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German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World has extended its promotional offer in which the d-box, the set-top-box needed to receive the package, is sold for roughly half its regular price....

The second plenary, on the European Galileo satellite navigation programme, was held shortly after the successful second meeting of the EC’s Transport Council (see Interspace 717), where initial funding was...

Euro 1, a pay-TV service for foreigners living in Germany, is close to receiving its long-awaited broadcast licence. According to the local media authority of regional state Bremen, the channel,...

Middle East pay-TV is at another crossroads. In March both Showtime and Arab Radio & Television (ART) re-launched their digital bouquets, while Orbit is about to switch from its so-called...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – A new digital platform for the...

Russia’s NTV is now wholly under new management, headed by Boris Jordan. He claims that some $750 million is unaccountably “missing” from the station’s total debt burden of $1.6 billion....

Pace Micro Technology Americas has reached an agreement with NET SAT, Brazil’s largest satellite operator, and Gradiente, a manufacturers of electronic consumer goods in the Brazilian market, to provide 40,000...

PanAmSat Corporation says its new PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite has arrived in Kazakhstan in preparation for its May launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. PAS-10 will be sent into space...

Basque Country-based regional channel EiTB is now reaching the whole of Europe via the Astra satellite system. The channel started test transmissions on April 23 distributing the signal of TV...

Irdeto Access has sealed its first sale in Japan and will supply its M-Crypt DVB conditional access system to Astem Co Ltd. The Japanese company will use the Irdeto system...