webdesign

The History Channel has linked up with a travel specialist to offer what it claims is a first for a documentary channel, in that viewers to its upcoming “Egypt: Beyond […]

The London-based broadcaster and distribution company Zone Vision has expanded distribution of its Reality TV channel onto the Multichoice DSTV South Africa bouquet. By doing so, it has added some […]

The struggling interactive games service Sportal has been sold for a nominal price to the online gaming company UKbetting. Some eighteen months ago BSkyB paid around GBP10 million for a […]

Paris-based Fashion TV says it expects to reach 1 million viewers a week on Sky Digital during this month. According to BARB data for October, the channel has a UK […]

The Polish satellite channel RTL7 is reported to be in talks with a number of possible buyers including the Church-backed TV Puls, UK company Zone Vision, film distributor SPI and […]

Chris Forrester Editor The Middle East pay-TV platform Orbit is preparing around eight new channels for its line-up and will introduce them over the next few months. At the same […]

Hughes has reported better than expected results for Q3. Showing a net addition of 425,000 DirecTV subscribers – as opposed to a projected 235,000 – and a one-time downward adjustment […]

Italy’s Netdish, Fracarro Radioindustrie and Network Teleport Italia (NTI) have announced that the first satellite teleport in Northeast part of the country will become operational this December. Based in Padua, […]

SES Multimedia has disclosed details of the satellite-based, high-speed Internet access service it plans to launch with Deutsche Telekom as an alternative to the latter’s conventional telephone line-based broadband service […]

HOT Networks, the German broadcaster that operates the teleshopping channel Home Shopping Europe (HSE), has announced an ambitious expansion plan. Outlined at last week’s Medientage Munchen media conference, it will […]

Italians satellite TV channels will soon have their own audience ratings thanks to third generation meters to be installed in more than 5,000 sample households by spring 2002. Current estimates […]

By Chris Forrester Anyone who bought stock in the US company Central European Media Enterprises (CME) at under $1 (E1.12) a share just a few weeks ago would have seen […]

Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D: From Pakistan, PTV1 and Radio Pakistan have left […]

NTL’s $1 billion (E1.12 billion) sale of their satellite uplink and transmission towers business has reportedly interested BBC Technology. It seems the BBC would step in with a pre-agreed bid […]

According to the US Space Command (USSPACECOM), there are currently around 700 “active” satellites in orbit. Of these some 300 are operated by US civilian, commercial or military interests, with […]

by Chris Forrester With News Corp. suffering a share price slide of around 40 per cent in the last two months, it seems Rupert Murdoch’s aim of adding DirecTV to […]

Chris Forrester Editor Eurosport is planning to export its sports, sports news and dot.com trio of services to American, Asian and Far Eastern broadcast markets. According to Vincent Cheupin the […]

The uncertainty surrounding the future of VIVA ZWEI, the ailing sister service of the German music channel VIVA, has been ended by the news that the Cologne-based broadcaster will revamp […]

Italian-based BluSat is the latest company to offer satellite-based broadband services aimed mainly at a business clientele. Already active in Italy and Spain – with plans to expand to Central […]

by Chris Forrester Despite continuing DARS problems in the US, Alcatel and Worldspace have both confirmed their Euro-DAB project will continue with a provisional launch date of late 2004. The […]

The French food channel Gourmet TV, whose backers include an unnamed Anglo-American company with interests in New York, has delayed its launch by four to six weeks due to the […]

By Chris Forrester British Telecom’s (BT’s) Broadcast Services division say that while they remain confident about filling capacity on new satellites planned for launch, heavily discounted tariffs by some operators […]

By Toby Marshall The current shakeout among smaller UK digital TV channels, coupled with Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s decision to allow the BBC to go ahead with its plans to […]

Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 75 degreesE: LMI 1 D: Moscow’s TV6 has launched on 12610 MHz vertical, […]

More redundancies are taking place at CNBC Europe’s London headquarters, with some 10 staff believed to be immediately affected. The service has also suspended its hourly supply of Scandinavian business […]

Gerry Oberst In late July, the U.K. government released a substantial report, two years in the making, to evaluate its funding for civil space activities. Although the United Kingdom has […]

Theresa Foley With first generation Ka-band satellite systems still on the ground and far from being a sure thing, the action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in August to […]

Theresa Foley A year ago, the excitement about streaming–a new Internet-based business that promised to eat up lots of satellite and terrestrial capacity and provide the basis for dozens of […]

Armand Musey XM Radio re-ceivers became available in Dallas and Phoenix in September, the service is rolling out in the southwest in October, and should be available throughout the entire […]

Peter J. Brown Hybrid wireless/satellite (HWS) networks can be deployed anywhere. Using an antenna on a tower or a building to create a secondary terrestrial wireless footprint within a satellite […]