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Jerry Glover, managing director of National Geographic Channel Europe, has left the company to become commercial director at Yahoo! Europe. He is replaced by veteran channel specialist John O’Loan, who...

Sharp contrasts between the viewing patterns of DF1 subscribers compared to their Premiere counterparts have emerged ahead of the merger between the two platforms. The information was revealed by Premiere...

Still suffering from the aftershocks of the Asian financial crisis, AsiaSat has announced reduced turnover of HK$376 million (pounds 30 million) for the first half of 1999, down 19 per...

SES revealed its half-year results (to June 30) on Monday. These showed buoyant growth in all areas, benefiting from its investment in AsiaSat last December. Revenues increase to Euro340.4 million...

The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) has made its first appearance in Europe at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. A number of manufacturers and developers including Thomson, Philips, Pioneer and Mindport...

The traditional autumn launch of new channels into the UK market has benefited both the UK’s leading uplink providers, BT Broadcast Services and NTL. BT will transmit Zee TV’s two...

UK programmer Flextech’s move from a modest profit (pounds 1.7 million for 1998) to a loss (pounds 2.9 million to June 1999), revealed the week before last, came about largely...

BSkyB moved quickly to settle a potentially damaging row over its proposed coverage of this year’s Ryder Cup golf tournament last week. The pay-TV operator had intended to put its...

Eutelsat is planning to use the development of more effective compression techniques to stimulate a new market in ultra-niche broadcasting. Director general Giuliano Berretta talked to Interspace about his expectations...

With the addition of four new channels, Middle East broadcaster Showtime is stepping up the pace in its attempts to break into new territories. On the eve of the platform’s...