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Two regional TV channels from North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s largest state, will launch on satellite next year. Media authority LfR last week granted satellite licences to NRW 1, Privat TV and […]

Kids Europe Announces IPO Fox Kids Europe announced its Initial Public Offering the week before last. The offering is expected to close before Christmas. According to preliminary information, Fox Kids’ […]

Hackers have apparently managed to crack the encryption systems of most Europe’s major pay-TV operators, according to a report in weekly German news magazine Focus. The magazine said in a […]

TPS has introduced a second decoder option, called Option Confort, to enable different members of the same household to watch different programmes on the TPS bouquet or to record one […]

Norway’s Canal Digital is launching yet another service in its four Nordic territories of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The newcomer, which will launch on November 8, is Cinecinemas, managed […]

The second failure of a Proton launcher in four months, and with it the loss of a satellite Russia badly needed, has left the hard pressed Russian satellite communications industry […]

Key: D = Digital A = Analog 105.5 degrees E: Asiasat-3S A. Zee TV has launched a new, exclusively Punjabi-language channel called Alpha Punjabi on 3900 MHz vertical in clear […]

Leo Kirch’s digital pay-TV package Premiere World is to get some unexpected competition: Dusseldorf-based media house Rheinische Post plans to enter the German pay-TV market. Media company Deutsche Fernsehnachrich-ten Agentur […]

National Geographic Television has added another UK digital channel, Adventure 1, from November 1. A company spokesman said the material is expected to attract younger viewers than its existing National […]

Fox Kids Poland will extend its transmission hours from November 20, closing at 2200 hrs. At the same time new station idents come into use. Fox’s Polish service now claims […]

TVE Tematica, the company Spanish public broadcaster Television Espanola (TVE) created two years ago to make channels for Via Digital when TVE had a 15 per cent of the digital […]

Simon Bazelgette, CEO of Music Choice Europe (MCE), has said he is in advanced discussions with Kirch Group’s Premiere World bouquet. MCE was dropped from DF1 earlier this year. "It […]

CNN International will use December 31 to bring together what it describes as the "global village" with 100 hours of live coverage of the worldwide millennium celebrations. From the popping […]

As reported in the last issue of Interspace, The Money Channel has secured a long-term carriage contract on Sky Digital, with a launch date fixed for February 7. Money will […]

The long-awaited addition of radio services to the Sky Digital platform will take place around November 15 when 20 stations are added. The BBC will add 12 services, enabling listeners […]

A year ago News Corp was ahead of Hughes-owned DirecTV in terms of global customers. News Corp. commanded 29.7 per cent of all satellite pay-TV subscribers, compared with DirecTV’s 26.6 […]

Italian broadcaster Mediaset may extend its alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group to include pay-TV, according to Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti. Commenting on rumours that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Canal […]

Armand Carlier, CEO of Matra Marconi Space (MMS), has claimed the long-running problems with Matra’s solar arrays were "now sorted out; we know where the problem lies… and how to […]

After two recent closures, the German-language satellite radio offering available on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) is set to gain an additional participant: Virus, the youth radio planned […]

CEO Bernard Schwartz launched the soft-rollout of Globalstar, the second GMPCS (Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite) operator at Telecom 99, with the message that "the other guys aren’t of […]

Italian digital operator Stream is set to boost its pay-TV bouquet with the addition of several new channels in the coming months. Two new football channels aimed at fans of […]

Germany’s satellite market will see three new entrants if the Frankfurt-based regional media authority approves new licence applications. Dogan Media International, the German sister company of the Turkish Dogan group, […]

Kirch Group’s digital pay-TV operator Premiere World and MTV Networks Europe have reached a compromise, ending the conflict over the removal of MTV and VH-1 from the digital platform after […]

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 […]