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Services The demand for geostationary satellite launches will be flat during 2001, offering little relief to an industry besieged with stiff competition and increased pressure to lower prices. This opinion […]

Shayman ACeS Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Shayman Telecom and AceS International, have been given a letter of intent from the Indian government saying it will licence ACeS as […]

Rome’s appeals court has suspended the pre-emption clause written into contracts between Tele+ and the major clubs in Italy’s Serie A, thus ruling partly in favour of rival Stream, on […]

Einstein.tv, the science and technology TV-web channel, has gone live on Sky Digital (channel 576) and on the Internet. Marking the birth of the new station, the LG Electronics sponsored […]

As a follow-up to the Franco-African summit in Yaounde, Cameroon’s communication minister Jacques Fame Ndongo presided over the inauguration of satellite broadcasts by the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV). The […]

TV Travel Group has completed its first venture outside the UK and plans to launch TV Travel Shop in Germany after signing a joint venture agreement with German tour operator […]

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has said that the company may not proceed with the planned $40 billion initial public offering of its digital satellite TV conglomerate Sky Global Networks […]

The satellite launch of E4 is turning into an episode of Perry Mason. While test transmissions continue ahead of its January 18 launch we’re still waiting for Paul Drake to […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: A – Analogue D – Digital 75°E: LMI-1 A Israel’s IBA Channel 2 has launched on 12638MHz horizontal […]

Italian national broadcaster Retemia is set to change its name to Hot Italia and be majority owned by a German company. Retemia was founded at the beginning of the 1980s […]

France Telecom-owned satellite service provider Globecast says it will beam a new digital multiplex of channels to the UK from Eurobird, “and we may be taking extra capacity,” says CEO […]

Cologne-based Deutsche Welle (DW) will launch a new European bouquet on AsiaSat 2 on January 22. Dr Burkhard Nowotny, DW’s director of international distribution, said deals with four TV stations […]

Pace Micro Technology will launch its XTV integrated sat-box plus hard drive unit this quarter, according to CEO Malcolm Miller. He confirmed the highly specified box will not receive a […]

German television channel ARD has chosen Eutelsat to reach television viewers in southeast Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ARD Das Erste will broadcast in digital free-to-air via Widebeam […]

Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television Co Ltd launched its first North American information technology channel for Chinese communities in the region. The Phoenix IT channel, the first of the Chinese […]

Satellite-based video and data broadcaster PanAmSat Corp reported an 11 per cent drop in fourth quarter 2000 cash flow from operations as a result of higher expansion costs. PanAmSat, an […]

The now-traditional New Year annual press conference of the European Space Agency (ESA) was held in Paris on January 15. Director-general Antonio Rodota did his best to explain away the […]

After Inter, Milan and Roma, even Napoli FC is getting ready to launch a pay-TV channel dedicated to its football team. Milan inaugurated the series of Italian thematic football channels […]

Irdeto Access, a content protection company, and Canal+ Nederland, the pay-TV operator, continued their battle against pay-media piracy with a raid in The Netherlands that resulted in counterfeit smart cards […]

Jordan is to “merge” its two terrestrial services, Jordan 1 and 2, into its satellite channel (Jordan Space Channel). The announcement was made by Jordan TV board member Dr Adnan […]

A network of local TV channels covering Northern and Central Italy is planning to launch a satellite channel on the Tele+ digital platform. The Italia 7 Gold syndication was created […]

Arianespace’s CEO Jean-Marie Luton disclosed a loss in 2000 – the first time the company has made a loss in its 20-year history – of around E200 million (the exact […]

On the third attempt of last week Turksat 2A, which was previously called Eurasiasat 1, was launched into space from French Guyana and placed into orbit by an Ariane 4 […]

January 1st provides an excellent opportunity to examine events over the past 12 months and to look forward to what the coming year has to offer. The satellite industry has […]

by James Careless With 2001on the horizon, it’s time to look ahead to the first real year of the new Millennium (despite all the hype, 2000 was actually the final […]

by Peter J. Brown Over the next 24 months, Ka-band–@29 GHz–will be moving rapidly from its status today as a somewhat minor league player in the satellite-based Internet realm to […]

by Armand Musey Television is about to get more interesting. New technologies are being deployed to DBS set-top boxes everywhere that could change the average couch potato into a member […]

by Peter J. Brown Wars and natural disasters strike this planet far too frequently, leaving thousands of victims in their wakes. Satellite technology is vital to the mission of those […]

By Gerry Oberst This column has focused frequently on the backlog in registering satellites in the International Telecommunication Union master registry of orbital positions. Last April, we wrote about “Paper […]

By Clayton Mowry My son Nathaniel is only one-and-a-half years old but he’s already learned the concept of sharing. When his pal Lucy comes by to play, he knows he […]