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Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting has responded to charges from Hong Kong’s Wharf Cable that the TVB-owned company has a monopoly on the pay-TV market. General manager Stanley Tang See-tin told the...

Telenor is to introduce its long awaited reshuffle of frequencies at its One degree West slot on September 5, 2000. The change will make way for new channels and services,...

After 44 years in the media business, Leo Kirch has finally managed to make his long term dream come true: becoming the biggest player in Germany’s competitive free-to-air television market....

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat-2E D – Doordarshan’s DD1 General Hindi service is available...

UK teleport operator Kingston TLI has won the contract to beam the B4U movie channel to the Middle East. B4U stands for Bollywood For You; Bollywood is the popular name...

German general interest channels Sat 1, Pro 7 and Kabel 1 will get new managing directors after the planned unification of Sat 1 and Pro Sieben Media. According to a...

Financially troubled Globalstar took the unusual step of deliberately defaulting on a $250 million bank credit line to get an additional six months of cash for its faltering satellite phone...

German news channel n-tv majority owned by CNN/Time Warner, announced improved financial figures at a press conference in Berlin. According to managing director Kenneth Jautz, 2000 marks a business year...

By Gerry Oberst This column noted in January that the European Union (EU) is in the midst of reviewing and restructuring its entire telecommunications regulatory structure, in the so-called “1999...

By Theresa Foley By year end, the satellite industry will know whether 2000 will be remembered as the launching point for massive new satellite broadband services, or as the second...