Author: Staff Writer

AUSSIES PLAN LAUNCH SITE

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later...

CZECH/CME RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMED

The Prague District Commercial Court has ruled that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its directly-owned subsidiary CNTS, along with the licence holder CET21 of the TV Nova broadcasting network,...

TVP BLOCKS POLSAT-EURONEWS VENTURE

COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support...

NEWS BYTES...

Canal+ is reporting consolidated revenues of Eur927 million for the first quarter of 2000, representing a gain of 23.6 per cent from the same period in 1999. For the first...

VIA DIGITAL TESTS INTERNET ACCESS

SPANISH digital satellite platform Via Digital, in partnership with Telefonica’s Internet portal Terra Networks, is carrying out tests with a view to launching a high-speed Internet access service through the...

ENCOURAGING START FOR POLAND'S TV4

NEW launch TV4 is reaching 61 per cent of Polish television households since its launch on April 1. TV4, which has acquired the satellite and terrestrial feeds from Nasza TV...

UPC WAITS TO ROLL OUT CARPET ON EUROHITS

UPC, has delayed the official launch of its digital headend-in-the-sky (‘Euro HITS’) platform to September because of delays in completing the facility. While the platform itself has been operational for...

ICO EMERGES FROM BANKRUPTCY

Tuesday 16 May is the day chosen by the US Bankruptcy Court in Wilmingon, Delaware, to discharge the former ICO Global Communications company from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, under which it...

EUROPESTAR AIMING FOR AUTUMN

EuropeStar, the Loral Global Alliance partner, 51 per cent owned by Alcatel Spacecom, is confident of beating the year-end deadline (when its reservation of its German- registered slot at 45...