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CHANNEL MASTER BUYS CAMBRIDGE

Cambridge Industries, the Berkshire-based LNB manufacturer has been sold to the American owned dish manufacturer Channel Master for $35 million. The deal was put together by the 3i Technology Group,...

PACE SIGNS WITH MICROSOFT

Pace Micro Technology has signed an MoU with Microsoft to co-operate on the development of applications and enabling technologies for digital TV. Microsoft is to adopt Pace’s set top technology...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C A – Indian state television Doordarshan has launched a new channel for the Gujarat region of northern India. DD...

TV2 NORWAY SELLS CANAL DIGITAL SHARE

TV2, Norway’s leading commercial operation, and so far the only private station with a national terrestrial licence, is about too part with its 16 per cent ownership of Canal Digital...

MURDOCH CASH HELPS BULGARIAN TV

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Bulgarian TV (BTV) the first-ever private nationwide TV broadcaster in the country, will go on air June 1, initially for just two hours a day. The...

TF1 CONSIDERS BUYING STREAM STAKE

LEADING French commercial TV network TF1 is seriously considering the possibility of buying a stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream. TF1’s interest in Stream was confirmed on May 3 by...

GOV'T TROUBLE FOR RUSSIA'S MOST GROUP

The studios of Media Most’s NTV+ were ‘occupied’ by members of Russia’s tax police on May 16, and just four days after President Putin was elected. The timing was unfortunate...

AUSSIES PLAN LAUNCH SITE

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later...

CZECH/CME RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMED

The Prague District Commercial Court has ruled that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its directly-owned subsidiary CNTS, along with the licence holder CET21 of the TV Nova broadcasting network,...