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Sports TV channel Galaxie Sport has been granted a satellite licence to operate in the Czech Republic. The channel should launch in May and is already in talks with cable […]

WorldSpace has announced that Andy Raswork is to become its new COO. He will report directly to WorldSpace CEO Noah Samara. Prior to joining WorldSpace, Raswork was president and CEO […]

MTV has taken a huge step forward with its broadband strategy by announcing that the MTV Live channel, its 24-hour service made for broadband technology, is getting set for launch […]

Arianespace is getting set to launch the Astra 3A satellite on March 28. While hoping for another successful launch, the recent reliability problems and delays in terms of the delivery […]

Burma’s Myawady Television began using Indonesia’s Palapa C2 satellite March 1, a change which will save the company about $400,000 a year, according to the broadcaster. The channel has been […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C D – A mass exodus of channels has occurred here as most of the activity transfers to the new […]

No broadcaster needs reminding about how tough it was in 2001. Ad bookings were already under considerable pressure prior to Sept. 11. Then, on that awful day, the bottom just […]

Discovery Networks Europe has secured a five-year deal for direct-to-home (DTH) digital distribution in Poland with Nowa Cyfra Plus, the pay-TV broadcaster that resulted from the merger of Cyfra Plus […]

The satellite manufacturing industry has been dogged in recent months by execution problems, leading many manufacturers to take a long, hard look at themselves to improve quality of services. Randy […]

Zee Telefilms’ (ZTL) board has completed a major corporate restructuring involving some 11 broadcasting/multimedia subsidiaries, including E-connect India, Zee Multimedia Worldwide, BVI and Asia TV, USA will cease to exist. […]

All India Radio (AIR) started transmissions last month of its digital satellite radio service for the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, according to local reports. “Though AIR has been running […]

Sports broadcaster ESPN has signed a play-out contract with Kingston inmedia for its new ESPN Classic Sport channel. It is scheduled to launch this month, and will immediately have carriage […]

Africa may be a market that is well-suited to satellite services, but it still a tough market to crack. This was the message coming out of a session at PBI […]

The economic instability in Argentina should not be used as a barometer for the region. This was the message coming from leading speakers at the Latin America session at PBI […]

By David Hartshorn For anyone puzzled by the sharp increase in water towers throughout Africa in recent months, this correspondent is pleased to divulge what’s driving thirst on the continent: […]

By Armand Musey As of mid-January, shares of all three DBS companies had risen an average of 40 percent from their post-September 11th lows and were approaching our pre-merger-announcement, 2002 […]

By Nick Mitsis The global satellite manufacturing marketplace continues to be a highly competitive business. Thinner margins and shorter production cycles are often cited as the cause of a recent […]

An Interview With Romain Bausch By Cynthia Boeke For many years, Intelsat, and more recently Panamsat, has enjoyed top billing as the”world’s largest satellite operator.” Last year, however, another company […]

By James Careless “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.” In modern English, what this old cliché means is that something good usually comes out of every tragedy. In […]

By Gerry Oberst The satellite sector seems to rely on a vast library of arcane terms and acronyms that complicate the entire area and freeze out newcomers. Little-known groups at […]

By Jimmy Schaeffler Say what you will about competition, it works. Clearly, there can be no better example of competition at work than the growth of the Direct Broadcast Satellite […]

By Theresa Foley The ranks of bankers and finance professionals involved in the satellite industry have multiplied in the last few years to match the need for investment to build […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 80 degreesE: Express 6A D: Russia’s TV Tsentr can be found on two […]

Valentine’s Day represented a special day for the digital audio radio service (DARS) sector with a somewhat soft marketing launch of Sirius’ system in Phoenix, Houston, Denver and Jackson, Miss.. […]

Aramiska’s assault on the continental European broadband satellite markets is set to begin in earnest. The operator, which is already selling satellite broadband services in the UK, is getting ready […]

Debt-strapped satellite, transmission and cable company NTL is quitting Australia, selling out its 578 towers to Macquarie Bank for A$850 million (US$439 million) in cash. NTL bought Australia’s National Transmission […]

Reports are emerging that Chinese authorities are cracking down on the illegal use of satellite dishes. Shanghai is a particular focus of attention. Dish-ownership is tightly controlled and so-called “work […]

Call for the building and commercialisation of a new satellite for Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus emerged from a ministerial meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Feb. 14. According to a memorandum […]

Cyfra+ has unveiled its new channel line-up in Poland. The “new” Cyfra+ (called Nowa Cyfra+ in Polish) is a combination between the old Cyfra+ and UPC’s satellite platforms. It is […]

Dear Subscriber: You are invited to attend an exclusive teleseminar presented by PBI Media on “The Tauzin-Dingell Bill: What It Means to You and Your Company,” Feb. 25, 1:30-3 p.m. […]