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Scandinavian Broadcasting System’s (SBS) $615 million takeover of troubled Central European Media Enterprises (CME) hit the buffers last week. SBS’ COO Woody Knight said SBS had watched with increasing concern […]

Italy’s Mediaset is set to close negotiations with Germany’s Kirch Media by the end of October, with the official launch of their joint pan-European TV network, tentatively called Euroset, by […]

Italian public broadcaster RAI has signed several deals with leading Italian media groups for the launch of new digital TV channels for Telepiu’s digital platform D+. A preliminary accord was […]

Nickelodeon may launch pre-school channel Noggin as a block within Nick Jr channel in the UK, managing director Karen Flischel has told Interspace. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon itself will launch in India […]

Jerry Glover, managing director of National Geographic Channel Europe, has left the company to become commercial director at Yahoo! Europe. He is replaced by veteran channel specialist John O’Loan, who […]

Lockheed Martin can proceed with its planned 49 per cent acquisition of satellite communications company Comsat, the Federal Communications Commission confirmed last week. The US Justice Department has now also […]

One of a pair of Yamal-100 telecommunications satellites launched from Kazakhstan on September 7 has failed to make contact with the ground, according to its project engineers. The craft were […]

The long-awaited acquisition of General Instrument (GI) was concluded last week when Motorola absorbed the box-making company in a stock swap that sees GI shareholders take a 17 per cent […]

Slovakian channels Luna TV and NASA TV will be added to Telenor Satellite’s Central and Eastern European broadcasting platform. Both will join Telenor’s Intelsat 707 platform later this year. Norway-based […]

Key: D=Digital A=Analog 76.5 degrees E: Apstar-2R D. Tibet TV, which uses two streams at 12376 MHz vertical to relay the two domestic TV channels, has undergone some changes effective […]

With the addition of four new channels, Middle East broadcaster Showtime is stepping up the pace in its attempts to break into new territories. On the eve of the platform’s […]

Eutelsat is planning to use the development of more effective compression techniques to stimulate a new market in ultra-niche broadcasting. Director general Giuliano Berretta talked to Interspace about his expectations […]

BSkyB moved quickly to settle a potentially damaging row over its proposed coverage of this year’s Ryder Cup golf tournament last week. The pay-TV operator had intended to put its […]

The traditional autumn launch of new channels into the UK market has benefited both the UK’s leading uplink providers, BT Broadcast Services and NTL. BT will transmit Zee TV’s two […]

The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) has made its first appearance in Europe at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. A number of manufacturers and developers including Thomson, Philips, Pioneer and Mindport […]

SES revealed its half-year results (to June 30) on Monday. These showed buoyant growth in all areas, benefiting from its investment in AsiaSat last December. Revenues increase to Euro340.4 million […]

Still suffering from the aftershocks of the Asian financial crisis, AsiaSat has announced reduced turnover of HK$376 million (pounds 30 million) for the first half of 1999, down 19 per […]

Sharp contrasts between the viewing patterns of DF1 subscribers compared to their Premiere counterparts have emerged ahead of the merger between the two platforms. The information was revealed by Premiere […]

BBC Prime has managed to retain direct-to-home satellite capacity in the German market after reaching a new agreement with the Premiere World platform. The entertainment channel had, like a number […]

Fifty editorial and production staff will be lost as a result of schedule changes on BBC World, the BBC’s flagship overseas news channel. Out will go BBC World’s long-form The […]

French digital satellite platform TPS has announced details of how it will use the hard disk storage system that is to be built into its set-top boxes by receiver manufacturer […]

Discovery Network Europe and Russia’s NTV Plus have officially confirmed their joint plans for the broadcasting of three digital showcase channels in the territory of Russia, the CIS countries and […]

Satellite builders are facing mounting criticism about a falling off in quality in the wake of problems such as those currently faced by Matra Marconi Space (MMS). However, sources within […]

UK programmer Flextech’s move from a modest profit (pounds 1.7 million for 1998) to a loss (pounds 2.9 million to June 1999), revealed the week before last, came about largely […]

by Katie McConnell Five years ago, satellite-based distance education appeared to be a minor marketplace barely being pursued by the satellite industry. Today, that scenario has changed. With the worldwide […]

by Robert N. Wold It happened 15 years ago, the same year we first tensed up in the motion picture, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and also sat […]

by Robert A. Nelson The antenna is the most visible part of the satellite communication system. The antenna transmits and receives the modulated carrier signal at the radio frequency (RF) […]

by James Careless When it comes to the global VSAT market, the United States and Europe dominate. In fact, according to Comsys’ 1999 VSAT Report, the United States accounted for […]

by Rob Fernandez As the computing industry continues to evolve at a break-neck pace, with no signs of slowing anytime soon, the satellite industry is also experiencing a golden age […]

by Theresa Foley Interactive TV over satellite will be delivered to U.S. homes this year for the first time as Echostar and DirecTV race into the multimedia services arena and […]