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Italy’s Communications Ministry has postponed a key decision on whether MTV Italia can retain the free-to-air terrestrial broadcasting licence that currently gives it access to millions of Italian TV homes....

Globalstar successfully launched an additional four LEO satellites on November 22 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, bringing the total number of Globalstar satellites now in space to 48 and...

Italian electricity utility Enel has received the necessary go-ahead from the EU to take a 30 per cent in Canal Plus-led digital platform Telepiu, but is facing criticism from leading...

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for...

Youth channel Rapture has joined the Sky Digital line up on Astra, increasing its carriage by a third to approximately 5.7 million homes including analogue satellite and cable. Rapture, owned...

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new...

Two regional TV channels from North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s largest state, will launch on satellite next year. Media authority LfR last week granted satellite licences to NRW 1, Privat TV and...

Kids Europe Announces IPO Fox Kids Europe announced its Initial Public Offering the week before last. The offering is expected to close before Christmas. According to preliminary information, Fox Kids’...

Hackers have apparently managed to crack the encryption systems of most Europe’s major pay-TV operators, according to a report in weekly German news magazine Focus. The magazine said in a...

TPS has introduced a second decoder option, called Option Confort, to enable different members of the same household to watch different programmes on the TPS bouquet or to record one...