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After 44 years in the media business, Leo Kirch has finally managed to make his long term dream come true: becoming the biggest player in Germany’s competitive free-to-air television market. […]

Telenor is to introduce its long awaited reshuffle of frequencies at its One degree West slot on September 5, 2000. The change will make way for new channels and services, […]

Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting has responded to charges from Hong Kong’s Wharf Cable that the TVB-owned company has a monopoly on the pay-TV market. General manager Stanley Tang See-tin told the […]

In a move that observers are describing as an “almost desperate final attempt to win subscribers”, German media company Kirch-Group has decided to reduce the subscription fee sports fans have […]

Hispasat’s Board of Directors has approved the construction of a new satellite, Hispasat 1D which will be built by Alcatel Space Industries, and launched by International Launch Services in the […]

A Geneva court has ruled that @Entertainment, the former owner of the Wizja TV digital satellite platform should pay a $10 million indemnity to Cyfra+ the Canal+ Polish affiliate. Two […]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is one of a group of private investors involved in a $1 billion refinancing of London-based ICI, the bankrupt LEO outfit that was taken under the […]

NTV-Plus, Russia’s DTH satellite pay-TV system, has begun transmitting from Eutelsat’s W4 satellite at 36 degrees East. A total of 19 transponders on W4 are switched into a high-power fixed […]

SES-Astra has signed up Kokua Communications as its first European Ka-Band return path client. SES says there are other major announcements pending. The deal calls for Kokua to use capacity […]

Despite official announcements that BSkyB will not shutdown its analogue service until 2001 it is now clear that Sky is well underway in a gradual switch-off. The latest announcement is […]

Scandinavian Pay-TV operator Viasat is taking additional capacity on NSAB’s Sirius at 5 degrees East to simultaneously launch a digital TV platform in the Baltic region alongside the already announced […]

By Peter Brown Well-established VSAT hardware vendors, satellite operators and other satellite solution providers are starting to roll out a long list of new satellite-based Internet access platforms and services […]

By Clayton Mowry Rocket launches, as well as the risks they convey, are part of most satellite executives’ daily lives. Without these expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), we’d have no way […]

By James Careless If there’s something most satellite service providers don’t worry about it’s hackers. Small wonder, says Simon Bull, senior consultant at Comsys, the U.K.-based publisher of the annual […]

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger During an investor meeting held in New York on May 16th, Loral informed investors and analysts of the company’s progress since the end of […]

By Theresa Foley By year end, the satellite industry will know whether 2000 will be remembered as the launching point for massive new satellite broadband services, or as the second […]

By Gerry Oberst This column noted in January that the European Union (EU) is in the midst of reviewing and restructuring its entire telecommunications regulatory structure, in the so-called “1999 […]

Those entrepreneurs finalizing business plans in hopes of successfully entering the broadband market may want to pay close attention to the recent lesson PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] learned when the FCC […]

MultiChoice, a South African supplier of pay-TV programming to 44 countries in Africa and adjacent islands, has leased three transponders on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite, which went into service on July […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] won a contract to launch Canada’s Radarsat 2 satellite aboard a Delta 2 rocket in three years. The launch is planned for April 2003, from Vandenberg […]

The much-delayed Russian-built Zvezda service module finally may reach the International Space Station (ISS) in a few weeks. Following a General Designer’s Review meeting in Moscow June 26, NASA and […]

NASA officials were all smiles June 30 when its next-generation of communications satellites successfully reached orbit aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS), The Atlas 2A […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] plans to eliminate the jobs of up to 900 workers who work on the Delta launchers and the C-17 military cargo plane in Huntington Beach, Calif., […]

Doing business in the mobile satellite sector continues to be a challenging feat. The latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system to face a cash squeeze is Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB], the […]

Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology, […]

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The […]

Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4 […]

The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution, […]

Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West […]

Enterprise Value And Hot Spot Capability One fantastic phenomenon of the turbulent stock market is the huge enterprise value of Globalstar L.P [GSTRF] relative to other satellite programs. During May, […]