Author: Staff Writer

FOREIGN SERVICES PLATFORM LAUNCHES ON 8 WEST

The foreign services platform Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) which wants to provide independent German cable operators with international radio and television channels from September, will use capacity on Eutelsat’s new ‘Hot Bird’...

Regultory Review: No Satellite Auctions

by Gerry Oberst A small provision in the recent Intelsat privatization law adopted by the United States in mid-March this year could have large implications for the international satellite field....

Dollars and Sense: SPOT Goes On Line

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger Panamsat has finally outlined its long-awaited Internet strategy, Net/36, and this will be very positive for the company’s growth prospects going forward. Unfortunately, investors...

MESSIER WANTS STREAM BANNED FROM PLATCO

Jean-Marie Messier, the chairman of French utility and communications giant Vivendi, has requested that Italian pay-TV platform Stream should be excluded from Rupert Murdoch’s planned global satellite holding Platco. The...