug into the BBC’s election database as part of an enhanced television...