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MTV and UPC Polska are preparing to launch three new digital music channels in Poland next month via UPC Direct’s satellite platform. The new channels to be aired on the...

The future of Germany’s pay-TV market might lie in the hands of BSkyB. There is growing speculation in the German media industry about the consequences of a clause which is...

Radhakrishna Rao, Interspace’s correspondent in Bangalore, India, delivers a timely overview of the current prospects for DTH India is not a newcomer to the area of direct satellite broadcasting technology....

Two reports on UK digital TV offer mixed views of future take up. One somewhat pessimistic report from Optimedia suggests that digital take-up in the UK is about to dramatically...

EchoStar Communications added around 495,000 new subscribers to its DISH Network DTH television service during the fourth quarter of 2000, a 16 per cent increase on Q4 1999. It ended...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D=Digital A=Analogue 68.5°E: PAS-4 & 7 A Simaye Azadi Iranian National TV has launched on 11170MHz horizontal in clear...

BSkyB’s chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein, speaking at the Financial Times broadcasting conference, accused the UK government’s policymakers of “a deliberate unwillingness to understand what the digital satellite proposition is...

A New Challenge For Satellites Of course, dear comrades, you remember HAL from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. And, of course, you realize we’re now in 2001. So...

by Gerry Oberst The U.S. space industry should benefit from the conclusions of a recent panel set up to assess the U.S. national security space management and organizational structure. In...

by Armand Musey Late last year, we downgraded the DBS stocks over concerns of near-term deterioration in their business model. Throughout 2000, we have noticed that DBS subscriber acquisition costs...