Author: Staff Writer

Discovery Channel claims it has now topped 15 million subscribers in Latin America and the Iberian peninsular. In a separate development, GlobeCast has won a contract to distribute Trinity Broadcast...

Alcatel is set to buy Thales’ 48.8 per cent share in its Alcatel Space joint venture. Under the terms of the deal, which is subject to European Commission approval, it...

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has revealed making a large financial loss this year due to its coverage of the Champions League football tournament. On average, only around 5.85...

Vivendi Universal’s Canal Satellite has posted a net profit of FFr114.8 million (E17.5 million) on sales of FFr3.87 billion for the financial year 2000. It was the first time the...

by Armand Musey Our research team found a new home at Salomon Smith Barney. This changing of firms required us to reinitiate coverage of the group, which gave us the...

by Gerry Oberst A few years ago, I described plans in Europe to develop a more efficient licensing structure for satellite networks and services. Called the “one stop shop” (OSS),...

by Clayton Mowry Take a quick look at the global stock exchanges today–the Nikkei in Japan, New York’s NASDAQ or Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Paris CAC-40, London’s FTSE, and...

By Peter J. Brown Earth stations no longer fit into a neat, narrowly defined category. No, VSAT vendors are not threatened by any attempt to expand the definition of earth...

By Robert Wold The most useful advice heard during the day-long nightmare was “Never try to catch a falling knife.” It was that Meltdown Monday in March when free-falling NASDAQ...

By Nick Mitsis Launch vehicle providers are fighting an uphill battle as they try to increase their profit margins within a highly competitive marketplace. The keys to success, according to...