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In a letter sent to the Belgian government, the European Commission urged Belgium to abolish all taxes levied on satellite dishes and to refund any taxes already paid. It estimates...

Canal+ Cyfrowy has been ordered to stop transmitting the signals of commercial broadcasters Polsat and Nasza TV. Separately, Polsat must also cease transmitting programming made by public broadcaster TVP, according...

The number of German-language radio services on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) continues to grow. Last Friday at 1300 CET BIG FM, the new commercial youth radio station...

Alongside the fun and games of the next stage of the UK’s third-generation cellular licence auction, next week also sees an even longer bidding and negotiation process commence for the...

Leading Italian terrestrial commercial broadcaster Mediaset has launched an action movie channel called Duel TV and a comedy channel called Comedy Life on Stream’s digital satellite platform. The launch of...

Gameplay, the games marketing company, has reported that a remarkable 26 per cent of its total sales between November and January were through Open… . This means that from a...

The merger task force of the European Commission has finally approved the creation of Astrium, initially in the form of a merger of the space activities of Matra Marconi Space...

Italian TV and film conglomerate Cecchi Gori Group (CGG) is expected to sell its 18 per cent stake share in pay-TV operator Stream and seek an alliance with Italian state...

French digital pay-TV operator TPS has launched an e-mail service for its subscribers, reports our sister publication Inside Digital TV. The service differs in several ways from the one introduced...

Thematic audio service Music Choice will shortly add extra functionality to its digital satellite service. For Sky Digital from this June it will have in place extra interactivity, according to...