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Mediaset, the largest commercial broadcaster in Italy, has announced that it plans to significantly reduce costs in 2002. Mediaset CEO Giulano Adreani said in an interview with Italian daily Il...

Tiscali, Europe’s largest alternative Internet service provider (ISP), has launched a three-month trial of a two-way satellite service in the United Kingdom as it looks for ways to derive greater...

The successful Kourou launch of Insat 3C on an Ariane 4 (model 42L) rocket (Insat 3C was initially planned to launch on an Ariane 5 series) means there are only...

Dutch composite channel BVN-TV was scheduled to go on air over southern Africa on Feb. 1, in time for the royal wedding between Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander and Maxima...

Thuraya last week signed what it described as a landmark agreement signalling its full acceptance of a $1 billion (1.2 billion euro) turnkey project for a new Thuraya satellite telephony...

Broadband access revenue derived from satellite service providers in Europe is likely to be close on $2 billion in 2008. That is according to a major study by Pioneer Consulting...

KirchPayTV’s Premiere World admitted last week that it had signed up fewer new subscribers than expected in 2001. “Growth was below our expectations,” said Premiere CFO Michael Boernicke in a...

Despite its new Convergence Bill enacted last year (and due to be in place this mid-summer) India still does not see DTH transmission as a likely prospect for 2002, according...

The Oslo Court of Execution and Enforcement has thrown out claims by Canal Plus relating to payment issues concerning the sale of Canal Digital. The ruling made on January 11...

Last year was a tough one for niche broadcasters with many channels (Money Channel, Simply Money, Rapture, Carlton Taste, Wellbeing, dbc/u>direct, computer channel .tv) giving up after recognising that making...