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EUTELSAT WINS MULTICHOICE AFRICA
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...
CHANNEL MASTER BUYS CAMBRIDGE
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,...
TELEWEST-FLEXTECH AIMS TO BE 'BROADBANDCASTER
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...
TV2 NORWAY SELLS CANAL DIGITAL SHARE
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...
TF1 CONSIDERS BUYING STREAM STAKE
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...
AUSSIES PLAN LAUNCH SITE
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...
TVP BLOCKS POLSAT-EURONEWS VENTURE
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...
VIA DIGITAL TESTS INTERNET ACCESS
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...
ENCOURAGING START FOR POLAND'S TV4
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...
VIEWING TWO CHANNELS ON CANAL SATELLITE APPROVED
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...