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Ariane flight 127, Japan’s Superbird-4 craft, was successfully launched last Thursday, February 17. The Ariane 44LP rocket, equipped with two liquid and two solid strap-on boosters, blasted off at 2204...

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...

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, 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Satellite industry analysts are viewing the successful launch of the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) satellite, Garuda 1, as a promising sign for major backer PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara [PSNRY] of...