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Chris Forrester, Editor Multichoice South Africa will introduce a comprehensive OpenTV-based interactive service on its digital platform next March. Viewers will be able to send and receive e-mail, shop and […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 75 degreesE: LMI 1 A: TV Malagasy from Madagascar continues to provide good […]

The Lagardere group is to launch a TV channel branded around its magazine Paris Match before the end of the year. Called Match Télé the station will launch on the […]

Chris Dziadul, Contributing Editor Although the long-awaited merger between Poland’s two digital platforms Wizja TV and Cyfra+ now looks closer than ever, it is still anything but a foregone conclusion. […]

David Del Valle, Madrid Spain’s TV market reached E4,476.6 million revenues in 2000, representing the carriage and broadcasting of TV signals around E187 million (a decrease of 4.5 per cent) […]

Chris Forrester, Editor Echostar has shown its continued confidence in broadband-by-satellite through the investment of another $50 million (E58.53m) into StarBand, the Gilat Satellite Network’s offshoot. The investment was made […]

Chris Forrester, Editor A July 3 report from Merrill Lynch talks of US pay-TV DBS stocks being undervalued “as they do not properly reflect the operating leverage of their satellite […]

A major report from Merrill Lynch’s satellite analysts issued July 3 suggests the two major uncommitted global satellite players – PanAmSat and Loral Space & Communications – make interesting investment […]

PanAmSat issued somewhat mixed second quarter results, July 12. The Connecticut-based satellite operator revised its 2001 numbers to show consolidated full-year revenues in the range of $825 to $835 million, […]

Jorn Krieger, Munich In a landmark decision, the Swiss Upper House has ruled that Swiss local broadcasters Radio Top and Radio Framboise have to encrypt their satellite signals to comply […]

Journalist Walter Issacson (49), a former managing editor of Time magazine has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the CNN News Group. The appointment comes only days after […]

As Italy celebrates the 10th anniversary of pay-TV, Tele+ is getting ready to merge with rival operator Stream, in order to create a single Italian DTH satellite platform. Branislav Pekic […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D: Despite announcing that it would be using Intelsat […]

Star India, the Indian arm of the Murdoch controlled Star TV is scouting for strong Indian partners for its proposed forays into the DTH business, writes Radhakrishna Rao in Bangalore. […]

Competition is fierce in Latin America, as satellite operators and service providers mine what is perceived as rapidly growing demand for both narrowband and broadband services. Is this market big […]

The results are in for our annual satellite survey and the numbers look encouraging. Satellite industry revenues grew by a healthy 17 percent between1999-2000, topping $83 billion. The 238 Western-built […]

by Gerry Oberst Part of the “fiction” in science fiction is the apparent ease with which advanced civilizations, or even the near future of our own civilization, can regulate the […]

by Armand Musey As DBS subscriber growth slows, DirecTV’s dependence on retail distribution is becoming increasingly expensive. We estimate that cost inflation in the retail channel has caused DirecTV’s subscriber […]

by Clayton Mowry A good friend of mine told me recently that in the interest of efficiency, she had actually developed an organizational chart to divide up her family’s chores […]

Innovation in action: that’s the best way to describe today’s private business networks. Whether wholly-owned, or leased from space segment suppliers, these corporate-run systems are finding new ways not just […]

In the week that Arianespace reported its first-ever loss in 20 years of operations, an industry report states that there is a capacity and manufacturing glut. “New satellites with transmission […]

In line with our sister companies, Phillips Business Information and The Phillips Group, Phillips Global Media, publisher of Interspace, is rebranding as PBI Media. The name will be introduced across […]

The future of horseracing consortium Go Racing is in serious doubt after the collapse of talks with the British Horseracing Board (BHB) over the supply of pre-race data. The Go […]

California-based middleware company OpenTV has bought struggling interactive specialist Static, which amongst other assets owns TV entertainment service Playjam. The deal sees OpenTV acquire all of Static’s shares in a […]

BSkyB will delay introducing its second-generation PVR digibox until a ‘hard launch’ now scheduled for Christmas this year. This is the second delay for the Pace Micro Technology-built XTV box. […]

Nobis TV, a new German teleshopping and product presentational channel, will launch in both analogue and digital on Astra (19.2 degrees East) on September 1. The service, which is based […]

A Worldspace official said last week that the company plans to launch its third satellite on Ariane later this year. The craft will provide coverage over South and Central America. […]

Telecom Italia’s business unit Satellite Services, which lists Telespazio as its principal operative asset, has announced several changes to its management structure. While Salvatore Pinto, the ex-CEO of Olivetti-Wang Global […]

NTL is considering selling its broadcast transmission business. Speaking at the Merrill Lynch TMT conference in London, CEO Stephen Carter said it is continuing with plans to create a tracking […]

The VSAT world, hitherto almost exclusively business-to-business or intra-business, is beginning to change. Such was the message conveyed by the third VSAT-2001 conference, mounted recently in London by ComSys. For […]