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L-M wins Americom trio

Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract to build three satellites for GE American Communications, now in the final stages of being acquired by SES Astra. The new satellites will...

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...

Transponder Monitor

Compiled by Mike Fallon Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Staellite Activity D=Digital A=Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D The Anjuman Channel from Reminiscent Television has started on 3600MHz...

News Bytes

Tele 24, one of the two nationwide commercial TV channels in German-speaking Switzerland, will be closed down at the end of November. This decision was made by Zurich- based publishing...

Premiere World gains Nuremberg redundancy

In an aim to counteract signal blackouts and picture disturbances during extreme weather, heavy rainfalls or thunderstorms in Munich, Premiere World has installed a second uplink site in Nuremberg. The...

FSP takes SES Eurobird capacity

Plans by German service provider Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) to offer cable companies a bundled selection of foreign radio and TV channels for distribution to their subscribers have taken a step further....