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While Orbit struggles to drive subscriber numbers, new players such as Etisalat are preparing to enter the Middle Eastern multichannel broadcasting business. Interspace surveys current developments… On top of the […]

Key: D=Digital, A=Analog 78.5 degrees E: Thaicom-2&3 D. Two Pakistani channels, PTV World and PTV Sports have launched on 3420 MHz vertical, SR 6666, FEC 3/4 in free-to-air MPEG-2. As […]

Alcatel Spacecom vice-president Alain Roger has signed shareholder agreements with Luis Escobar, CEO of Andesat, establishing the creation of Bolivar*Sat. This is a new joint venture for providing telecommunications, broadcasting, […]

MTV Italia is one step closer to being forced off the air following the October 6 announcement by the Italian telecommunications authority that home shopping channel H.O.T. Italia fulfills ownership […]

Middle East platform Orbit is said to be ending its commitment to Telecom Italia uplink division Telespazio. Altaf Alimohamed, chief executive of Star Select, which shares the Orbit platform, confirmed […]

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Earlier this year, the FCC published a guide to the regulatory principles the agency has dealt with over the years. Connecting the Globe: A Regulator’s […]

by Cynthia Boeke The recent spate of launch failures and in-orbit anomalies may have cast a shadow over much of the satellite industry, but one company has found a silver […]

by Theresa Foley The coming wave of Ka-band satellite systems promises to alter the economics of the satellite business radically. Some of the new systems will have technologies that will […]

by Marc Crossman About a year ago, Iridium was set to make its debut as the world’s first provider of mobile satellite telecommunications services. The mobile satellite services (MSS) sector […]

Business television in the United Kingdom and Europe grew from 14 networks in 1992 to more than 80 in 1998. Here, BTV is concentrated in the automotive, financial services and […]

by Peter Brown Satellites and multimedia are coming together in a very compelling fashion. The explosive demand for multimedia-based content-both in the public and private sectors-is having an impact on […]

by Theresa Foley As the new century approaches, the satellite industry is facing a rebirth with the dawning of the age of the global mega-operator, a phenomenon that promises to […]

by Katie McConnell With more companies merging and expanding business to various regions of the world, getting together is becoming problematic. With the economics of flying people to a central […]

Nickelodeon may launch pre-school channel Noggin as a block within Nick Jr channel in the UK, managing director Karen Flischel has told Interspace. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon itself will launch in India […]

Italian public broadcaster RAI has signed several deals with leading Italian media groups for the launch of new digital TV channels for Telepiu’s digital platform D+. A preliminary accord was […]

Italy’s Mediaset is set to close negotiations with Germany’s Kirch Media by the end of October, with the official launch of their joint pan-European TV network, tentatively called Euroset, by […]

Scandinavian Broadcasting System’s (SBS) $615 million takeover of troubled Central European Media Enterprises (CME) hit the buffers last week. SBS’ COO Woody Knight said SBS had watched with increasing concern […]

BSkyB has signed a deal with Hallmark Entertainment Network that will see a UK version of the family-oriented channel launch on Sky Digital early next year. The channel initially will […]

ICO Global Communications has undergone a number of senior personnel changes aimed at reversing the company’s fortunes. An ICO spokesman said the company’s deputy chief executive officer, Fredrik Verkroost, and […]

The merger between Nordic telcos Telia and Telenor, expected to be approved by the European Commission this week, is not expected to have a major impact on Telenor’s satellite activities. […]

As the clock ticks to the October-scheduled launch of Orion 2, destined for the 12 degrees West mid-Atlantic position, there is no sign of any agreement between the satellite’s operator, […]

German public broadcaster ZDF will partner ARD and Deutsche Welle (DW) in a relaunched worldwide German television channel. ZDF’s board gave the green light to its participation at its meeting […]

Telefonica has formed new company to look after its media interests. Jose Antonio Rios, president and CEO of Telefonica Media, a new company formed just one week ago, announced in […]

Supported by a tremendous marketing campaign costing DM100 million (pounds 33 million), German media company Kirch Group launched its digital package Premiere World on October 1 in Germany and Austria, […]

Tony Ball, BSkyB’s new CEO, barely three months into the job, has said that he is making "significant changes" into each of BSkyB’s operating divisions. "There is now one marketing […]

Eutelsat has published the results of a study of French satellite homes carried out on its behalf by Credome. At the end of June 1999 it found a total of […]

Canal Plus reported its half-year results on September 22. Chairman Pierre Lescure said the full year results would show an improvement in the aggregate contribution from overseas earnings, but that […]

BSkyB spent almost pounds 50 million on above the line advertising in the year May 1998-April 1999, according to data from MMS/Mediapolis, massively outspending rivals ONdigital whose expenditure came in […]

The UK’s Pace Micro Technology has released some findings from its latest survey into the attitudes of consumers to digital television, The Pace Report 2000. The results gave some comfort […]

Key: A = Analog D= Digital 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. The Asian version of Sony Entertainment Television is occasionally testing on 3925 MHz horizontal in clear Pal. […]