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Swiss publishing house Ringier can take a stake in Sat 1 Schweiz AG, the company which has been producing a window for Swiss cable viewers as part of the German-based...

BT Broadcast Services has contracted to supply France’s TF1 (and its news channel La Chaine Info) with a dedicated satellite transmission network. BT will use Intelsat 801 and will provide...

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has plenty of reasons to celebrate the year that is closing, which brought it new shareholders as well as very encouraging subscriber figures. According to figures...

Inmarsat’s board of directors has decided to proceed with the building of its fourth generation system at a cost of $1.4 billion. Requests for proposals have now been issued. As...

Wide differences have emerged in the take-up of digital television between different social segments, according to the University of Leeds’s Centre for Future Communications. Research director Michael Svennevig told a...

Kirch Group has arranged credit facilities amounting to DM3 billion (Euro1.5 billion) for financing its digital pay-TV venture Premiere World. According to a statement issued by Kirch Pay-TV last week,...

United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) may seek a merger between its Polish cable and DTH platform @Entertainment and rival Canal Plus Polska, according to UPC president Mark Schneider. "The future for...

The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia said on November 26 that it was preparing to shut down a Bosnian Croat television station if negotiations with the body overseeing the...

Middle East broadcaster ART may abandon the pay-TV business… Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has confirmed to Interspace that it may quit pay-TV. While no decision has...

Viasat Broadcasating, radio and publishing are the top performing business areas in Modern Times Group’s third quarter results, just released. Net sales across the Swedish-based company increased from SKr2,613 million...