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Telecom Italia’s business unit Satellite Services, which lists Telespazio as its principal operative asset, has announced several changes to its management structure. While Salvatore Pinto, the ex-CEO of Olivetti-Wang Global […]

A Worldspace official said last week that the company plans to launch its third satellite on Ariane later this year. The craft will provide coverage over South and Central America. […]

Nobis TV, a new German teleshopping and product presentational channel, will launch in both analogue and digital on Astra (19.2 degrees East) on September 1. The service, which is based […]

BSkyB will delay introducing its second-generation PVR digibox until a ‘hard launch’ now scheduled for Christmas this year. This is the second delay for the Pace Micro Technology-built XTV box. […]

California-based middleware company OpenTV has bought struggling interactive specialist Static, which amongst other assets owns TV entertainment service Playjam. The deal sees OpenTV acquire all of Static’s shares in a […]

The future of horseracing consortium Go Racing is in serious doubt after the collapse of talks with the British Horseracing Board (BHB) over the supply of pre-race data. The Go […]

In line with our sister companies, Phillips Business Information and The Phillips Group, Phillips Global Media, publisher of Interspace, is rebranding as PBI Media. The name will be introduced across […]

In the week that Arianespace reported its first-ever loss in 20 years of operations, an industry report states that there is a capacity and manufacturing glut. “New satellites with transmission […]

by Kelly Holder The satellite industry traveled a difficult road during 2000 and into the first half of the new millennium. Through all the whisperings of mergers and consolidations, the […]

By James Careless When it comes to satellites and the Internet, the news is both bad and good. It’s bad for those offering interconnecting terrestrial Internet backbones, or other point-to-point […]

by Gerry Oberst Recent press reports started a furor about rumors of possible International Telecommunication Union (ITU) efforts to limit the length of time that a satellite company can occupy […]

by David Hartshorn Mythology is a source of great yarns, like Cassandra who was blessed with the ability to see the future, but who was cursed so that no one […]

by Armand Musey Throughout the next couple of years, satellite-based consumer services should make significant headway in the market for broadband connectivity. We expect demand will initially be strongest in […]

by Theresa Foley Cidera, iBeam, Net 36, Edgix, Netsat Express. A long list of promising names that last year looked like they’d be pioneers in a new sector of satellite-based […]

By Nick Mitsis Even though the global satellite manufacturing business continues to triumph throughout an increasingly competitive marketplace, industry executives remain focused on ways to defeat the impediments that stunt […]

By Peter J. Brown Last month we talked about how earth stations are in a state of flux with the projected growth in large facilities–Standard A earth stations–slowing considerably. At […]

UPC’s Polish digital DTH platform Wizja TV has started transmitting Telewizja Polska’s (TVP’s) two national channels TVP1 and TVP2. Although the move has been criticised by TVP – which was […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analog 100.5 degreesE: AsiaSat 2 D AsiaSat 2 capacity is to be used by […]

The number of two-way broadband Internet via satellite services keeps growing, with the latest new entrant being Galaxy 2000, operated by UK-based dealer Bentley Walker. The service which was recently […]

Does the French space agency CNES aim to supplant the ESA in developing new communications satellite technologies? Earlier this year, CNES evolved a plan (TCS-21, Technology for Communications by Satellite) […]

The first fruits of Pace Micro Technology’s acquisition of French manufacturer Xcom were revealed at Mediacast in London last month, and the much-heralded ‘basic’ receiver turned out to be anything […]

TV Travel Shop Germany launched on June 1 15.30 CET to a broad analogue DTH community in German-speaking Europe equivalent to more than 13 million homes. The channel, which transmits […]

In a move that would end the somehow absurd situation of transmitting free-to-air to analogue DTH viewers but not to digital homes, MTV 2 – The Pop Channel, MTV’s sister […]

QVC has resolved technical difficulties that have prevented the home shopping service from offering an impulse buy facility on its Sky Digital feed. In the past few days QVC has […]

“Viva is Germany’s No 1 music TV channel” according to a May 22 report from bankers Merrill Lynch, “and the company intends using its strong brand and experience to expand […]

As the votes are counted in the British election on June 7, DTT viewers will be able to plug into the BBC’s election database as part of an enhanced television […]

Investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) published a report on May 21 examining a portfolio of operators including BSkyB, Sogecable,UPC, NTL and Telewest. In it they suggested that Europe’s […]

Among NASA’s $767 million (E906 million) first-round Space Launch Initiative awards announced at last month’s Euroconsult Space Transportation Summit meeting was a grant of $135 million to Kistler Aerospace. This […]

Tunisia’s radio and television transmission authority has announced plans to set up four digital channels in and around the cities of Tunis, Bizerta and Nabeul by the end of this […]

The French technology outfit Thales has agreed to buy Orbital Sciences Corps. Sat-nav companies for a reported $70 million (E82.7 million). Thales will now be one of the world’s three […]