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The satellite manufacturing industry has been dogged in recent months by execution problems, leading many manufacturers to take a long, hard look at themselves to improve quality of services. Randy...

Discovery Networks Europe has secured a five-year deal for direct-to-home (DTH) digital distribution in Poland with Nowa Cyfra Plus, the pay-TV broadcaster that resulted from the merger of Cyfra Plus...

No broadcaster needs reminding about how tough it was in 2001. Ad bookings were already under considerable pressure prior to Sept. 11. Then, on that awful day, the bottom just...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C D – A mass exodus of channels has occurred here as most of the activity transfers to the new...

Burma’s Myawady Television began using Indonesia’s Palapa C2 satellite March 1, a change which will save the company about $400,000 a year, according to the broadcaster. The channel has been...

Call for the building and commercialisation of a new satellite for Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus emerged from a ministerial meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Feb. 14. According to a memorandum...

Reports are emerging that Chinese authorities are cracking down on the illegal use of satellite dishes. Shanghai is a particular focus of attention. Dish-ownership is tightly controlled and so-called “work...

Debt-strapped satellite, transmission and cable company NTL is quitting Australia, selling out its 578 towers to Macquarie Bank for A$850 million (US$439 million) in cash. NTL bought Australia’s National Transmission...

Aramiska’s assault on the continental European broadband satellite markets is set to begin in earnest. The operator, which is already selling satellite broadband services in the UK, is getting ready...

Valentine’s Day represented a special day for the digital audio radio service (DARS) sector with a somewhat soft marketing launch of Sirius’ system in Phoenix, Houston, Denver and Jackson, Miss.....