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Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 93.5 degreesE: Insat 2C A – Indian state television Doordarshan has launched a new channel for the Gujarat region of northern India. DD […]

Pace Micro Technology has signed an MoU with Microsoft to co-operate on the development of applications and enabling technologies for digital TV. Microsoft is to adopt Pace’s set top technology […]

DAL (Drake Automation) has won a contract to build new TV production and playout centres in Budapest and Prague for Wizja TV’s proposed Hungarian and Czech services, due to launch […]

Merlin Communications has entered into a partnership with the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) to launch a new service aimed at Asian satellite operators. Born out of 20 […]

During 1999 the European audience for digital DTH/SMATV television grew by 4.1 million homes, taking the total to 7.67 million, spread over 22 European countries, according to research compiled by […]

The regional channel RTVV (Radiotelevisio Valenciana) has announced that it will pull out of the Telefonica-led platform Via Digital in which it holds a 1.11 per cent stake. The channel […]

EuropeStar, the Loral Global Alliance partner, 51 per cent owned by Alcatel Spacecom, is confident of beating the year-end deadline (when its reservation of its German- registered slot at 45 […]

Tuesday 16 May is the day chosen by the US Bankruptcy Court in Wilmingon, Delaware, to discharge the former ICO Global Communications company from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, under which it […]

UPC, has delayed the official launch of its digital headend-in-the-sky (‘Euro HITS’) platform to September because of delays in completing the facility. While the platform itself has been operational for […]

From June subscribers to Canal Satellite will be able to have a second subscription card for an additional FFr40 (Eur6) a month. The cards will contain exactly the same rights […]

NEW launch TV4 is reaching 61 per cent of Polish television households since its launch on April 1. TV4, which has acquired the satellite and terrestrial feeds from Nasza TV […]

SPANISH digital satellite platform Via Digital, in partnership with Telefonica’s Internet portal Terra Networks, is carrying out tests with a view to launching a high-speed Internet access service through the […]

COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support […]

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later […]

LEADING French commercial TV network TF1 is seriously considering the possibility of buying a stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream. TF1’s interest in Stream was confirmed on May 3 by […]

TV2, Norway’s leading commercial operation, and so far the only private station with a national terrestrial licence, is about too part with its 16 per cent ownership of Canal Digital […]

NO NAME yet for the UK’s very own answer to AOL-Time Warner – the merged Telewest-Flextech. However, ever-reticent CEO Adam Singer has revealed that in his view the worst suggestion […]

Cambridge Industries, the Berkshire-based LNB manufacturer has been sold to the American owned dish manufacturer Channel Master for $35 million. The deal was put together by the 3i Technology Group, […]

Multichoice has confirmed it will start a digital service to sub-Saharan Africa using Eutelsat (Interspace 692). The service will launch late June 2000, following the deployment and testing of the […]

The Jordanian government has started fleshing out its plans to establish a free media zone in the Kingdom, officials said on May 4. Minister of Culture and Information Salih Qallab […]

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is in the midst of efforts to reform its operations and functioning. The Working Group on Reform, or WGR, will […]

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger In mid-March, Hughes was up significantly on speculation that News Corp. (NWS) was considering purchasing General Motors (GM) in order to obtain control of […]

by Peter J. Brown As the U.S. cable TV industry deploys high-speed, two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks, the use of satellite-based distribution is expanding despite the increasing presence of fiber. […]

By Robert Nelson Rain affects the transmission of an electromagnetic signal in three ways: (1) It attenuates the signal; (2) it increases the system noise temperature; and (3) it changes […]

By Theresa Foley The debate over bent pipe versus onboard processing is picking up steam as the dozen or so satellite broadband projects come closer to fruition. If William Shakespeare […]

by Clayton Mowry The thrill is gone. Our 15 minutes is over. Satellites are old news. According to the word on the street, the hype and excitement that surrounded the […]

by James Careless Everything comes with a price and that includes success. No one knows this better than the professionals in the satellite earth station market. It’s been experiencing explosive […]

AssureSat Inc., a company established to provide satellites in orbit to step in when there is a launch failure or a satellite already in service fails, has awarded Space Systems/Loral […]

Air travel soon will become more pleasurable. At least that is the hope of The Boeing Co. [BA] officials who, on April 27, unveiled a new business segment. Called Connexion […]

Business development executives seeking profits from the Internet-via-satellite marketplace need to focus on e-commerce opportunities in the right geographic locations if projections are accurate according to a new study. Currently, […]