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Eutelsat’s Eurobird (planned for 28.5 degrees East) is not due for launch until around February 2001, but is already creating interest amongst independent, that is non- affiliated, broadcasters. For example, […]

German public radio and television broadcaster ARD intends to distribute its main domestic TV channel, Das Erste, on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite system at 13 degrees East. According to industry […]

The pack of satellite broadcasters in the Middle East region – both pay and free-to-air – risk “bleeding to death” unless they come together in some sort of common platform, […]

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial TV broadcaster, intends to add multimedia applications like e-mail, home shopping and home banking to its digital package on Astra (19.2 degrees East), transponder 89 […]

A new company for the new commercial era the satellite industry is entering has come into being in the form of ManSat. Encouraged by the fact that commercial investment in […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A D – The Russian channel, TV Tsentr, appears to […]

Tandberg Television said it has won contracts worth a total of more than $23 million from Australian broadcasting networks that have bought Tandberg’s digital TV equipment for terrestrial broadcasting. Network […]

The Boeing Co.’s [BA] third-quarter earnings rose to $609 million, or 70 cents per share, on revenues of $11.88 billion. The result compares with a profit of $477 million, or […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded RadarSat International (RSI) the rights to distribute ERS and Envisat satellite data worldwide. “This contract gives us an excellent opportunity to build the […]

At 8:40 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]-built Atlas 2A rocket soared into space from Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Less than 30 […]

Inetcable.com Inc. of Ottawa, an applications service provider, has selected BroadLogic Network Technologies Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., to supply it with BroadLogic’s Satellite Express desktop satellite receiver so it can […]

Globalstar [GSTRF] and Arnav Systems Inc. of Puyallup, Wash., said Arnav will use the Globalstar system to provide satellite-based voice and data communications to the general aviation market. General aviation […]

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] of San Diego has joined the SkyBridge LP group of companies planning to build an 80-satellite low-Earth-orbit system for high-speed Internet connections. It will contribute its code […]

PanAmSat Corporation reported its third quarter and nine months results ended September 30, 2000 – with a 3Q downturn occurring due to a one-off payment incurred by a venture in […]

The launch of the first satellite for the UAE-based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company, called Thuraya-1, is scheduled for tomorrow morning (October 19). The satellite will be launched by Sea Launch […]

Caltiger.com, a leading ISP in India, will use Loral CyberStar’s high-speed, satellite-based WorldCast Premier Internet access service to speed up Internet content delivery to its end users. The contract will […]

Pro Sieben intends to relaunch its promotion service for the six channel audio system Dolby Digital 5.1, in which the German general interest channel has been airing selected movies since […]

Eutelsat, the European satellite operator, announced that the W1 satellite, which was launched on September 6 by Ariane V132, has gone into full commercial service at 10 degrees East. Traffic […]

Kirch Group intends to turn the women-focused entertainment channel TM3 into a music and comedy channel for young viewers early next year, probably under the new name Sun TV. According […]

DC Sat.Net has completed the first series of commercial IP streaming transmissions using the Astra BBI News feed system. The live transmissions were carried out for DC’s client Escape TV, […]

Arnav Systems Inc has signed an agreement with Globalstar to provide satellite-based voice and data communication for the Arnav Aeronautical Network (AAN). Serving the general aviation market, which includes regional […]

Vivendi SA has agreed to sell its 23 per cent stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group, Europe’s second- largest pay-TV company, to secure European regulatory approval for its $44 billion […]

The N-SAT-110 telecommunications satellite, designed and built for Space Communications Corporation (SCC) and JSAT Corporation of Tokyo, Japan by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, was launched successfully from Kourou, French […]

PanAmSat Corporation’s latest spacecraft, the PAS-1R Atlantic Ocean Region satellite, has arrived in Kourou, French Guiana in preparation for its ‘historic’ lift-off in mid November. “The deployment of PAS-1R marks […]

EchoStar Communications Corporation and Geocast Network Systems Inc have reached an agreement to deliver personalised broadband services to PC users via EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service. Under the terms […]

ONdigital, the interactive digital TV service reports it had 896,000 customers signed up, as of October 16. The figure for the quarter ended 30 September, 2000 was 878,000 – more […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue E: 80 degreesE: Express-6A D – Three Russian radio stations have started […]

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has appointed Giancarlo Guastini as its new director general, a post previously occupied by Giovanni Minoli. Guastini, who was previously in charge of fiction at Mediaset […]

Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] named three senior executives to new positions as The Boeing Co. [BA] completed the purchase of the satellite manufacturing operations for $3.75 billion in […]

Eutelsat has arranged a $484.33 million multicurrency, revolving credit facility to a establish more flexible line of credit in anticipation of its privatization next July “and its likely IPO within […]