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Cable and Satellite Mediacast said goodbye to Earls Court with a near flourish The last Cable and Satellite Mediacast to be held at Earls Court (May 15-17) will probably be […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A D – REN TV from Russia has launched a […]

Suez-Lyonnaise, which owns 25 per cent of French pay-TV digital satellite platform TPS, has offered to acquire the 25 per cent in the digital platform held by terrestrial channel TF1. […]

Internet company Europe Online and the video-on-demand free broadcaster IchooseTV.com have formed a strategic alliance. The Europe Online network is carried on the Astra Satellite System and the new partnership […]

SES has appointed Martin Halliwell to the newly created position of director of communications technology. He will also serve as a member of the management committee. Halliwell will be responsible […]

Film and video distributor Metrodome, is set to move into streaming video on the Web through a joint venture with the Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), the PPV group which broadcasts […]

Few entrepreneurs have succeeded in achieving the full potential of commercial space. In the wake of the Mars mission and Iridium LLC failures, industry pioneers have realized the right combination […]

A Boeing Co. [BA] Delta 2 launcher has replaced one of the first U.S Global Positioning System satellites, which was launched aboard another Delta rocket 11 years ago. The launch […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a $9.6 million contract to AlliedSignal Technical Services Corp., for engineering services to support the agency’s environmental satellites. The services will be […]

A Canadian proposal to protect emissions into the GPS bands by mobile satellite services (MSS) operating in adjacent bands came as a surprise to the U.S. delegation last week at […]

Inmarsat awarded its fourth-generation (I-4) satellite contract – for three satellites worth about $700 million – to newly formed Astrium, previously Matra Marconi Space. The satellites will be able to […]

Working with the government on any project, naturally, poses unique challenges to commercial business developers. But after closely working with the U.S. Air Force for eight months, executives at TRW […]

As the Boeing Co.’s [BA] Connexion By Boeing venture to provide satellite-based services to airline passengers gears up for its 2001 North American rollout (SBN, May 10), executives at Airbus […]

Tachyon Inc., which specializes in high-performance, two-way satellite connections for Internet service providers, has chosen five companies as its first resale partners. The five ISPs are: Knoware, an ISP in […]

Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., announced that it will work with Intel Internet Media Services to optimize the distribution, performance and scalability of streaming content via the Internet. Intel explained […]

The Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) subsidiary of ATC Teleports Inc. has purchased the C-band satellite communications assets of a competitor, CruisePhone, which is in financial reorganization under the U.S. Bankruptcy […]

Critics of Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] have one less thing to complain about, at least in the United States, as Globalstar USA announced that customers now will be able to roam […]

Inmarsat awarded its fourth-generation (I-4) satellite contract – for three satellites worth about $700 million – to Astrium, previously Matra Marconi Space. The satellites will be able to communicate with […]

While many are looking to the satellite industry to fill the need for last mile distribution of Internet content, satellites may serve a greater role in the Internet space. According […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] last week absorbed its latest loss when it reported first quarter 2000 earnings, but company officials said that a shift to conservative accounting principles deepened the […]

The Jordanian government has started fleshing out its plans to establish a free media zone in the Kingdom, officials said on May 4. Minister of Culture and Information Salih Qallab […]

Multichoice has confirmed it will start a digital service to sub-Saharan Africa using Eutelsat (Interspace 692). The service will launch late June 2000, following the deployment and testing of the […]

Cambridge Industries, the Berkshire-based LNB manufacturer has been sold to the American owned dish manufacturer Channel Master for $35 million. The deal was put together by the 3i Technology Group, […]

NO NAME yet for the UK’s very own answer to AOL-Time Warner – the merged Telewest-Flextech. However, ever-reticent CEO Adam Singer has revealed that in his view the worst suggestion […]

TV2, Norway’s leading commercial operation, and so far the only private station with a national terrestrial licence, is about too part with its 16 per cent ownership of Canal Digital […]

LEADING French commercial TV network TF1 is seriously considering the possibility of buying a stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream. TF1’s interest in Stream was confirmed on May 3 by […]

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later […]

COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support […]

SPANISH digital satellite platform Via Digital, in partnership with Telefonica’s Internet portal Terra Networks, is carrying out tests with a view to launching a high-speed Internet access service through the […]

NEW launch TV4 is reaching 61 per cent of Polish television households since its launch on April 1. TV4, which has acquired the satellite and terrestrial feeds from Nasza TV […]