Author: Staff Writer

POLSAT SEEKING CYFRA PLUS STAKE

Poland’s leading private broadcaster Polsat has started negotiations with Canal Plus Polska to take a stake in TKP, the holding company for the latter’s digital platform, Cyfra Plus and the...

NEWS BYTES

Merlin Communications has secured a deal to transmit live Scottish Premier League football not available elsewhere on satellite with Albasat. The first match, Rangers vs Dundee, went out on November...

EU TO EXAMINE DASA/MATRA MERGER

The European Commission has decided to initiate a close examination in the planned creation of Astrium, the company into which German Daimler Chrysler Aerospace (Dasa) and Matra Marconi Space want...

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BREAK

This will be the last issue of Interspace for 1999. We would like to wish our readers all the best for the holiday season. The first issue of 2000 will...

CATHOLIC CHANNEL TO LAUNCH

KTO (pronounced Kato, the same as Catho, the common abbreviation for Catholic) is to launch on Lyonnaise Câ ble on December 13. The channel, with an annual budget of FFr30...

Africa: Integrating Into The Wireless World

by Amanda L. Kazdoy Satellite industry experts tend to agree that Africa is in dire need of basic telecommunications services, particularly in rural communities. As developing regions are becoming more...

Asia: Betting On The Net

by James Careless This year has been better than 1998 for the Asia-Pacific satellite community, but not by much. On the technical side, it’s been a mixed bag: Asiasat 3S...

Europe: A Jewel With Many Facets

by Robustiano Fernandez Europe is a study in contrasts. To many overseas observers, it presents an increasingly unified and sophisticated front, and in many respects Europe is a united, if...