Featured Stories

ATTACK ON AMERICA BRINGS DEMAND FOR FEEDS

Demand for news prompts capacity scramble Mike Fallon Interspace Monitoring The tragic events of September 11 brought about the biggest ever satellite event when just about every TV broadcaster desperately...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D: Erotic channel Satisfaction Channel TV has...

NEWS BYTES

The tragic attack on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon became more personal for Boeing employees when it was confirmed that three of their colleagues, all with Boeing’s...

Finance for Satellite Communications

10,000 transponders in use by 2003 -Euroconsult guardedly optimistic Chris Bulloch Paris The Paris-based space consultancy Euroconsult kicked off its two-day conference on Financing for Satellite Communications and Broadcasting (August...

Transponder Monitor

Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D PTV World, PTV3 and PTV News...

News bytes

Discussions between News Corp and General Motors over the Hughes-owned DirecTV remained “difficult and inconclusive,” according to News Corp’s annual report issued last Friday. The report also showed that Rupert...

New Amos in planning

Even though Amos 2 is not expected to be launched until the winter of 2002-3, planning and outline development is taking place on a proposed Amos 3, according to sources...

Loral wins DirecTV bird

Despite the slow progress in determining its new owners, DirecTV showed no reluctance to put a brake on its own progress, and last week ordered a new craft from Space...

ORF announces figures for digital package

More than 75,000 households are receiving ORF’s two domestic television channels through the Austrian public broadcaster’s digital package on Astra (19.2 degrees East). According to a statement, the Vienna-based broadcaster,...