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Enterprise Value And Hot Spot Capability One fantastic phenomenon of the turbulent stock market is the huge enterprise value of Globalstar L.P [GSTRF] relative to other satellite programs. During May, […]

Sea Launch has said it has completed its analysis of its launch failure last March 12 and is ready to return to flight late next month. Its next launch will […]

BSkyB launched its Sky News Active digital service Monday (June 27). The system uses the equivalent of two digital transmission streams to deliver up to five simultaneous channels on mini-screens. […]

A new meeting between Telecom Italia president Roberto Colaninno and News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch regarding the future of Italian digital satellite TV platform Stream is planned for this week. […]

German digital pay-TV platform operator Premiere World is considering a return to retail sales in addition to the currently favoured rental model. According to industry sources, it is planned to […]

BBC Worldwide says its aggregated distribution count for its global channels now tops 300 million homes. Revealing details from BBC Worldwide’s Annual Report & Accounts (to March 31 this year), […]

German music channel Viva is planning to turn itself into a multimedia brand with multimedia brand with ambitions to expand into the United States. According to chairman Dieter Gorny, the […]

Italy’s antitrust regulator has started formal proceedings against Canal+-owned Italian digital TV platform Tele+, claiming that it used its dominant position to buy up an excessive share of TV rights […]

The prime ministers of Germany’s regional states have agreed to make a number of changes to the national media law. At the heart of the new legislation is the increase […]

ITN has named August 1 as the launch date for the ITN News Channel. Describing the venture as the “World’s first fully convergent digital news channel” ITN chief executive Stewart […]

Europe Online founder Candace Johnson – and still President of the Board – has brought in Dennis Hightower, most recently president of Disney Consumer Products in Paris, as CEO “to […]

Institutional investors have unloaded their holdings in Globalstar in a telling sign that they expect the company ultimately to file for bankruptcy, a panel of industry analysts have said. The […]

A survey conducted by Makno on behalf of pubcaster RAI has shown there to be 2,300,000 Italian DTH households, representing 12 per cent of total TV households. More than 1,800,000 […]

Telefonica-backed Antena 3 TV has moved the transmissions of its international channel to the Hispasat 1C satellite (30 degrees West). Antena 3 Internacional, which is aimed at North America, was […]

EMS Technologies has received an order for more that 15,000 broadband, Ka-Band, two-way VSat terminals from a European-based company that will provide service via one of the SES-Astra satellites. EMS […]

With this in-depth study of Sky Global Network’s plans, drawn from analysts comments plus Sky Global’s June 20 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Interspace begins what will […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom-2&3 D – Asian Multimedia Network (AMN), which is due […]

Neibal Group International of Abu Dhabi has signed a contract with Thailand’s Shin Satellite to transmit the first Urdu digital television channel to broadcast family entertainment. The channel, a joint […]

Phoenix Satellite TV, the Hong Kong-based satellite and cable broadcaster part-owned by News Corp, says it intends raising HK$785.2 million ($100.8 million) in its upcoming IPO, offering stock at HK$1.08, […]

Giancaro Leone has taken up the post of director at Rai Uno replacing Agostino Sacca in one of a series of changes at the public broadcaster. Stefano Munafo has replaced […]

The Sky Digibox from fifth manufacturer Sony is about to be released following long delays and reported disagreements between Sony and Sky. Sony’s VTX-S760U is the first receiver for Sky’s […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] has launched successfully the TSX 5 satellite, which it built for the U.S. Air Force for a series of scientific experiments. The satellite was launched June […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced June 20 the launch of a broad-based effort to advance U.S. interests in commericial space development through the formation of a Space Enterprise Council. […]

In hopes of further helping organizations will be able to monitor, map and measure changes to the Earth’s surface more regularly and more affordably, Colorado-based Space Imaging significantly has reduced […]

NASA has awarded Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) launch contracts to The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]. The agency awarded three launches under the contracts to Boeing. NASA […]

The failure of Iridium LLC may have cost investors and bankers nearly $5 billion, but space ventures that are breaking ground through the Internet, broadband applications or multimedia content delivery […]

NEW YORK–Financiers urged space and satellite executives to pay closer attention to the details of their structured business plans if they want to gain financial backing for space ventures. Wall […]

NEW YORK–As consolidation sweeps the global economy, the satellite and space industry will continue to follow suit with the formation of new consortia and individual corporate streamlining in hopes of […]

Amsterdam-based MirCorp inaugurated its Citizen Explorer Program, which soon may provide the first commercial manned flight opportunity for private citizens. Dennis Tito, a 59-year-old California millionaire is slated to become […]

Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., which specializes in distributing Internet content by satellite, has been selected by Road Runner, a cable TV Internet service, to supply its service to Road […]