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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...

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...

GAME ONE CHANGES TACK

One and a half years after its launch, Game One, the games channel owned jointly by Canal Plus and electronic games publisher Infogrames, is changing tack and has secured considerable...

UNIVERSAL SUES KIRCH

Hollywood movie studio Universal has lodged a complaint against Kirch Group. Universal accuses the Munich-based media company of breach of contract and is claiming compensation for damages. With its lawsuit...

SHOWTIME PREPARES TO EXPAND

Middle-Eastern platform Showtime, aiming to hit up to 200,000 subscribers by the end of the year, is now looking to expand, Showtime’s president Peter Einstein talked to Interspace about his...

ITC RAPS FLEXTECH

Complaints about a programme on Flextech-owned Bravo were upheld by the ITC this week. Real TV broadcast in October showed a story where a 13 year-old boy died in a...