Author: Staff Writer

The Biography Channel, a sister service to the History Channel, will launch at 6pm on Sky Digital on October 1, subject to last-minute negotiations between BSkyB and Biography’s parent, A&E...

Recently launched UK thematic service Channel Health plans to raise pounds5.1 million (E8.46 million) by issuing 35.7 million shares at 57p (E0.95) each. If successful the channel will be valued...

As tradition dictates, public broadcaster RAI will have the exclusive Italian TV rights to broadcast the Olympic Games taking place in Sydney this September. However, this time around the Italian...

US electronics group Motorola has cleared the last hurdle to allow it to pull down satellites orbiting the earth for the bankrupt Iridium mobile phone company, which it backed. Following...

Spanish Pay-TV group Sogecable recorded a net profit of PTA 345 million (E2.1 million) in the first six months of the year, compared with losses of PTA 1.1 million (E6,611)...

Boeing has already launched its Connexion system for broadband communications to business aircraft, and at the Farnborough Air Show last month presented its development as a commercial system for the...

The Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab Ericsson Space has won two subcontracts to supply onboard electronic systems for satellites under construction. Under one of the subcontracts, the company will provide 45...

Hughes Electronics Corp. [GMH] named three new corporate vice presidents. Pat Doyle was promoted to corporate vice president for finance and acting treasurer. He joined the company in 1992 as...

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) has announced a further intercontinental expansion–the move into the Western Hemisphere that it long has planned. It is investing $135 million in Embratel’s satellite Ivision...

As satellite business executives look forward to the first years of the 21st century, they can expect the landscape of multimedia space-based applications to remain turbulent. More than ever, in...