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NEWS BRIEFS

Game Network, the digital TV channel about videogames and multimedia entertainment, is to launch on Eutelsat of September 17. The channel will broadcast free to air via Eutelsat Hot Bird...

RAI TO BE PARTIALLY PRIVATISED

Italian communications minister Salvatore Cardinale has confirmed that Italian public broadcaster RAI could be partially privatised in four to five months time. Speaking in Telese on August 31, Cardinale said...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Key: D=Digital A=Analog 116 degrees E: Koreasat-1/2 (Also known as Mugungwha) D According to Korean sources Koreasat-3 is to be positioned at 112.5 degrees East and not alongside the earlier...

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Ian Ritchie, CEO of Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) in an exclusive interview with Interspace, says he expects Arabic broadcasters to be increasingly open to merger and acquisition activity from...

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The UK’s ONdigital is locked into a dispute over what is perceived to be BSkyB’s reluctance to supply the much-coveted Sky Sports 2 channel to the digital terrestrial operator. Responding...

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BSkyB’s new CEO Tony Ball continues to make his mark at the organisation. Ian West, managing director of BSkyB’s Entertainment division for the past year, quit the company on August...

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Turner Broadcasting System is to encrypt the Astra 1C signal of Cartoon Network and TNT Classic Movies "to restrict its delivery to the United Kingdom". Cartoon Network now has eight...

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BSkyB is to grow its in-house production activities and investigate new and untried distribution channels such as the use of ADSL technology and UMTS wireless distribution, according to CEO Tony...

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The subscribers of Swiss pay-TV channel Teleclub are to get free second generation d-box decoders. As part of the change in the transmission system from analogue PAL to digital MPEG-2/DVB,...

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It is believed that a decision is close on the shape of Nat-Geo 2, the second channel National Geographic intends launching before year-end. Jerry Glover, who heads National Geographic’s UK...