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Canal Plus is signing up 1,000 subscribers a day in Italy and plans to reach the break-even point by the end of 2000. Canal Plus-backed Telepi_ CEO Michel Thoulouze has...

A major report from investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on Italy’s Mediaset has described the company as having considerable "value in diversity". The Morgan Stanley report said that Italian...

Norwegian viewers will soon have another domestic channel to choose from: on September 22 Metropol will launch in the greater Oslo area, taking over the franchise, and the local terrestrial...

In a move that took the German media business by surprise, Georg Kofler, chairman of Pro Sieben Media AG, has decided to leave the German media group when his contract...

Bernie Ecclestone, the president of the world motor-racing body, the FOA, has announced major changes in the way Formula 1 Grand Prix will be transmitted on digital PPV. Speaking at...

Comsat shareholders have approved the company’s proposed merger with Lockheed Martin. Approximately 99 per cent of the total votes cast were in favour of the merger, representing over 74 per...

Key: A. Analogue D. Digital 83-E: Insat–2E D. For the first time for one of its regular TV channel relays, Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan has started to use digital compression...

Russia’s "war of the TV channels" between the state-backed ORT and NTV, privately-owned by Vladimir Gusinsky’s Media Most group shows no sign of abating. ORT has frequently reported on Most’s...

One of the TV channels granted only a temporary broadcasting permit during the recent round of terrestrial broadcast licensing for private TV channels by the Italian Ministry for Communications was...

MTV Italia is facing the prospect of losing its nationwide terrestrial TV distribution following the announcement by Italy’s Ministry of Communications that only eight private TV networks will have their...