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Youth channel Rapture has joined the Sky Digital line up on Astra, increasing its carriage by a third to approximately 5.7 million homes including analogue satellite and cable. Rapture, owned […]

Telenor is upgrading its presence in the UK with a move to new offices that will also include its own uplink facilities. The new offices in Bernard Street, central London, […]

Two channels for France specialising in tourism, but with very different approaches, are on the launch pad. VTV International, based in Madrid, has launched Tele Vacances in France. The channel […]

A new satellite market study (Handbook of Satellite Services in Europe, Microcom Systems Pounds 285) suggests the recent problems affecting Iridium and ICO Global Communications will have a short-term effect […]

Regional Czech satellite TV station Galaxie started transmissions on November 18 on satellite and cable according to local reports. It has also been reported that channel could be a target […]

The proposed merger between Carlton Communications and United News & Media (UN&M) – besides managing to infuriate both BSkyB and Granada – could bring together two UK broadcasters with a […]

The Adam Faith-backed Money Channel, due on air in February, reported losses for its first half-year Pounds 638,000 for the six months to September 30, in line with company expectations. […]

Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu is facing major problems in supplying its new subscribers with the Goldbox receivers needed to receive its digital bouquet. In order to resolve the problem, Telepiu […]

Japan’s ministry of transport lost its multi-functional Transport Satellite on November 15 when its H-II launcher suffered a first stage shut-down four minutes after lift-off. The 2.9 tonne MTSat-1 was […]

Wide differences have emerged in the take-up of digital television between different social segments, according to the University of Leeds’s Centre for Future Communications. Research director Michael Svennevig told a […]

Kirch Group has arranged credit facilities amounting to DM3 billion (Euro1.5 billion) for financing its digital pay-TV venture Premiere World. According to a statement issued by Kirch Pay-TV last week, […]

United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) may seek a merger between its Polish cable and DTH platform @Entertainment and rival Canal Plus Polska, according to UPC president Mark Schneider. "The future for […]

Middle East broadcaster ART may abandon the pay-TV business… Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has confirmed to Interspace that it may quit pay-TV. While no decision has […]

Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. Sima-yeh Moghavemat, the Iranian opposition TV channel that is licensed by the ITC in the UK, […]

Globalstar successfully launched an additional four LEO satellites on November 22 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, bringing the total number of Globalstar satellites now in space to 48 and […]

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for […]

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new […]

Iran is to set up a space organisation with either Chinese or Indian help, according the deputy post, telegraph and telephone minister, Mehdi Tabeshian, speaking at the second international conference […]

by Stephane Chenard One of the most exciting trends in satellite broadcasting is the use of digital technology to distribute niche programming to television viewers around the world. Thanks to […]

by Peter J. Brown A global transformation is under way as rural villages and remote enterprises are tapping into the global telecommunications revolution. This huge rural market, previously unserved or […]

by Theresa Foley The meltdown of the mobile satellite services (MSS) sector during the summer of 1999 may turn out to be less than a total catastrophe in the months […]

Satellite projects appear to figure prominently in Cyprus Telecommunications Authority’s (CYTA) strategy to move quickly beyond the confines of Cyprus, and finding the right MSS project in which to invest […]

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Although the next ITU world radiocommunication conference is not scheduled until 2000, the Conference Preparatory Meeting or "CPM" for WRC-2000 is going on late this […]

by Robert A. Nelson On a recent trip to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I flew from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles on a new Boeing 747-400 airplane. The geographical […]

by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger According to market research firm Analysys, by 2012 the worldwide broadband, or bandwidth-on- demand, market is expected to total $990 billion (versus about $195 […]

Investment analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter say they expect BSkyB to achieve total digital sales of 2.4 million by the end of December. BSkyB’s net additions in the last […]

An alliance made up of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Telecom Italia and German media magnate Leo Kirch may yet be the white knight that will save fledgling Italian TV network […]

A&E’s History Channel is expected shortly to confirm three new distribution agreements for the Asian and Far East region. Whitney Goit, executive vice president, A&E TV Networks, said the three […]

German media company Pro Sieben Group managed to increase turnover and profit during the first nine months of this year. Profit before tax climbed by DM10.3 million (Euro5.3 million) to […]

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported a record 120 per cent increase in subscribers to its digital platform for June. At the same time, Stream has announced that Corrado Sciolla […]