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The future of Germany’s pay-TV market might lie in the hands of BSkyB. There is growing speculation in the German media industry about the consequences of a clause which is...

Radhakrishna Rao, Interspace’s correspondent in Bangalore, India, delivers a timely overview of the current prospects for DTH India is not a newcomer to the area of direct satellite broadcasting technology....

Two reports on UK digital TV offer mixed views of future take up. One somewhat pessimistic report from Optimedia suggests that digital take-up in the UK is about to dramatically...

EchoStar Communications added around 495,000 new subscribers to its DISH Network DTH television service during the fourth quarter of 2000, a 16 per cent increase on Q4 1999. It ended...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D=Digital A=Analogue 68.5°E: PAS-4 & 7 A Simaye Azadi Iranian National TV has launched on 11170MHz horizontal in clear...

BSkyB’s chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein, speaking at the Financial Times broadcasting conference, accused the UK government’s policymakers of “a deliberate unwillingness to understand what the digital satellite proposition is...

Arianespace has delayed the launch of Flight 140, Eutelsat’s ‘Eurobird’ craft destined for 28.5 degrees East. Eurobird is delayed until the evening of March 8 “in order to conduct some...

Swiss commercial broadcaster Tele 24 has received a licence to launch a financial news channel. Money 24 will be Switzerland’s first domestic channel concentrating on financial news and information and...

Intelsat is providing a full duplex Ku-band OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) link to China over its 174 degrees East satellite slot, in order to restore service to millions of Internet users...

PanAmSat Corporation’s PAS-1R satellite – the replacement for the world’s first commercial international communications spacecraft PAS-1 – is now in place at its permanent orbital slot at 45 degrees West...