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At Satexpo, the annual forum for satellite broadcasting held in Vicenza, Italy, the winners were announced of this year’s Hot Bird TV Awards. Organised by Eutelsat in collaboration with Eurovisioni,...

Eutelsat’s Eurobird (planned for 28.5 degrees East) is not due for launch until around February 2001, but is already creating interest amongst independent, that is non- affiliated, broadcasters. For example,...

German public radio and television broadcaster ARD intends to distribute its main domestic TV channel, Das Erste, on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite system at 13 degrees East. According to industry...

The pack of satellite broadcasters in the Middle East region – both pay and free-to-air – risk “bleeding to death” unless they come together in some sort of common platform,...

RTL Television, Germany’s leading commercial TV broadcaster, intends to add multimedia applications like e-mail, home shopping and home banking to its digital package on Astra (19.2 degrees East), transponder 89...

The Boeing Co.’s [BA] third-quarter earnings rose to $609 million, or 70 cents per share, on revenues of $11.88 billion. The result compares with a profit of $477 million, or...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded RadarSat International (RSI) the rights to distribute ERS and Envisat satellite data worldwide. “This contract gives us an excellent opportunity to build the...

At 8:40 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]-built Atlas 2A rocket soared into space from Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Less than 30...

Inetcable.com Inc. of Ottawa, an applications service provider, has selected BroadLogic Network Technologies Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., to supply it with BroadLogic’s Satellite Express desktop satellite receiver so it can...

Globalstar [GSTRF] and Arnav Systems Inc. of Puyallup, Wash., said Arnav will use the Globalstar system to provide satellite-based voice and data communications to the general aviation market. General aviation...