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INTERNET FROM THE SKY
As the latest Internet-via-satellite service skyDSL launches into full operation, Interspace surveys the range of offerings showcased at the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin… Berlin-based multimedia company Strato Medien AG launched...
DAIMLERCHRYSLER CHANNEL ON AIR
The worldwide corporate business channel from American-German automobile company DaimlerChrysler launched on September 1 at 1100 CET. The service, called DCTV, is the worldis first global TV channel for employees...
DISCOVERY HEADS FOR THE NORTH
Following its recent carriage agreement with Media Mostis NTV service in Russia, Discovery Networks Europe is close to signing a carriage agreement for three of its digital ëshowcasei channels in...
PROTON RESTARTS WITH YAMAL
Proton launches have recommenced from Baikonur. A Proton-K launched a the first two Yamal-100 craft on the night of September 5/6, following the reported payments last week of back rent...
REN-TV GOES ON SATELLITE
On September 6 Moscow-based REN-TV, one of the biggest private Russian channels, started broadcasting via Gorizont-43 at 40 degrees East using four transponders which should help to increase a number...
BSKYB TAKES STAKE IN LEEDS UNITED
BSkyB has taken a 9 per cent stake in Leeds United FC for Pounds 14 million. The deal will allow BSkyB to act as exclusive media agent for Leeds Sporting,...
BIS SCRAPPED
Marc Tessier, the recently appointed head of France Television, said that plans to start a time shifted version of terrestrial channel France 2, France 2 Bis, have been abandoned, when...
ZDF TO REMAIN ON HOT BIRD 5
In a decision which will make Eutelsatis Hot Bird position at 13 degrees East more popular in German-speaking Europe, German public broadcaster ZDF has announced it plans to remain on...
TPS LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
Jacques Espinasse, the Director General of TPS, said that new subscriptions over the summer were up 25 per cent compared to the same period last year, the same figure cited...
STUDIO UNIVERSAL LAUNCHED IN GERMANY
Studio Universal, the second German-language channel operated by Universal after 13th Street, launched, as planned, on 1 September at 2200 CET with Pulp Fiction. The pay-TV channel, part of DF1,...