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Investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) published a report on May 21 examining a portfolio of operators including BSkyB, Sogecable,UPC, NTL and Telewest. In it they suggested that Europe’s […]

As the votes are counted in the British election on June 7, DTT viewers will be able to plug into the BBC’s election database as part of an enhanced television […]

“Viva is Germany’s No 1 music TV channel” according to a May 22 report from bankers Merrill Lynch, “and the company intends using its strong brand and experience to expand […]

QVC has resolved technical difficulties that have prevented the home shopping service from offering an impulse buy facility on its Sky Digital feed. In the past few days QVC has […]

In a move that would end the somehow absurd situation of transmitting free-to-air to analogue DTH viewers but not to digital homes, MTV 2 – The Pop Channel, MTV’s sister […]

TV Travel Shop Germany launched on June 1 15.30 CET to a broad analogue DTH community in German-speaking Europe equivalent to more than 13 million homes. The channel, which transmits […]

The first fruits of Pace Micro Technology’s acquisition of French manufacturer Xcom were revealed at Mediacast in London last month, and the much-heralded ‘basic’ receiver turned out to be anything […]

Does the French space agency CNES aim to supplant the ESA in developing new communications satellite technologies? Earlier this year, CNES evolved a plan (TCS-21, Technology for Communications by Satellite) […]

The number of two-way broadband Internet via satellite services keeps growing, with the latest new entrant being Galaxy 2000, operated by UK-based dealer Bentley Walker. The service which was recently […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analog 100.5 degreesE: AsiaSat 2 D AsiaSat 2 capacity is to be used by […]

UPC’s Polish digital DTH platform Wizja TV has started transmitting Telewizja Polska’s (TVP’s) two national channels TVP1 and TVP2. Although the move has been criticised by TVP – which was […]

The BBC and UK cableco NTL are set to launch a new sports channel named British Sport. The service, which will be created by NTL subsidiary Premium Television and backed […]

Advent International has invested $12million in the London-based multichannel operator Zone Vision. The money will be used to boost the company’s expansion, especially of its Romantica, Reality TV and adult […]

Italian police made 364 raids on as many Rome commercial venues during a recent Juventus-Roma soccer match and subsequently levelled charges against 143 owners of bars and restaurants for using […]

Swiss encryption specialists Nagra Kudelski has bought Lysis Int. for SF110 million (E62.8). Lysis provides content owners and broadcasters with software designed to create and operate value-added content including VOD […]

Discovery Channel claims it has now topped 15 million subscribers in Latin America and the Iberian peninsular. In a separate development, GlobeCast has won a contract to distribute Trinity Broadcast […]

Alcatel is set to buy Thales’ 48.8 per cent share in its Alcatel Space joint venture. Under the terms of the deal, which is subject to European Commission approval, it […]

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial broadcaster, has revealed making a large financial loss this year due to its coverage of the Champions League football tournament. On average, only around 5.85 […]

Vivendi Universal’s Canal Satellite has posted a net profit of FFr114.8 million (E17.5 million) on sales of FFr3.87 billion for the financial year 2000. It was the first time the […]

Italy will get a new TV channel on June 24 thanks to the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in broadcaster TeleMonteCarlo (TMC) by Seat Pagine Gialle (part of […]

Greyhound racing channel Gobarkingmadtv, owned by Gaming Internet, has become the latest broadcaster to sign a contract for transponder capacity on Eutelsat’s Eurobird, to compliment its successful Internet operation. A […]

German media firm ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired a 48.4 per cent stake in HOT Networks’ TV shopping channel subsidiary Euvia Media for around E67 million. Under the terms of the deal, […]

Pace Micro Technology has taken the wraps off its low-cost digital TV adapter, which it has developed with its newly acquired French subsidiary Xcom Communications. The new adapter, known as […]

Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that it has now switched off the analogue broadcasting feed for its Viasat Broadcasting satellite pay-TV channels, which include TV1000 and TV1000 Cinema. […]

PanAmSat is to provide full-time video link services from the Americas in support of live coverage of prominent sporting and special events to the EBU, which represents 69 national broadcasters […]

The BBC has secured a third transponder (#38) from Astra at 28.2 degrees East. The contract, which is for five years, will allow the broadcaster to introduce its multiple screen […]

Eurosport News, the sister service of pan-European sports network Eurosport covering sports news, has become available to German households for the first time, albeit through an unconventional way of transmission. […]

BSkyB has taken full control of its t-commerce arm Open by buying out minority partner British Telecom’s 19.9 per cent stake for a maximum GBP387 million (E626.9) in an all-paper […]

Despite the downturn in the so-called dot.com ‘boom’, the past four years has seen internet traffic using satellite grow by an average of 56 per cent a year, says a […]

A=Analog D=Digital 68.5 degreesE: PAS 4 & 7 D The replacement for PAS 4, PAS 10, was successfully launched from Baikonur on May 15 at 01:11 aboard a Proton rocket. […]