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During 1999 the European audience for digital DTH/SMATV television grew by 4.1 million homes, taking the total to 7.67 million, spread over 22 European countries, according to research compiled by […]

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 […]

Merlin Communications has entered into a partnership with the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) to launch a new service aimed at Asian satellite operators. Born out of 20 […]

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 […]

DAL (Drake Automation) has won a contract to build new TV production and playout centres in Budapest and Prague for Wizja TV’s proposed Hungarian and Czech services, due to launch […]

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, […]

Pace Micro Technology has signed an MoU with Microsoft to co-operate on the development of applications and enabling technologies for digital TV. Microsoft is to adopt Pace’s set top technology […]

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 […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C A – Indian state television Doordarshan has launched a new channel for the Gujarat region of northern India. DD […]

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 […]

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Bulgarian TV (BTV) the first-ever private nationwide TV broadcaster in the country, will go on air June 1, initially for just two hours a day. The […]

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 studios of Media Most’s NTV+ were ‘occupied’ by members of Russia’s tax police on May 16, and just four days after President Putin was elected. The timing was unfortunate […]

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 […]

The Prague District Commercial Court has ruled that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its directly-owned subsidiary CNTS, along with the licence holder CET21 of the TV Nova broadcasting network, […]

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 […]

Canal+ is reporting consolidated revenues of Eur927 million for the first quarter of 2000, representing a gain of 23.6 per cent from the same period in 1999. For the first […]

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 […]

GOES L, the fourth in the current generation of advanced, geostationary weather satellites, was launched May 3 aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. The launch was delayed about one year because […]

In a move that will boost the GPS industry and worldwide confidence in the U.S. system at a critical time, President Clinton announced May 1 that he ordered an end […]

The Japanese Ministry of Transport and the Japanese Meteorological Agency have begun their procurement of a second satellite in their new series of MTSat combined air traffic control and weather […]

Raytheon Co. [RTNA] has won a contract to provide the Advanced Meteorological Imager for Japan’s MTSat 1R, a combined weather and air traffic control satellite for the Japanese Ministry of […]

Business development executives seeking profits from the Internet-via-satellite marketplace need to focus on e-commerce opportunities in the right geographic locations if projections are accurate according to a new study. Currently, […]

Air travel soon will become more pleasurable. At least that is the hope of The Boeing Co. [BA] officials who, on April 27, unveiled a new business segment. Called Connexion […]

AssureSat Inc., a company established to provide satellites in orbit to step in when there is a launch failure or a satellite already in service fails, has awarded Space Systems/Loral […]

In the last issue of Mobile Satellite News, Dennis Billard, vice president at Telesat Canada was quoted as citing market estimations for broadband services to reach $37 billion in revenues […]

Global VSAT Forum 2000: LATIN AMERICA will be this year’s only worldwide VSAT industry meeting devoted to examination of the VSAT industry’s growth and opportunities in Latin America. The meeting […]

EMS Technologies Inc. of Norcross, Ga., [LMG] has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of a Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES)/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used […]

Laurel, Md.-based Cidera Inc. (formerly SkyCache Inc.) an Internet backbone, announced last week that Telenor, Norway’s leading telecom, has reached an agreement to use Cidera’s satellite-delivered Usenet News service. The […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said roaming service is now available to its subscribers between almost 30 countries in North and South America and Europe, where Globalstar gateways are in full operation. […]