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PREMIERE WORLD EXTENDS PROMOTIONAL D-BOX OFFER
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....
TOULOUSE: GALILEO AND EMERGING APPLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW
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...
GERMAN PAY-TV SERVICE EURO 1 DUE TO BE LICENSED
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,...
ART SEEKING FRESH INVESTORS
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...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
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...
NEWS BYTES...
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....
CHELLO SATELLITE SERVICE LAUNCHED IN CRACOW
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...
MURDOCH TRYING AGAIN OVER DIRECTV
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...