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Chris Forrester Paris This year’s PBI/Satel Conseil forum generated one over-riding question, seeming to ask ‘which of the key platform speakers’ companies will still be around a year from now?’ […]

Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract to build three satellites for GE American Communications, now in the final stages of being acquired by SES Astra. The new satellites will […]

Freed from its parent Intelsat, New Skies CEO Bob Ross tells Chris Forrester that he has an eye on acquisition New Skies Satellite has come a long way since its […]

10,000 transponders in use by 2003 -Euroconsult guardedly optimistic Chris Bulloch Paris The Paris-based space consultancy Euroconsult kicked off its two-day conference on Financing for Satellite Communications and Broadcasting (August […]

Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D PTV World, PTV3 and PTV News […]

Discussions between News Corp and General Motors over the Hughes-owned DirecTV remained “difficult and inconclusive,” according to News Corp’s annual report issued last Friday. The report also showed that Rupert […]

Echostar recently announced it will invest $50 million to increase its interest in Starband to 32 percent. Starband is a Ku-band two-way high-speed Internet access service that is targeting the […]

By Gerry Oberst In February 2001, this column described ongoing efforts by European officials to review the regulatory situation in the satellite sector. That effort was labeled the comprehensive satellite […]

By Scott Chase What goes up, must come down. In most cases, that old saying rings true. For a dozen aeronautical engineering students from Purdue University working on new ways […]

By Peter J. Brown The capabilities and feature sets that can be found in today’s satellite-oriented network management systems (NMS) are remarkable. While the monitoring and control (M&C) software component […]

By Robert Nelson Most communications satellites operate from the geostationary orbit, since from this orbit a satellite appears to hover over one point on the equator. An earth station antenna […]

By David Hartshorn Here is a wager for you: stop a satellite industry sales executive in the hallway and ask him or her to rank regions in terms of potential […]

By James Careless Distance learning via satellite: these days, it’s everywhere. In fact, as the following case studies show, distance learning via satellite is being widely embraced by all sectors […]

By Robert N. Wold In its 15 member nations, the European Union (EU) has 375 million people, some 51 percent of Europe’s total, making EU-country the world’s largest economic superpower. […]

By Theresa Foley What is the world’s most valuable orbital slot? DirecTV’s 101 degrees W appears to be at the top of the list, bringing in more than $4 billion […]

By Cynthia Boeke Despite the early hour–it is a little after 5:00 a.m.–I am wide-awake, searching the desert for traces of its illustrious history. It is from this seemingly endless […]

Sotires Eleftheriou Paris TPS is to launch a number of new channels over the next few months. At a press conference signaling the end of the summer break the second […]

In an aim to counteract signal blackouts and picture disturbances during extreme weather, heavy rainfalls or thunderstorms in Munich, Premiere World has installed a second uplink site in Nuremberg. The […]

Plans by German service provider Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) to offer cable companies a bundled selection of foreign radio and TV channels for distribution to their subscribers have taken a step further. […]

Alcatel is having a busy summer. In addition to delivering the payloads for ‘Rock’ and ‘Roll’ for XM Radio, the company claims it has won a very respectable 27 per […]

The influential National Association of Broadcasters is lobbying the US Government to deny requests from satellite radio outfits XM Radio and Sirius to obtain frequencies for terrestrial retransmission of their […]

Teledesic, one of the satellite broadband ventures of cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, has announced that it has narrowed the choice of its prime satellite construction contractor to Alenia Spazio of […]

Julian Clover Managing Editor Sky Digital is doing its utmost to squeeze out the remaining analogue subscribers ahead of the closure of its three remaining analogue channels at midnight on […]

Jorn Krieger Munich Turkish pay-TV operator DigiTurk has started to offer a selection of channels to viewers outside its domestic market. According to a spokesman, DigiTurk Euro will targets the […]

In an aim to counteract the growing competition from the new owners of its former cable networks in the prospering market for broadband Internet access, Deutsche Telekom has signed a […]

Starspeeder, the Internet via satellite service operated by Luxembourg-based media company Communication and Banking Equipment Luxembourg (CBL), has run into difficulties. Both its Austrian sales partner Skysurf (http://www.skysurf.at) and its […]

Media merchant bank Veronis Suhler, in its 15th annual Communications Industry Forecast, said there will be a marked spending slowdown in most media industry segments this year. However, the firm […]

Chris Forrester Editor Einstein TV is suffering cash-flow problems and may close unless an influx of fresh funding can be sourced. WhereitsatTV, a music-based channel is also reportedly about to […]

Despite pulling out of the prestigious Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, UK media minister Tessa Jowell is widely expected to shortly announce approval for the BBC to go ahead and […]

CNN has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai’s ‘tax free’ Media City zone to open a news-gathering bureaux in the city, its fifth in the Mid-East. The international news […]