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GLOBALSTAR OPENS GATEWAY IN VENEZUELA

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] service partner Telecommunications par Satellites Mobiles (TE.SA.M.) opened the newest Globalstar gateway in Los Velasquez, Venezuela, bringing the total number of fully operational gateways to 13. The...

MTG STAYS IN THE BLACK

Modern Times Group stayed in the black for the financial year 1999. “During the two last years we have produced a swing of more than half a billion kronar from...

BETTING VIA CANALSATELLITE

Canalsatellite made a flurry of announcements at the Milia event in Cannes (February 14-18) concerning its interactive services. A service for betting on horse races is to launch in April,...

CANAL HORIZONS FOR ALGERIA

Canal+ Horizons, the Canal Plus channel for Africa and the Middle East, is to launch a digital platform for Algeria, transmitting from Hotbird. The bouquet will contain 17 channels to...

MEDIASET TAKES CFN STAKE

Italian private TV group Mediaset on February 6 bought a 10 per cent stake in business news channel Class Financial Network (CFN), backed by financial publisher Class Editori and a...

TIME WARNER BUYS INTO CSD

Time Warner has bought a 10 per cent stake in Canal Satélite Digital (CSD), putting an end to speculation that Canal Satélite’s majority owner, Sogecable, planned to sell the platform...

ARTE TO START THEMATIC CHANNELS

La Sept/Arte, the French arm of the Franco-German arts channel Arte, is setting up unit for thematic channels, headed by Helene Mochiri. The first of these, in partnership with Robert...

CGG GETS NEW MANAGEMENT

Stream shareholder Cecchi Gori Group (CGG) has appointed Sebastiano Rigano as general director of its ailing TMC TV networks. Contrary to published reports, Vittorio Cecchi Gori will continue as president...

NEW BUSINESS MODEL DELAYS LUXSAT

Luxsat, which plans to offer a push-based service for distributing films and web content over satellite, has changed its tack. The original project was to broadcast films in encrypted form...

CANAL FREEZES TALKS WITH ENEL

French pay-TV operator Canal Plus has frozen negotiations with Italian electrical utility Enel to sell a 30 per cent stake in the French group’s Italian digital platform Telepiu. On February...