Author: Staff Writer

MUSIC CHOICE BACK ON PREMIERE

Simon Bazelgette, CEO of Music Choice Europe (MCE), has said he is in advanced discussions with Kirch Group’s Premiere World bouquet. MCE was dropped from DF1 earlier this year. "It...

NEWS BYTES...

Middle East platform Orbit is said to be ending its commitment to Telecom Italia uplink division Telespazio. Altaf Alimohamed, chief executive of Star Select, which shares the Orbit platform, confirmed...

CNN'S MILLENIUM NIGHT

CNN International will use December 31 to bring together what it describes as the "global village" with 100 hours of live coverage of the worldwide millennium celebrations. From the popping...

MONEY ON SKY

As reported in the last issue of Interspace, The Money Channel has secured a long-term carriage contract on Sky Digital, with a launch date fixed for February 7. Money will...

BSKYB ADDS RADIO SERVICES

The long-awaited addition of radio services to the Sky Digital platform will take place around November 15 when 20 stations are added. The BBC will add 12 services, enabling listeners...

NEWS CORP SLIPS IN GLOBAL RACE

A year ago News Corp was ahead of Hughes-owned DirecTV in terms of global customers. News Corp. commanded 29.7 per cent of all satellite pay-TV subscribers, compared with DirecTV’s 26.6...

MEDIASET, KIRCH SIGN AGREEMENT

Italian broadcaster Mediaset may extend its alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group to include pay-TV, according to Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti. Commenting on rumours that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Canal...

MMS: SOLAR ARRAY PROBLEM FIXED

Armand Carlier, CEO of Matra Marconi Space (MMS), has claimed the long-running problems with Matra’s solar arrays were "now sorted out; we know where the problem lies… and how to...

VIRUS ON ASTRA

After two recent closures, the German-language satellite radio offering available on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) is set to gain an additional participant: Virus, the youth radio planned...

GLOBALSTAR SOFT-LAUNCHES SERVICE

CEO Bernard Schwartz launched the soft-rollout of Globalstar, the second GMPCS (Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite) operator at Telecom 99, with the message that "the other guys aren’t of...