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German public broadcaster ARD has launched its main domestic television channel, Das Erste, on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite system on 13 degrees East, as revealed exclusively in Interspace 705. Since...

France Telecom is changing one of its satellite slots, with Télécom 2C leaving its orbital slot at 3 degrees East, on which the satellite has been positioned since its launch...

Reborn Luxembourg-based company Europe Online Networks SA, which now describes itself as a “provider of interactive entertainment services”, has launched in its first prime marketing area of Germany, choosing Berlin...

Television Par Satelite (TPS) is France’s ‘other’ digital direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay-TV system. While rival Canal Plus boasts a total 6.7 million French subscribers, TPS achieved its first million in...

Poland has been at the forefront of developments in Central and Eastern Europe’s television industry since the region returned to democracy a decade ago, writes Chris Dziadul. Having begun the...

Key D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – Two horse racing channels entitled SKY1 and SKY2 can be seen on 3565MHz horizontal, SR 5000, FEC...

A group of local investors is leading a consortium putting $30 million (E34.23 m) into a new 10,000sq metre studio facility at Dubai’s newly-established Media City. Certain key contracts have...

EM.TV & Merchandising, the Munich-based media company whose portfolio of assets includes the evergreen Muppet Show and rights to the sale of Sesame Street, was rescued from almost certain liquidation...

Ukraine has officially announced that it will launch a digital DTH platform in mid 2001. Speaking exclusively to Interspace, Olexander Zinchenko from the Supreme Council of Ukraine revealed that the...

Intelsat’s board of governors has agreed to solicit proposals for its next generation, multibeam, high capacity, broadband satellite system. The company said it expects to spend more than $1.5 billion...