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BALL'S CHANGES

Tony Ball, BSkyB’s new CEO, barely three months into the job, has said that he is making "significant changes" into each of BSkyB’s operating divisions. "There is now one marketing...

SATELLITE ON UP IN FRANCE

Eutelsat has published the results of a study of French satellite homes carried out on its behalf by Credome. At the end of June 1999 it found a total of...

ITALY, POLAND HIT CANAL

Canal Plus reported its half-year results on September 22. Chairman Pierre Lescure said the full year results would show an improvement in the aggregate contribution from overseas earnings, but that...

BSKYB OUTSPENDS ON ADS

BSkyB spent almost pounds 50 million on above the line advertising in the year May 1998-April 1999, according to data from MMS/Mediapolis, massively outspending rivals ONdigital whose expenditure came in...

PACE CONSUMERS WARM TO HOME SHOPPING

The UK’s Pace Micro Technology has released some findings from its latest survey into the attitudes of consumers to digital television, The Pace Report 2000. The results gave some comfort...

NOGGIN COULD GO ON NICK JR

Nickelodeon may launch pre-school channel Noggin as a block within Nick Jr channel in the UK, managing director Karen Flischel has told Interspace. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon itself will launch in India...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Key: A = Analog D= Digital 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. The Asian version of Sony Entertainment Television is occasionally testing on 3925 MHz horizontal in clear Pal....

RAI SIGNS DEALS FOR NEW CHANNELS

Italian public broadcaster RAI has signed several deals with leading Italian media groups for the launch of new digital TV channels for Telepiu’s digital platform D+. A preliminary accord was...

DIRECT TO AIR

DirecTV has announced DirecTV Airborne, an entertainment service for commercial airlines, to make its in-flight debut this autumn. Three airlines, Alaska Airlines, Legend Airlines and JetBlue Airways will carry the...

EUROSET TV READY FOR TAKE-OFF

Italy’s Mediaset is set to close negotiations with Germany’s Kirch Media by the end of October, with the official launch of their joint pan-European TV network, tentatively called Euroset, by...