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Japan’s Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications will eliminate restrictions on the amount of equity foreign investors can hold in communications satellite digital broadcasters, according to reports...

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 –...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 68.5 degreesE: PAS-4 & 7 A – The Russian channel RTR was...

Arianespace has delayed the launch of Flight 140, Eutelsat’s ‘Eurobird’ craft destined for 28.5 degrees East. Eurobird is delayed until the evening of March 8 “in order to conduct some...

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...