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A new multi-lingual satellite TV channel aimed at the Mediterranean region will be launched at the end of January or the beginning of February, according to RAI president Roberto Zaccaria. […]

The marketing of DirecTv Latin America’s DBS service in six key South American countries is expected to get a big kick with the acquisition of exclusive broadcast rights to World […]

Using the name of world renowned physicist Albert Einstein as a teaser, TV-web channel Einstein.tv believes its desire “to feed hungry minds” will help it compete in the crowded universe […]

In this case the term ‘Disco’ comes from investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) and its pre-Christmas report on BSkyB and its analysis of Sky’s two key sub- divisions […]

Key: A – Analogue D – Digital 75 degreesE: LMI-1 D The Ukrainian radio multiplex continues to be observed on 12569MHz vertical. The bouquet contains ten radio stations, RadioRetro – […]

Media Most boss Vladimir Gusinski was granted bail by Madrid authorities ahead of Christmas, and on December 26 his Media Most company won a minor victory in Moscow when a […]

The new U.S. President and Congress should adopt space policies to address five key areas of concern, Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] CEO David Thompson told the Washington Space Business Roundtable […]

Cidera Inc., the satellite-based, Internet broadcast delivery company, has withdrawn its applications to the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $57.5 million through an IPO. It is done much better […]

Comsat Mobile Communications (CMC) said it has launched a new service for ship management, energy exploration companies and government agencies – Direct Internet Access — which eliminates the need to […]

Intelsat said its Board of Governors has agreed to solicit proposals for its next-generation, multibeam, high-capacity, broadband satellite system. The organization said it expects to spend more than $1.5 billion […]

A group of local investors is leading a consortium putting $30 million (E34.23 m) into a new 10,000sq metre studio facility at Dubai’s newly-established Media City. Certain key contracts have […]

EM.TV & Merchandising, the Munich-based media company whose portfolio of assets includes the evergreen Muppet Show and rights to the sale of Sesame Street, was rescued from almost certain liquidation […]

Ukraine has officially announced that it will launch a digital DTH platform in mid 2001. Speaking exclusively to Interspace, Olexander Zinchenko from the Supreme Council of Ukraine revealed that the […]

Intelsat’s board of governors has agreed to solicit proposals for its next generation, multibeam, high capacity, broadband satellite system. The company said it expects to spend more than $1.5 billion […]

Broadband high-speed Internet via satellite service skyDSL, operated by German ISP Strato, has moved from DFS Kopernikus 2 FM 2 (28.5 degrees East) to the more powerful Télécom 2D satellite […]

German multimedia company Global Electronic Transfer (GET) and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have formed a long-term technical co-operation. The firm based in Oberhaching near Munich intends to bring 1 million units […]

Italian business channel Class Financial Network has released figures that show that on average 630,000 viewers tune in daily to its programmes, while advertising revenues during its first year of […]

German public broadcaster ARD has launched its main domestic television channel, Das Erste, on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite system on 13 degrees East, as revealed exclusively in Interspace 705. Since […]

France Telecom is changing one of its satellite slots, with Télécom 2C leaving its orbital slot at 3 degrees East, on which the satellite has been positioned since its launch […]

Reborn Luxembourg-based company Europe Online Networks SA, which now describes itself as a “provider of interactive entertainment services”, has launched in its first prime marketing area of Germany, choosing Berlin […]

Television Par Satelite (TPS) is France’s ‘other’ digital direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay-TV system. While rival Canal Plus boasts a total 6.7 million French subscribers, TPS achieved its first million in […]

Poland has been at the forefront of developments in Central and Eastern Europe’s television industry since the region returned to democracy a decade ago, writes Chris Dziadul. Having begun the […]

Key D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – Two horse racing channels entitled SKY1 and SKY2 can be seen on 3565MHz horizontal, SR 5000, FEC […]

The European Commission said it has approved Eutelsat’s proposed restructuring into a private company, including the IPO of 30 percent of its shares within two years of its privatization. The […]

Saab Ericsson Space and Stork N.V., aerospace companies in Sweden and The Netherlands, respectively, have agreed to buy Fokker Space, one of the other Dutch suppliers to the space industry. […]

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES), operator of the Astra system, has ordered its tenth satellite, the Astra 3A, from the Boeing Satellite Systems subsidiary of The Boeing Co. [BA], formerly […]

Closer attention to detail, open dialogue from project beginning to project end throughout all mission levels and proper knowledge transference topped the list of actions to be adopted for future […]

Two employees of Lockheed Martin Comsat Mobile Communications’ earth station at Southbury, Conn., were recognized recently by the U.S. Coast Guard for coordinating emergency communications that helped to save the […]

Flash Networks Inc. of Holmdel, N.J., a supplier of data optimization and acceleration solutions, said it will provide its technology to Norsat International Inc. [NSAT] of Burnaby, British Columbia, a […]

Norsat International Inc. [NSAT] said it plans to sell its Norsat America Inc. wholly owned subsidiary in order to intensify its focus on its broadband and VSAT businesses. It has […]