Channel D, the commercial pay-TV service, which targets the German speaking communities across the world, aims to launch its 24-hour television channel on August 1. In an exclusive interview with...
German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World has extended its promotional offer in which the d-box, the set-top-box needed to receive the package, is sold for roughly half its regular price....
The second plenary, on the European Galileo satellite navigation programme, was held shortly after the successful second meeting of the EC’s Transport Council (see Interspace 717), where initial funding was...
Euro 1, a pay-TV service for foreigners living in Germany, is close to receiving its long-awaited broadcast licence. According to the local media authority of regional state Bremen, the channel,...
Middle East pay-TV is at another crossroads. In March both Showtime and Arab Radio & Television (ART) re-launched their digital bouquets, while Orbit is about to switch from its so-called...
Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – A new digital platform for the...
Russia’s NTV is now wholly under new management, headed by Boris Jordan. He claims that some $750 million is unaccountably “missing” from the station’s total debt burden of $1.6 billion....
Having a second bite at the same cherry, the EU Transport Council met in Luxembourg three weeks ago to complete the job it botched late last December. Then, at a...
UPC Polska has launched its Internet access service ‘chello satelitarne’ to inhabitants of Cracow via the Polish satellite digital package of Wizja TV. Cracow is Poland’s third city to start...
Rupert Murdoch was scheduled to again meet the directors of Hughes Electronics on Monday April 23 to press his suit for DirecTV. Murdoch’s plan is to slot DirecTV into his...