Author: Staff Writer

Telecoms satellite Artemis, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been chalked in for a launch on an Ariane 5 launcher “sometime between June and August 2001”. The launch...

With more than 20 Asian satellite TV channels currently broadcasting to UK audiences – with a surge in launches and activity coming over the last 12 months in particular –...

Italian pubcaster RAI has confirmed it is to launch its seventh thematic digital TV channel on March 1, which will be for TV series and mini-series. RaiSat Fiction will show...

“Interactivity, for example, changes the content which appears on the screen….”, thus does the UK television regulator ITC help explain what interactivity is all about. The phrase appears within the...

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has confirmed that it will launch a 24-hour teleshopping network on March 1. To target the country’s large analogue DTH market, RTL Shop will...

Content protection and management company Irdeto Access has landed two contracts in Asia – one for conditional access in Macao and the other for content protection in India. Irdeto signed...

Last year marked the first occasion when European communications satellite manufacturers managed to secure a marginally larger market share than their US counterparts in terms of the number of spacecraft...

  Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike FallonKey Key: D – Digital A – Analogue All times in UTC unless otherwise stated. SR – Symbol Rate...

CNN is understood to be planning to open another African news bureaux in addition to its existing activity in Johannesburg, Cairo and Nairobi. Lagos, Nigeria is expected to be the...

by David Hartshorn If last year is any indication, 2001 is going to be a milestone for the fixed satellite services industry. Today the industry finds itself at the pivotal...