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Nick Mitsis Don’t believe for a minute they are merely capacity brokers, and whatever you do, be sure to refuse the notion that global satellite operators are past their prime, […]

Peter J. Brown Hybrid wireless/satellite (HWS) networks can be deployed anywhere. Using an antenna on a tower or a building to create a secondary terrestrial wireless footprint within a satellite […]

Armand Musey XM Radio re-ceivers became available in Dallas and Phoenix in September, the service is rolling out in the southwest in October, and should be available throughout the entire […]

Theresa Foley A year ago, the excitement about streaming–a new Internet-based business that promised to eat up lots of satellite and terrestrial capacity and provide the basis for dozens of […]

Theresa Foley With first generation Ka-band satellite systems still on the ground and far from being a sure thing, the action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in August to […]

Gerry Oberst In late July, the U.K. government released a substantial report, two years in the making, to evaluate its funding for civil space activities. Although the United Kingdom has […]

More redundancies are taking place at CNBC Europe’s London headquarters, with some 10 staff believed to be immediately affected. The service has also suspended its hourly supply of Scandinavian business […]

Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 75 degreesE: LMI 1 D: Moscow’s TV6 has launched on 12610 MHz vertical, […]

By Toby Marshall The current shakeout among smaller UK digital TV channels, coupled with Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s decision to allow the BBC to go ahead with its plans to […]

By Chris Forrester British Telecom’s (BT’s) Broadcast Services division say that while they remain confident about filling capacity on new satellites planned for launch, heavily discounted tariffs by some operators […]

The French food channel Gourmet TV, whose backers include an unnamed Anglo-American company with interests in New York, has delayed its launch by four to six weeks due to the […]

by Chris Forrester Despite continuing DARS problems in the US, Alcatel and Worldspace have both confirmed their Euro-DAB project will continue with a provisional launch date of late 2004. The […]

Italian-based BluSat is the latest company to offer satellite-based broadband services aimed mainly at a business clientele. Already active in Italy and Spain – with plans to expand to Central […]

The uncertainty surrounding the future of VIVA ZWEI, the ailing sister service of the German music channel VIVA, has been ended by the news that the Cologne-based broadcaster will revamp […]

Chris Forrester Editor Eurosport is planning to export its sports, sports news and dot.com trio of services to American, Asian and Far Eastern broadcast markets. According to Vincent Cheupin the […]

by Chris Forrester With News Corp. suffering a share price slide of around 40 per cent in the last two months, it seems Rupert Murdoch’s aim of adding DirecTV to […]

According to the US Space Command (USSPACECOM), there are currently around 700 “active” satellites in orbit. Of these some 300 are operated by US civilian, commercial or military interests, with […]

The tragic attack on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon became more personal for Boeing employees when it was confirmed that three of their colleagues, all with Boeing’s […]

Interspace In-Depth Study Of European Satellite Activity, Compiled By Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D: Erotic channel Satisfaction Channel TV has […]

Demand for news prompts capacity scramble Mike Fallon Interspace Monitoring The tragic events of September 11 brought about the biggest ever satellite event when just about every TV broadcaster desperately […]

A wave of digital concentration is taking place in the international DTH market. Spain may be the next on the list, writes David Del Valle “United we stand”. This seems […]

Kids Gate, the children’s channel planned by Jochen Krohne, the former managing director of Munich-based commercial television channel TM3, has overcome its last regulatory hurdle. The federal anti media concentration […]

One of the repercussions of the Vivendi-Universal merger is that it is getting increasingly difficult to get detailed information on the activity of subsidiaries. Interspace did manage to glean one […]

National Geographic Channel has just launched on the French Canal Satellite Numérique, following the signature with Canal Satellite in July. This brings the doc channel to a total of 134 […]

US-based media company AOL Time Warner is to become a shareholder in Viva 2, the soon-to-be revamped sister service of German music channel Viva. According to a statement issued last […]

Discussions between News Corp and General Motors over the Hughes-owned DirecTV remained “difficult and inconclusive,” according to News Corp’s annual report issued last Friday. The report also showed that Rupert […]

Interspace’s In-Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2 & 3 D PTV World, PTV3 and PTV News […]

10,000 transponders in use by 2003 -Euroconsult guardedly optimistic Chris Bulloch Paris The Paris-based space consultancy Euroconsult kicked off its two-day conference on Financing for Satellite Communications and Broadcasting (August […]

Freed from its parent Intelsat, New Skies CEO Bob Ross tells Chris Forrester that he has an eye on acquisition New Skies Satellite has come a long way since its […]

Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract to build three satellites for GE American Communications, now in the final stages of being acquired by SES Astra. The new satellites will […]