Author: Staff Writer

by Robert A. Nelson The antenna is the most visible part of the satellite communication system. The antenna transmits and receives the modulated carrier signal at the radio frequency (RF)...

by Robert N. Wold It happened 15 years ago, the same year we first tensed up in the motion picture, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and also sat...

by Katie McConnell Five years ago, satellite-based distance education appeared to be a minor marketplace barely being pursued by the satellite industry. Today, that scenario has changed. With the worldwide...

Proton launches have recommenced from Baikonur. A Proton-K launched a the first two Yamal-100 craft on the night of September 5/6, following the reported payments last week of back rent...

On September 6 Moscow-based REN-TV, one of the biggest private Russian channels, started broadcasting via Gorizont-43 at 40 degrees East using four transponders which should help to increase a number...

BSkyB has taken a 9 per cent stake in Leeds United FC for Pounds 14 million. The deal will allow BSkyB to act as exclusive media agent for Leeds Sporting,...

Marc Tessier, the recently appointed head of France Television, said that plans to start a time shifted version of terrestrial channel France 2, France 2 Bis, have been abandoned, when...

In a decision which will make Eutelsatis Hot Bird position at 13 degrees East more popular in German-speaking Europe, German public broadcaster ZDF has announced it plans to remain on...

Jacques Espinasse, the Director General of TPS, said that new subscriptions over the summer were up 25 per cent compared to the same period last year, the same figure cited...

Studio Universal, the second German-language channel operated by Universal after 13th Street, launched, as planned, on 1 September at 2200 CET with Pulp Fiction. The pay-TV channel, part of DF1,...