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BSkyB is to grow its in-house production activities and investigate new and untried distribution channels such as the use of ADSL technology and UMTS wireless distribution, according to CEO Tony...

The subscribers of Swiss pay-TV channel Teleclub are to get free second generation d-box decoders. As part of the change in the transmission system from analogue PAL to digital MPEG-2/DVB,...

It is believed that a decision is close on the shape of Nat-Geo 2, the second channel National Geographic intends launching before year-end. Jerry Glover, who heads National Geographic’s UK...

Canal Plus is signing up 1,000 subscribers a day in Italy and plans to reach the break-even point by the end of 2000. Canal Plus-backed Telepi_ CEO Michel Thoulouze has...

Comsat shareholders have approved the company’s proposed merger with Lockheed Martin. Approximately 99 per cent of the total votes cast were in favour of the merger, representing over 74 per...

A major report from investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on Italy’s Mediaset has described the company as having considerable "value in diversity". The Morgan Stanley report said that Italian...

One of the TV channels granted only a temporary broadcasting permit during the recent round of terrestrial broadcast licensing for private TV channels by the Italian Ministry for Communications was...

MTV Italia is facing the prospect of losing its nationwide terrestrial TV distribution following the announcement by Italy’s Ministry of Communications that only eight private TV networks will have their...

A new Catholic cultural channel from Austria has started test transmissions on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 5 satellite at 13 degrees East. The channel, called K-TV, is using the German digital...

In a controversial move which will add yet more fuel the ongoing discussion about equal, non-discriminatory access to digital television in Germany, Kirch Group has begun to exchange the first...