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American sports network ESPN is to pull out of Eurosport with the intention of developing its own brand in Europe. The new shareholder structure of Eurosport International sees Canal+ holding […]

RaiSat, the Italian public broadcasters subsiduary for digital television and thematic channels, has closed its first financial year in the black. During a recent shareholder meeting, RaiSat’s administrative council announced […]

A rush of press releases has again greeted the latest TV audience figures from the European Media Survey, the only pan-European study covering international broadcasters. Each broadcaster is claiming to […]

Beta Research, the subsidiary of German media company Kirch Group responsible for the d-box technology, has started to develop the third generation of the digital set-top-box. According to Gerrit Huy, […]

Leading Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has registered encouraging first quarter results for 2000 thanks in part to an alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group. The financial results of the Milan-based TV […]

Italian public broadcaster RAI is leading a project for the launch of a multilingual and multicultural satellite TV channel for countries in the Mediterranean region. At a meeting of the […]

The first station from Discovery Channel has appeared in the Polish Cyfra+ package. Discovery Civilisation made its debut on May 23 following pressure from subscribers anxious to be able to […]

Iridium’s bankruptcy is still having reverberations. Iridium’s creditors have begun their own claims against Motorola, which they allege, created the system and has failed in its legal duties to maintain […]

It is now almost two weeks since New ICO, formerly ICO Global Communi-cations, announced on May 17 that it had emerged from US Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, following a decision […]

The Big News at Galileo Industries inaugural press conference at its new Brussels office (belonging to Finmeccanica) on May 25 happened over three weeks earlier in Edinburgh. There, Nasa Administrator […]

Kingston TLI, the satellite services arm of the Kingston Communications Group, is adding two new C-Band earth stations for Indian Ocean coverage. This will triple the number of earth stations […]

BSkyB has signed a deal with Exel, creating a new distribution centre, as the broadcaster continues to attempt to keep pace with the demand for digital upgrades. The new national […]

As the Boeing Co.’s [BA] Connexion By Boeing venture to provide satellite-based services to airline passengers gears up for its 2001 North American rollout (SBN, May 10), executives at Airbus […]

Working with the government on any project, naturally, poses unique challenges to commercial business developers. But after closely working with the U.S. Air Force for eight months, executives at TRW […]

Inmarsat awarded its fourth-generation (I-4) satellite contract – for three satellites worth about $700 million – to newly formed Astrium, previously Matra Marconi Space. The satellites will be able to […]

A Canadian proposal to protect emissions into the GPS bands by mobile satellite services (MSS) operating in adjacent bands came as a surprise to the U.S. delegation last week at […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a $9.6 million contract to AlliedSignal Technical Services Corp., for engineering services to support the agency’s environmental satellites. The services will be […]

A Boeing Co. [BA] Delta 2 launcher has replaced one of the first U.S Global Positioning System satellites, which was launched aboard another Delta rocket 11 years ago. The launch […]

Few entrepreneurs have succeeded in achieving the full potential of commercial space. In the wake of the Mars mission and Iridium LLC failures, industry pioneers have realized the right combination […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] last week absorbed its latest loss when it reported first quarter 2000 earnings, but company officials said that a shift to conservative accounting principles deepened the […]

While many are looking to the satellite industry to fill the need for last mile distribution of Internet content, satellites may serve a greater role in the Internet space. According […]

Inmarsat awarded its fourth-generation (I-4) satellite contract – for three satellites worth about $700 million – to Astrium, previously Matra Marconi Space. The satellites will be able to communicate with […]

Critics of Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] have one less thing to complain about, at least in the United States, as Globalstar USA announced that customers now will be able to roam […]

The Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) subsidiary of ATC Teleports Inc. has purchased the C-band satellite communications assets of a competitor, CruisePhone, which is in financial reorganization under the U.S. Bankruptcy […]

Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., announced that it will work with Intel Internet Media Services to optimize the distribution, performance and scalability of streaming content via the Internet. Intel explained […]

Tachyon Inc., which specializes in high-performance, two-way satellite connections for Internet service providers, has chosen five companies as its first resale partners. The five ISPs are: Knoware, an ISP in […]

Canal+ is reporting consolidated revenues of Eur927 million for the first quarter of 2000, representing a gain of 23.6 per cent from the same period in 1999. For the first […]

The Prague District Commercial Court has ruled that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its directly-owned subsidiary CNTS, along with the licence holder CET21 of the TV Nova broadcasting network, […]

The studios of Media Most’s NTV+ were ‘occupied’ by members of Russia’s tax police on May 16, and just four days after President Putin was elected. The timing was unfortunate […]

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Bulgarian TV (BTV) the first-ever private nationwide TV broadcaster in the country, will go on air June 1, initially for just two hours a day. The […]