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by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger According to market research firm Analysys, by 2012 the worldwide broadband, or bandwidth-on- demand, market is expected to total $990 billion (versus about $195...

An alliance made up of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Telecom Italia and German media magnate Leo Kirch may yet be the white knight that will save fledgling Italian TV network...

The second failure of a Proton launcher in four months, and with it the loss of a satellite Russia badly needed, has left the hard pressed Russian satellite communications industry...

A&E’s History Channel is expected shortly to confirm three new distribution agreements for the Asian and Far East region. Whitney Goit, executive vice president, A&E TV Networks, said the three...

Key: D = Digital A = Analog 105.5 degrees E: Asiasat-3S A. Zee TV has launched a new, exclusively Punjabi-language channel called Alpha Punjabi on 3900 MHz vertical in clear...

German media company Pro Sieben Group managed to increase turnover and profit during the first nine months of this year. Profit before tax climbed by DM10.3 million (Euro5.3 million) to...

Leo Kirch’s digital pay-TV package Premiere World is to get some unexpected competition: Dusseldorf-based media house Rheinische Post plans to enter the German pay-TV market. Media company Deutsche Fernsehnachrich-ten Agentur...

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported a record 120 per cent increase in subscribers to its digital platform for June. At the same time, Stream has announced that Corrado Sciolla...

National Geographic Television has added another UK digital channel, Adventure 1, from November 1. A company spokesman said the material is expected to attract younger viewers than its existing National...

The latest figures from Canal Plus reveal a total of 12.789 million pay TV subscribers in Europe as of September 30, an increase of 17 per cent over the previous...