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by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Although the next ITU world radiocommunication conference is not scheduled until 2000, the Conference Preparatory Meeting or "CPM" for WRC-2000 is going on late this...

by Robert A. Nelson On a recent trip to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I flew from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles on a new Boeing 747-400 airplane. The geographical...

by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger According to market research firm Analysys, by 2012 the worldwide broadband, or bandwidth-on- demand, market is expected to total $990 billion (versus about $195...

Investment analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter say they expect BSkyB to achieve total digital sales of 2.4 million by the end of December. BSkyB’s net additions in the last...

An alliance made up of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Telecom Italia and German media magnate Leo Kirch may yet be the white knight that will save fledgling Italian TV network...

A&E’s History Channel is expected shortly to confirm three new distribution agreements for the Asian and Far East region. Whitney Goit, executive vice president, A&E TV Networks, said the three...

German media company Pro Sieben Group managed to increase turnover and profit during the first nine months of this year. Profit before tax climbed by DM10.3 million (Euro5.3 million) to...

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported a record 120 per cent increase in subscribers to its digital platform for June. At the same time, Stream has announced that Corrado Sciolla...

The latest figures from Canal Plus reveal a total of 12.789 million pay TV subscribers in Europe as of September 30, an increase of 17 per cent over the previous...

The satellite TV channel of Montenegro’s public broadcaster RTV Crna Gora has switched to a 24-hour format in clear MPEG-2. TV Montenegro will continue to broadcast in analogue five hours...